Lemon Tree Hotels
Lemon Tree Hotels is a hotel chain company, based in India. The company owns and operates 84 hotels, with 8300 rooms in 52 cities of India. It is India's largest hotel chain in the mid-priced hotel sector, and the 3rd largest overall, in terms of controlling interest in owned and leased rooms, as of 30 June 2017, according to the Horwath Report. History. Lemon Tree Hotels was founded in 2002 by Patu Keswani. It opened its first hotel with 49 rooms in May 2004. In 2019, the company acquired Berggruen Hotels Private Limited for an  enterprise value of 605 crores. At the time of acquisition, Berggruen Hotels owned 936 rooms and managed 975 rooms under the 'Keys' brand in 21 cities across India. Lemon Tree Hotels went public in early 2018 and was listed on the National Stock Exchange of India on 9 April 2018. Operations. The company operates under 7 brands: Aurika Hotels and Resorts (upscale), Lemon Tree Premier (upper midscale), Lemon Tree Hotels (midscale) & Red Fox by Lemon Tree Hotels (economy), Keys Prima (upper midscale), Keys Select (midscale) and Keys Lite (economy). In India, its hotels are located in major destinations such as  Ahmedabad, Aligarh, Alwar, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Baddi, Bandhavgarh, Bengaluru, Bhiwadi, Bhubaneswar, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Corbett, Dehradun, Delhi, Gangtok, Ghaziabad, Goa, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jhansi, Jammu, Kerala, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Manali, Manesar, Noida, Patna, Pune, Siliguri, Srinagar, Tiruchirappalli, Udaipur, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Vadodara. Corporate social responsibility. Currently, ~20% of group employees are from deprived and disabled segments of the population. A supporter of the NGO, PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals), each of its hotels in India has an adopted dog mascot. It is the largest corporate adopter of stray dogs in India.