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Kempinski Hotels S.A. is a hotel group. Kempinski Hotels, the trading name for Kempinski Hotels S.A., is an independent Swiss delisted S.A., which is involved in a number of luxury hotel and hospitality related businesses, including conference, catering and hotel supplies. Kempinski Hotels now owns and runs an international portfolio of 62 hotels. A further 43 hotels are either under final development or construction in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia. Today, Kempinski is majority owned by the Crown Property Bureau of Thailand. Kempinski is also a Member of the Global Hotel Alliance with currently comprises Anantara, Cham, Dusit, Kempinski, Landis, Leela, Marco Polo, Omni and Pan Pacific, encompassing 160 upscale, luxury, and low-scale hotels with over 46,000 rooms in 41 different countries. The CEO of Kempinski is Reto Witwer is a Swiss National (2008). In 1897, the Hotelbetriebs-Aktiengesellschaft Hotel management company was established in Berlin, marking the historical beginning of Kempinski Hotels as we know it today. At the turn of the century, the first grand hotels were built in Germany's largest cities and several of these belonged to the Hotelbetriebs-Aktiengesellschaft when it was founded. At about the same time, M. Kempinski & Co. was founded by Berthold Kempinski in Berlin and developed in parallel, finally being acquired by the Hotelbetriebs-Aktiengesellschaft in 1953. Berthold Kempinski was born on October 10, 1843, in Raschkow in Posen (Poznan) then part of Prussia, now in Poland. He was one of two sons. In 1862, his brother, Moritz, opened a specialist wine shop in Breslau (Wroclaw), also now in Poland, called M. Kempinski & Co, which Berthold joined two years later. They worked hard at their enterprise together and ten years later, in 1872, Berthold and his wife, Helene, moved to Berlin and opened a wine shop under the same name, which they soon expanded into a restaurant with rooms. Berthold was ambitious and, seeing his new venture was proving successful, wanted to expand even further. He searched for a suitable location and, in 1889, he opened a restaurant in the Leipziger Strasse with several dining rooms, the biggest restaurant in Berlin at this time.
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