BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
OFFICE MANAGEMENT
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Ray Schultz
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J.W. Marriott and J.W. Marriott Jr.
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William Warldorf Astor and Jacob Astor IV
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Conrad Hilton
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Detailed explanation-1: -Marriott (1900 – 1985) founded his hotel empire in 1957 with the Twin Bridges Marriott Motor Hotel in Virginia (Washington, D.C., area). Marriott Hotels and Resorts had grown to include Courtyard by Marriott and American Resorts Group at the time of J. W. Marriott’s death in 1985, at which time J. W.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1927, J. Willard Marriott opened the nine-stool root beer stand that grew into the Hot Shoppes Restaurant chain and evolved into today’s Marriott International hotel company. For the next 58 years, he built the Marriott brand on a foundation of guiding principles that remain embedded in the company’s culture today.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marriott opens first hotel, the Twin Bridges Marriott Motor Hotel, in Arlington, Virginia. Company name changes to Marriott-Hot Shoppes, Inc. and J.W. Marriott, Jr.
Detailed explanation-4: -Founder of Marriott Corporation Starting from modest beginnings on his family farm in Utah, J. Willard Marriott went on to build an immensely successful lodging company that’s well known throughout the world.
Detailed explanation-5: -Early life As a child, “Bill", as J. Willard was called, helped to raise sugar beets and sheep on his family’s farm. At age 13, Marriott raised lettuce on several fallow acres on the farm and the harvest at summer’s end brought $2, 000, which Marriott gave to his father.