Langham has a luxury hotel heritage dating back to 1865 when the Langham Hotel in London originally opened as Europe’s first Grand Hotel. For 140 years, this flagship hotel has been at the forefront of sophisticated and gracious hospitality. Now Langham hotels are well situated in global gateway cities to cater for the discerning needs of international travelers. Langham Hotels International (LHI)’s parent company is the publicly listed Great Eagle Holdings Limited, which was founded in 1963 and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972. The Great Eagle Group is one of Hong Kong’s leading property and hotel companies. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the Group develops, invests and manages high quality office, retail, residential and hotel properties in Hong Kong, North America and Europe. Its commercial property holdings include 2.36 million square feet of Grade-A office space in the prime commercial districts of Hong Kong. In the fourth quarter of 2004, it opened Langham Place a 1.8 million square feet office, retail and hotel complex in the prime shopping district of Mongkok, Hong Kong. The group currently manages seven luxury properties located in Auckland, Boston, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne and Pasadena under two distinctive brands - The Langham and Langham Place. It also owns and manages the superior Eaton Hotel, three Eaton House furnished apartment buildings and the Yat Tung Heen Chinese Restaurants as well as the owned Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, in Canada.