Video: IHG CEO Says 'We're Big Enough'

Deanna Ting

May 2nd, 2017 at 1:30 AM EDT

Photo Caption: IHG CEO Richard Solomons was interviewed at the first annual Skift Forum Europe. Skift

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IHG CEO Richard Solomons isn't interested in scale for scale's sake.

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) CEO Richard Solomons may have started the current wave of consolidation we're seeing in the hospitality sector when IHG announced its $430 million purchase of boutique hotel pioneer Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants in 2014, but he isn't one to follow the crowd. "We're big enough," Solomons told Skift CEO and Founder Rafat Ali while being interviewed on stage that first annual

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