Starwood Hotels Group

Description: Starwood is one of the world's largest hotel and leisure companies. We conduct our hotel and leisure business both directly and through our subsidiaries. Our brand names include St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, W and Four Points by Sheraton. Through these brands, we are well represented in most major markets around the world. Our operations are grouped into two business segments, hotels and vacation ownership operations. At the end of 2004, we employed approximately 120,000 employees at our corporate offices, owned and managed hotels and vacation ownership resorts, of whom approximately 44% were employed in the United States.