Accor: Executive Committee Appointments

PARIS, September 1  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gilles Pelisson, Director and Chief Executive Officer, has strengthened his Executive Committee by appointing four new executives and assigning new responsibilities to some of the other members:

                          Appointments

  For Accor Services:

  Oswaldo Melantonio Filho     Chief Operating Officer, Accor
                               Services Brazil, 56 years old,

                               Oswaldo Melantonio Filho is a Brazilian
                               citizen. He has been a part of the Accor
                               Group for 27 years, helping to develop
                               Accor Services' leadership in Brazil, the
                               most important market.

  For Accor Hospitality:

  Olivier Poirot               Chief Executive Officer, Motel 6/Studio 6
                               And Chief Operating Officer, Accor North
                               America, 40 years old,

                               He has joined Accor in 1992 and has held
                               finance positions in the United States since
                               2001. Since 2007, he is in charge of Motel
                               6/Studio 6 in the USA, Canada, Mexico, as
                               well as of support fonctions for Accor North
                               America.

  For the support functions:

  Jean-Luc Chretien            Executive Vice President, Hotel
                               Distribution, 51 years old

                               He has joined the Accor Group after working
                               for EuroDisney, Pierre et Vacances and SNCF
                               Voyages. He is in charge of the different
                               distribution channels, such as sales, the
                               Internet and call centers, as well as the
                               new customer loyalty program.

  Pascal Quint                 Corporate Secretary and Secretary of the
                               Board of Directors, 50 years old,

                               He will take up his functions by the end of
                               September 2008, after having served as
                               Corporate Secretary for EuroDisney and
                               Cegelec. He will be in charge of Legal
                               Affairs, Insurance and Risk Management,
                               Security/Safety Management as well as of
                               ensuring the efficient functioning of the
                               Group's corporate governance bodies.


                          New Responsibilities

  For Accor Hospitality:

  Yann Caillere                Chief Operating Officer France, Southern
                               Europe, Africa and Middle East, Latin
                               America and CEO Sofitel Worldwide, 55 years
                               old,

                               He is in charge of the region that includes
                               France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece,
                               Israel, and the Africa/Middle East region.
                               His responsibilities have now been extended
                               to the Latin America region.

  For the support functions:

  Philippe Adam                Executive Vice President for Hotel Design
                               And Construction, and Group Purchasing and
                               Group Sustainable Development, 51 years old,

                               He is in charge of a new unit combining
                               Innovation and Design, Hotel Technical
                               Services, Group Purchasing and Group
                               Sustainable Development.

  Jacques Stern                Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice
                               President, Strategy, Hotel Development and
                               Information Systems, 44 years old,

                               In addition to his responsibilities
                               concerning Group Finance, and Information
                               Systems, Jacques Stern will be in charge of
                               Group Strategy and Hotel Development.


  Following these changes, the Accor Executive Committee around
  Gilles Pelisson now comprises:

  Philippe Adam               Executive Vice President for Hotel Design and
                              Construction and Group Purchasing and
                              Sustainable Development

  Yann Caillere               Chief Operating Officer France, Southern
                              Europe, Africa and Middle East, Latin America
                              and CEO Sofitel Worldwide, Accor Hospitality

  Jean-Luc Chretien           Executive Vice President, Hotel Distribution

  Oswaldo Melantonio Filho    Chief Operating Officer, Accor Services
                              Brazil

  Michael Flaxman             Chief Operating Officer, Northern Europe,
                              Accor Hospitality

  Michael Issenberg           Chief Operating Officer, Accor Asia Pacific,
                              Accor Hospitality

  Cathy Kopp                  Executive Vice President, Human Resources

  Eric Lepleux                Executive Vice President, Hotel and Brand
                              Marketing

  Olivier Poirot              Chief Executive Officer, Motel6/Studio 6 and
                              Chief Operating Officer, Accor North America

  Pascal Quint                Corporate Secretary and Secretary of the
                              Board of Directors,

  Serge Ragozin               Chief Operating Officer, Accor Services
                              Worldwide

  Jacques Stern               Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice
                              President, Strategy, Hotel Development and
                              Information Systems

  In an internal memo issued today, Mr. Pelisson noted:

  "The strategy implemented over the past three years has led
   to profound changes for our Group:

  - In our business base, with the disposal of non-strategic
    assets enabling us to return significant funds to shareholders.
  - Our repositioned brands.
  - Our revitalized teams.
  - Our increased performance.

  However, as economic conditions tighten and encourage us to
  reassess our operating costs and manage them very carefully, we need to
  continue driving growth in our two core businesses.

  This growth will involve the following challenges:

  - In Accor Services, the challenge of both deploying our
    expertise and winning new markets in new geographies, even as this
    expertise is evolving very quickly with the shift to electronic media
    and the use of new technologies. At the same time, the business has to
    seamlessly integrate the many new companies acquired in recent months.

  - In Accor Hospitality, the challenge of expanding on five
    continents in line with the new business model, which now combines
    owned/leased properties and, increasingly, management contracts and
    franchise agreements. This is why we need strong brands that are widely
    recognized, complementary and well distributed.

  To succeed, we need to redefine our operating performance
  depending on the hotel ownership structure, focus on hotel design and
  construction, and, more than ever, pool our eight platforms, which serve
  as centers for our expertise and capabilities."




Accor, a major global group and the European leader in hotels, as well as the global leader in services to corporate clients and public institutions, operates in nearly 100 countries with 150,000 employees. It offers to its clients over 40 years of expertise in two core businesses:

- Hotels, with the Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, all seasons, Etap Hotel, Formule 1 and Motel 6 brands, representing 4,000 hotels and nearly 500,000 rooms in 90 countries, as well as strategically related activities, such as Lenotre.

- Services, with 30 million people in 40 countries benefiting from Accor Services products in employee and public benefits, rewards and loyalty, and expense management. 

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