Financial Performance and Position of a Company

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND
POSITION OF A COMPANY

PPHE Hotel Group
• PPHE Hotel Group is the biggest company which is engaged in hospitality
industry. It is headquartered in Netherlands and also it is listed on London
Stock Exchange.
• It has broad brand portfolio and having partnership with another leading
hospitality brand Radisson Hotel Group.
• It has earned 325 billion of revenue in euros at the end of 2017 financial
year.
• It has exclusive rights in nearly 56 countries. It has highly exotic hotels in
many countries including Germany, Europe and other nations.

Whitebread Plc
• Whitebread Plc is another biggest hospitality company listed on London
Stock Exchange (LSE).
• It is headquartered in UK. It is one of the oldest hospitality organization
operating in UK and is primarily engaged in coffee shop, restaurant and
hotel business.
• Organization has earned 2.921 billion at the end of 2016 financial year.

Millennium and Copthorne Hotels Plc
• MP Plc is the largest hospitality industry headquartered in UK. It is real
estate hospitality industry managing, franchising and leasing hotels in
various countries.
• It also offers hotel management consultancy to hotel owners.
• Its vision statement is to become the leading hospitality real estate
company by offering effective and unique assets management services to
people.

Academic and sector literature related to appropriate theory
• The objective behind this research is to provide clarity about importance of
financial ratios' analysis which is required in the company so that financial
condition may be easily ascertained.
• In this context, author has said that computation of financial ratios is quite
important for the company to assess position with reference to its
competitors.
• Income statement and balance sheet provides way to carry out financial
ratios which are helpful for company and various stakeholders.

Cont.
• In contrary to this, author argued that financial ratios does not provide
qualitative information regarding performance of the company as it is
purely based on quantitative information.
• This is the greatest disadvantage of calculating financial ratios.
• This is required as there are various qualitative aspects which are
essentially required for assessing performance of the company.