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The Institute functions under the management the Empee Group, a well established Corporate with revenues of over Rs.1000 Crores founded by Mr.M.P.Purushothaman in the early 1970s. Mr.M.P.Purushothaman who is currently the Chairman of the Chairman the Group started with a chain of restaurants in Chennai, Tamilnadu before diversifying into hotels, manufacture of alcoholic beverages and sugar production. Today the group's core businesses include alcoholic beverages, sugar and chemicals, hospitality, property development and power generation. |
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This together with the Chairman. Mr.M.P.Purushothaman's long standing association with the Federation of Hotels and Restaurants Association of India (FHRAI), the apex hospitality trade Association, has given Empee a strong presence in the Hospitality Segment.
Empee Currently operates two hotels in Chennai in the three star categories. The Grand Orient and New Victoria Hotel. A 100 room business hotel in Sriperambudur, near Chennai and a 200 room 5 star properties in Whitefield, Bangalore are scheduled for opening in a 2010-2011. The Empee Group has ambitious plans to open business hotels across key metros and mini metros in the South over the next 5 years. All these projects are now in the planning stage and construction is expected to commence in early 2009.
An exclusive tie-up with the Hilton Hotels Corporation means that the first Hilton property in the South will be a 253 room property at Ekaduthangal, Guindy, close to Chennai Airport. This hotel will be expanded to 352 rooms thereafter and is expected to be operational during December 2008.
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