Two thirds of German hotel reservations service hotel.de is now owned by Cologne-headquartered HRS.
Hotel booking company HRS, which already owned 3 per cent, has bought an additional 61.6 per cent of the shares from the founding holders of hotel.de.
With a total of 64.6 per cent, HRS is now the majority shareholder in hotel.de, which also trades as hotel.info.
Hotel.de, located in Nuernberg, will continue to be managed as a standalone company, by its existing team.
The company currently serves more than four million private and corporate customers worldwide on its books, and a stock of 210,000 hotels.
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