A Chinese insurance company is buying one New York's most glamorous hotels – the Waldorf Astoria inmidtown Manhattan.
中国一家保险公司正出资收购纽约市最奢华的酒店——位于曼哈顿市中心区的华尔道夫酒店。
Anbang Insurance Group Co Ltd is purchasingthe Waldorf for $1.95bn from a subsidiary of Hilton Worldwide Holdings ng will pay Hilton a $100m deposit, and is expected to pay off the hotel's$525m mortgage as part of the deal. Hilton will continue to manage the hotelfor the next 100 years.
安邦保险公司正出资19.5亿美元收购希尔顿全球控股有限公司旗下的华尔道夫酒店。 安邦保险公司将支付给希尔顿公司1亿美元的保证金，作为交易的一部分，安邦保险公司还将承担酒店5.25亿美元的抵押贷款。未来一百年，希尔顿仍将是这家酒店的管理者。“We are very excited to be enteringinto this long-term relationship with Anbang, which will ensure thatthe Waldorf Astoria New York represents the brand's world-class standards forgenerations to come,” said Christopher J Nassetta, Hilton Worldwide CEO.
希尔顿全球酒店集团首席执行官ChristopherJ Nassetta 说，“我们很高兴与安邦保险公司建立长期合作关系，这将保证纽约华尔道夫酒店长久地代表该品牌的世界级水准”
Hilton purchased the Waldorf in 1949. In December,Hilton raised $2.35bn in the largest ever initial public offering by a hotelcompany. The majority of Hilton is now owned by Blackstone Group LP, a privateequity firm. Hilton plans to use cash from the Waldorf's sale to buy morehotels across the US,according to a report by Bloomberg.
希尔顿于1949年收购了华尔道夫酒店。去年12月份，希尔顿公司筹集到23.5亿美元资金，是酒店行业有史以来最大规模的首次公开募股。希尔顿公司的大部分股份现在由私人股本公司黑石集团持有。据彭博社的一篇报道，希尔顿公司计划用出售华尔道夫酒店获得的资金收购美国更多的酒店。Closing is scheduled for New Year's Eve,though it could take until 31 March 2015 to finalize the sale.
收盘日期预定在元旦前夕，虽然该公司需要到2015年3月31日才能完成出售。Andang is a Beijing-based life, health andproperty insurance company with 20 million customers and 30,000 employees,according to a Hilton press release. The company has $113bn in assets.
据希尔顿公司发布的新闻，安邦保险公司是一家位于北京的生命健康财产保险公司，该公司拥有2000万客户和3万名员工。该公司拥有1130亿美元资产。More than 4,200 properties in 93 countriesare under the Hilton company's control. Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts isa subsidiary of Hilton that owns the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. The subsidiary owns another 27 hotelsaround the world.
希尔顿公司在93个国家拥有4200多处房产。华尔道夫酒店及度假村是希尔顿公司集团旗下的酒店，该公司控制着纽约市的华尔道夫酒店，而华尔道夫酒店在世界各地还拥有27家酒店。