ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2002--Arlington Hospitality, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM:HOST) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Jerry H. Herman as its new President and CEO. Mr. Herman will assume this role on January 7, 2003. Mr. Herman will also join Arlington Hospitality's Board of Directors as of this date.
Mr. Herman, a 20-year veteran of the hotel industry, brings extensive experience and success in leading companies focused on the ownership, management, acquisition, development, financing and franchising of hotels throughout the United States. For nearly ten years, through June 2002, he served as Managing Director and President of City Hotels USA, Inc., overseeing the strategic business plan of the Company's limited service, full service and extended stay hotels, including brands such as Doubletree, Hampton, and Hilton. Prior to City Hotels, Mr. Herman was with C.R.I., Inc., a large national real estate investment firm, where he served as a Senior Vice President-General Counsel and then Senior Vice President-Hotel Acquisitions.
Ken Fell, recently appointed independent Chairman of the Board of Arlington Hospitality commented, Jerry is a dynamic leader with a proven track record. He has a solid hotel background that includes outstanding transactional and organizational leadership experience and numerous relationships throughout the industry, which will be of great benefit to Arlington's hotel development and sale activities as well as the expansion of the AmeriHost Inn brand. After an extensive and extremely thorough search process, Jerry was the Board's unanimous choice, among several extremely qualified and talented individuals. We are delighted to have him leading the management team.
Arlington Hospitality is a company with an outstanding history of developing and operating the AmeriHost Inn brand, said Herman. I look forward to working closely with all of Arlington's associates and its Board of Directors, as well as with Cendant and other AmeriHost Inn franchisees toward our unified goal of significant brand growth and profitability. The performance of the AmeriHost Inn brand during this difficult period for the hotel industry is indeed impressive, indicating the strong potential for significant brand expansion.
Arlington Hospitality, Inc. is a publicly traded hotel management and development Company that builds, manages and sells mid-priced hotels throughout the United States, primarily under the AmeriHost brand, a trademark owned by Cendant. Currently, Arlington Hospitality owns or manages 73 properties in 17 states, including 62 AmeriHost Inn hotels, for a total of 5,403 rooms, with four additional AmeriHost Inn & Suites hotels under construction. Each hotel offers an amenities package not often found in other mid-priced hotels.
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