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Who owns Resorts World Birmingham?

Resorts World Birmingham is owned by Genting (Malaysia, Bursa Malaysia: GENTING).[1]

Genting owns 73.8% of Resorts World Birmingham rather than all of it.

This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.

Evidence: Genting Berhad Integrated Annual Report 2025. Last checked .

Key facts

Current owner
Genting Berhad (73.8% stake) reported
Owner HQ
🇲🇾 Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Origin
🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Birmingham
Category
Travel & transport › Hotels › Upscale hotels
Parent ticker
Bursa Malaysia: GENTING
Last verified
· 1 sources

About Resorts World Birmingham

Resorts World Birmingham is the group's British integrated resort, next to the National Exhibition Centre, and sits alongside the more than thirty casinos Genting runs in the United Kingdom under Genting UK. The British business came from the group's 2006 acquisition of casino properties there; Genting UK is registered at Genting Club Star City in Birmingham. Genting Berhad holds the lot through Genting Malaysia at 73.8 per cent.

Ownership timeline of Resorts World Birmingham

  1. Current owner Genting (73.8%) [1] reported

Where Resorts World Birmingham sits in Genting

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

Where Resorts World Birmingham sits in Genting Tree of 16 brands under Genting. Genting Resorts World Birmingham 73.8% Adventure Cove Waterpark 52.6% Crockfords 73.8% First World Hotel 73.8% Genting Grand 73.8% Genting SkyWorlds 73.8% and 10 more

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Other brands owned by Genting

Genting controls 16 brands on Brandtree, 12 of them in travel & transport.

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Other brands in upscale hotels, and who owns them

The 58 brands in upscale hotels on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is H World, with 11; Genting has 7.

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Avani Hotels & Resorts Minor International 🇹🇭 Thailand
Ascend Collection Choice Hotels 🇺🇸 United States
Bahrain Airport Hotel Gulf Hotels Group 🇧🇭 Bahrain
Lavande Jin Jiang Hotels 🇨🇳 China
Marriott Hotels Marriott 🇺🇸 United States
Arjaan Hotel Apartments Rotana 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

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About the owner: Genting

Genting is a publicly listed company headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, founded in 1968. Brandtree records 16 brands under its control, and it is listed as Bursa Malaysia: GENTING.

Genting Berhad is principally an investment holding and management company in Kuala Lumpur. It was incorporated in 1968 and listed in 1971, but dates the group itself to 1965, when its founder Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong set out to build a resort on a mountaintop in Malaysia. The group now spans leisure and hospitality, oil palm plantations, power generation, oil and gas, property development and life sciences, operates in nine countries with about 55,000 employees, and turned over RM27.7 billion in 2025. It holds its leisure business through three separately listed subsidiaries — Genting Malaysia, Genting Singapore and Genting Plantations — plus the wholly owned Genting Energy and Resorts World Las Vegas.

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🇬🇧 Resorts World Birmingham and other British brands

Brandtree records a controlling owner for 571 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 297 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Resorts World Birmingham among them.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the parent company of Resorts World Birmingham?

The parent company of Resorts World Birmingham is Genting, a publicly listed company headquartered in Malaysia.

Is Resorts World Birmingham British or Malaysian?

Resorts World Birmingham originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by Genting, which is headquartered in Malaysia. So Resorts World Birmingham is a British-origin brand under Malaysian ownership.

Is Resorts World Birmingham still owned by Genting?

Yes. As of 24 September 2026, Resorts World Birmingham is still owned by Genting (73.8% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.

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. [1] Genting Berhad Integrated Annual Report 2025 — Genting Berhad, Annual report; retrieved 24 September 2026.

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