Gulf Hotels Group: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Gulf Hotels Group (Bahrain Bourse: GHG) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Manama, Bahrain that owns 23 consumer brands across 2 categories and operates 3 consumer brands under licence without owning the names.[1]
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.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C. (also GHG, Bahrain Hotels Company)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇧🇭 Manama, Bahrain
- Founded
- 1967
- Tickers
- Bahrain Bourse: GHG
- Website
- gulfhotelsgroup.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Gulf Hotels Group in numbers
- Gulf Hotels Group owns 23 consumer brands tracked here across 2 top-level categories; the largest is restaurants & foodservice with 19 brands.[1]
- 2 of its brands originated outside Bahrain.
Everything Gulf Hotels Group owns
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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Brand portfolio by category
Full portfolio, 23 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →
Minority stakes, joint ventures and licences
- Novotel Bahrain Al Dana Resort — licensee 100%[1]Operated under licence; the Novotel Bahrain Al Dana Resort name is owned by Accor.
- Grand Mercure Business Bay — licensee 100%[1]Operated under licence; the Grand Mercure Business Bay name is owned by Accor.
- Crowne Plaza Bahrain — licensee 100% since 2016[1]Operated under licence; the Crowne Plaza Bahrain name is owned by InterContinental Hotels Group.
Recent changes to this record
- · Al Waha Restaurant added to the dataset
- · Bahrain Airport Hotel added to the dataset
- · China Garden added to the dataset
- · Doña by Margarita Mexicana added to the dataset
- · Fishbone added to the dataset
- · Fusions added to the dataset
- · Gulf Executive Residence Juffair added to the dataset
- · Gulf Executive Residence added to the dataset
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Gulf Hotels Group own?
Gulf Hotels Group owns 23 consumer brands tracked here, including The Gulf Hotel Bahrain, Bahrain Airport Hotel, Fusions, Takht Jamsheed, China Garden and Gulf Executive Residence Juffair.
Is Gulf Hotels Group a Bahraini company?
Yes. Gulf Hotels Group is headquartered in Manama, Bahrain and was founded in 1967.
Who owns Gulf Hotels Group?
Gulf Hotels Group is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as GHG on the Bahrain Bourse.
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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