Nordic Choice Hotels


Nordic Choice Hotels is one of the largest hotel companies in Scandinavia with 200 hotels in Scandinavia and the Baltics and over 16,500 employees.
The Norwegian company is 100% owned by Petter Stordalen through his company Strawberry Group. In 2006 Torgeir Silseth became CEO for the Nordic Choice Hotels Group.
Nordic Choice Hotels is a franchisee of Choice Hotels International. The franchise agreement gives the company the right to use three brands and their umbrella brands. Apart from that, Nordic Choice Hotels is in most aspects run independently from Choice International.

Brands

The hotels are marketed under four brands:
Nordic Choice Hotels was established in Norway 1990 as Choice Hotels Scandinavia. During 1994 the company signed a franchise agreement with Choice Hotels International that gave them the right to market its hotels as Comfort, Clarion and Quality hotels. The company was listed at the Oslo stock exchange in 1997, but was lifted in 2005 when Home Invest bought 100% of the stock.