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	    <title>Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts News Wire</title>
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	    <description>Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts franchise news feed covering: general announcements, mergers, acquisitions, personnel changes, business expansion, media coverage, conference calls, earnings claims, product announcements, and strategic alliances.
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		<managingEditor>benjaminf@franchiseupdatemedia.com (Franchising.com News Wire)</managingEditor>
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		<copyright>Copyright 2004-2009 Franchise Update Media Group. All rights reserved.</copyright>
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  <title>Starwood Announces Early Tender Results Of Its Cash Tender Offer For Up To $300,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount Of Certain Of Its Outstanding Notes</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), today announced that, as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on November 19, 2009 (the &quot;Early Tender Date&quot;), $193,652,000 aggregate principal amount of its 7&acirc;...ž% Senior Notes due...]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13663/</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:10:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood Becomes Senior Partner For Cornell School Of Hotel Administration's Leadership Development Program </title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Cornell School of Hotel Administration and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), two recognized leaders in the hospitality industry, have developed a corporate alliance that will begin Starwood's three-year senior partnership...]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13608/</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:25:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood Hotels Set To Double Portfolio In Puerto Rico </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) - the hotel industry's most global company - today announces it will double its presence in Puerto Rico in the next year with the opening of the island's first W and St. Regis hotels an]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13535/</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:10:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood Prices $250 Million Debt Offering </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of $250 million of 7.150% Senior Notes due 2019. The notes were offered to the public at a price of 97.559% of principal amount.]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13521/</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:40:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood To Offer Senior Notes Due 2019 </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), announced today that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, 10-year senior notes through an underwritten public offering.]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13506/</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:30:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood Hotel's Denise Coll Inducted Into The Massachusetts Lodging Association Hall Of Fame </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc.(NYSE:HOT) is honored to announce that Denise M. Coll, President of Starwood's North America Division, was selected by the Massachusetts Lodging Association (MLA) to be inducted into the MLA Hall of Fame for he]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13505/</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:25:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood Hotels Announces The Sale Of The St. Regis New York's Retail Space For $117 Million </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced today that the Company has closed on the sale of 24,700 square feet of retail space at the St. Regis New York to GFC Fifth Avenue LLC, an investment group led by the Chera family's Crown.]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13504/</link>
  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:20:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood Auction Offers Insider Access To The Hottest Events Money Can't Buy </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) and its award-winning loyalty program, Starwood Preferred Guest(R) (SPG) invites members to come behind the velvet rope at this season's hottest events - all without spending a cent.]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13483/</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood Hotels Signs An Agreement To Sell Bliss Spas To Steiner Leisure For $100 Million </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) announced today that the company has signed an agreement to sell the Bliss spa and product company to Steiner Leisure Limited (Nasdaq:STNR) for $100 million. As part of the transaction, Bliss and...]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13464/</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:45:00 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Starwood's Board Approves Annual Dividend Of 0.20 Per Share </title>
    <description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels &amp;amp; Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared the Company's annual cash dividend of $0.20 per share. The dividend will be paid on January 14, 2010 to shareholders of record on...]]></description>
    <link>http://www.franchising.com/pressreleases/13460/</link>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:15:00 PST</pubDate>
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