Who owns Grand Mercure Business Bay?
Grand Mercure Business Bay is operated by Gulf Hotels Group (Bahrain, Bahrain Bourse: GHG) under licence; Gulf Hotels Group does not own the name.[1] The Grand Mercure Business Bay name is owned by Accor.
Evidence: Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C. Annual Report 2025 — Building Momentum for Future Growth, 22 February 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Licensed to
- Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C. reported
- Headquarters
- 🇧🇭 Bahrain, Manama
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- Category
- Travel & transport › Hotels › Upscale hotels
- Parent ticker
- Bahrain Bourse: GHG
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Grand Mercure Business Bay
Grand Mercure Business Bay is Gulf Hotels Group's Dubai hotel, 270 rooms and suites overlooking the Dubai Canal in the Business Bay district. The group owns and manages it, and until its rebranding it traded as Gulf Court Hotel Business Bay under the group's own name; moving it to Accor's Grand Mercure brand traded a name the group owned for one it licenses, in exchange for a global distribution system.
Ownership timeline of Grand Mercure Business Bay
Where Grand Mercure Business Bay sits in Gulf Hotels Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Al Waha Restaurant
- Bahrain Airport Hotel (51%)
- China Garden
- Doña by Margarita Mexicana
- Fishbone
- Fusions
- Gulf Executive Residence
- Gulf Executive Residence Juffair
- Jahazi Restaurant
- Kaju
- La Mosaique Restaurant
- La Pergola
- La Perle
- Margarita Mexicana
- Maverick
- Mawimbi Restaurant
- Rasoi
- Sato Restaurant
- Sofra
- Takht Jamsheed
- The Gulf Hotel Bahrain
- Zen by China Garden
- Zytoun
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Other brands owned by Gulf Hotels Group
Gulf Hotels Group controls 24 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in travel & transport.
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Other brands in upscale hotels, and who owns them
The 57 brands in upscale hotels on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is H World, with 11; Gulf Hotels Group has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Blossom House | H World | 🇨🇳 China |
| Genting Grand | Genting | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Andaz | Hyatt | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Avani Hotels & Resorts | Minor International | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Ascend Collection | Choice Hotels | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Lavande | Jin Jiang Hotels | 🇨🇳 China |
| Marriott Hotels | Marriott | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Arjaan Hotel Apartments | Rotana | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
About the owner: Gulf Hotels Group
Gulf Hotels Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Manama, Bahrain, founded in 1967.
Gulf Hotels Group is Bahrain's largest hotel owner-operator, incorporated in 1967 as Bahrain Hotels Company and renamed in 1969, the year it opened the Gulf Hotel — the country's first five-star hotel. It runs eight properties with about 1,200 keys, roughly twenty restaurants and twelve cafés and lounges, and reported net profit up 44 per cent in 2025 on a net margin of 23 per cent. Unusually for a hotel company its restaurant brands travel on their own: Takht Jamsheed and China Garden are being franchised and opened away from the hotels, in Bahrain malls, at Time Out Market Bahrain and in Saudi Arabia.
Gulf Hotels Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇫🇷 Grand Mercure Business Bay and other French brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 318 brands that began in France. 99 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Grand Mercure Business Bay among them.
- APRR — Eiffage 🇫🇷
- ASF — VINCI 🇫🇷
- Air Caraïbes — Dubreuil Aéro 🇫🇷
- Air Corsica — Air Corsica 🇫🇷
- Air France — Air France-KLM 🇫🇷
- Arval — Arval 🇫🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who makes Grand Mercure Business Bay?
Gulf Hotels Group makes and sells Grand Mercure Business Bay under a licensing agreement.
Does Gulf Hotels Group own Grand Mercure Business Bay?
No. Gulf Hotels Group holds a licence to make and sell Grand Mercure Business Bay, which is not the same as owning it.
Where did Grand Mercure Business Bay come from?
Grand Mercure Business Bay originated in France.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C. Annual Report 2025 — Building Momentum for Future Growth — Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C., Annual report, published 22 February 2026; retrieved 25 September 2026.
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