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Who owns OpenTable?

OpenTable is owned by Booking Holdings (the United States, NASDAQ: BKNG), which acquired the brand on 24 July 2014 for $2.6 billion.[1][2] OpenTable was founded in 1998 in San Francisco, California and was independent until 2014.

Evidence: Booking Holdings Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-18, SEC EDGAR, 18 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .

Key facts

Current owner
Booking Holdings Inc. verified
Owned since
· deal details
Acquisition price
$2.6 billion (enterprise value)
Previous owner
Independent (1998–2014)
Owner HQ
🇺🇸 United States, Norwalk, Connecticut
Origin
🇺🇸 United States, San Francisco, California
Founded
1998
Category
Internet & digital › Digital services › Productivity & developer tools
Parent ticker
NASDAQ: BKNG
Last verified
· 2 sources

About OpenTable

OpenTable handles restaurant reservations and was founded in 1998, building its position by supplying restaurants with the booking terminals that fed its network. Priceline acquired it in 2014 for about $2.6 billion, an unusual purchase for a company otherwise focused on travel.

What Booking Holdings's annual report says about OpenTable

Sentences about OpenTable from Booking Holdings's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.

How often Booking Holdings names OpenTable in its annual report

A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.

Annual report filedTimes OpenTable is named
202614
202515
202416

Ownership timeline of OpenTable

Owners of OpenTable over 1998 to 2026 Booking Holdings 2014–present Booking Holdings 200020052010201520202025
  1. 2014 – present Booking Holdings — acquired 24 July 2014 [1][2] verified

Where OpenTable sits in Booking Holdings

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Where OpenTable sits in Booking Holdings Tree of 6 brands under Booking Holdings. Booking Holdings OpenTable Agoda Booking.com KAYAK Priceline Rentalcars.com

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Other brands owned by Booking Holdings

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About the owner: Booking Holdings

Booking Holdings is a publicly listed company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States, founded in 1997. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: BKNG.

Booking Holdings was called Priceline until 2018, when it renamed itself after the Dutch business it had bought for $133 million in 2005 and which had grown far larger than its American parent. It is the largest online travel company in the world, and its brands are the main alternative to Expedia's.

Booking Holdings: full profile, brands and acquisition history →

🇺🇸 OpenTable and other American brands

Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 492 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; OpenTable is not one of them.

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Deals involving OpenTable

Acquisition closed

Booking Holdings acquires OpenTable

Priceline acquired OpenTable for $103 per share, about $2.6 billion, moving into restaurant reservations. It was an unusual purchase for a travel group, and the company later wrote down a substantial part of its value.

Value
$2.6bn
Seller
—
Regulatory
None recorded

Frequently asked questions

Who is the parent company of OpenTable?

The parent company of OpenTable is Booking Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.

Is OpenTable American?

Yes. OpenTable originated in the United States in 1998 and its owner, Booking Holdings, is also headquartered in the United States.

When did Booking Holdings buy OpenTable?

Booking Holdings completed its acquisition of OpenTable on 24 July 2014, after announcing the deal on 13 June 2014. The deal was valued at $2.6 billion (enterprise value).

Who owned OpenTable before Booking Holdings?

OpenTable was an independent company from its founding in 1998 in San Francisco, California until Booking Holdings acquired it in 2014.

Is OpenTable still owned by Booking Holdings?

Yes. As of 29 October 2026, OpenTable is still owned by Booking Holdings. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.

Sources (2) & 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. [1] Booking Holdings Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-18 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 18 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  2. [2] priceline.com Incorporated Form 8-K — acquisition of Bookings B.V. — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 8-K, published 1 September 2005; retrieved 16 September 2026.

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