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Mattias Sörensen, CEO Bliss Nordic, demonstrates how the bed Bliss easily adjusts with a remote control.
 

Scandic introduces personally customized beds as the first hotel chain in the wo...

2/6/2012 5:09 AM EST
The important role played by the bed for the overall hotel experience is easily understood. Therefore, as the first hotel chain in the world, Scandic now introduce adaptable beds that can be adjusted to meet all personal comfort preferences by the hotel guests. The campaign is a collaboration with the Swedish bed manufacturer Bliss Nordic which has developed the world patented bed design.
Svein Arild Steen-Mevold
 

Scandic opens yet another hotel in Norway

12/12/2011 2:00 AM EST
Scandic and the Øgreid Eiendom have signed a contract to build a new hotel in the centre of Stavanger. The hotel will open in 2013.
The architectural unique hotel will get a prime location, close to the heart of Stavanger. The hotel will have 210 rooms, including rooms for disabled guests. At street level there will be a restaurant, lobby bar and meeting rooms. There will be meeting facilities for the total of...

Scandic wins Nordic Council Environment Prize

5/26/2011 6:45 AM EST
Scandic was rewarded by the Nordic Council for its efforts to promote sustainable tourism in the Nordic Region and beyond. A conscious environmental strategy and a series of apparently minor and simple initiatives have proven highly successful. “Since 1994, Scandic has led the way in efforts to reduce its own environmental impact, a policy subsequently adopted by many others in the hotel industry and society in...
Accepting accolade
 

Top marks in the European Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study Scandic’s guests...

12/16/2010 2:49 AM EST
The 2010 European Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study, a report published by JD Power and Associates, shows that Scandic ranks highest for customer satisfaction in the mid-scale full service category. The annual study asked over 14,400 hotel guests across Europe how happy they were with their stays. Anders Ehrling, President and CEO of Scandic, recently accepted the associated award in Stockholm.
New VP for Scandic Norway
 

New head of Scandic in Norway

10/29/2010 12:00 AM EST
Scandic has recruited Svein Arild Steen-Mevold as the new head of operations in Norway. Svein Arild has a extensive background in the hotel industry and joins from Choice, where he is President of the Clarion Collection. He will take up his post as Vice President Scandic Norway in early 2011.
“I have worked for Scandic before and have always remained very positive to the company,” says Svein Arild. “I feel...

Scandic adds more hotels in the Nordic region

10/26/2010 4:00 AM EST
Continuing its Nordic expansion, Scandic welcomes three new franchise hotels.
Scandic is continuing to grow in the Nordic region, adding three new franchise hotels and renewing an existing franchise agreement. Three of the hotels are located in the city of Bergen in Norway and the fourth is in Arvika, Sweden.

“As part of our focus on developing and growing in the Nordic countries, we will be opening more new...
Magnus Berglund
 

Scandic talks accessibility at the UN

10/7/2010 2:01 AM EST
Magnus Berglund, Scandic’s Disability Coordinator, has been invited to the UN on 7 October to speak about accessibility issues. The day of seminars, organised by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, aims to increase understanding of the content, and consequences, of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was adopted by the General Assembly in December 2006. The...
Magnus Berglund
 

Scandic has built its most accessible hotel ever

9/29/2010 2:00 AM EST
The newly opened Scandic Oslo Airport has wheelchair access in all 245 rooms. Each room also serves as a haven for allergy sufferers, who have also been given full consideration in all the public spaces in the hotel. Scandic has tried to think of all forms of physical disability: mobility issues, allergies and impaired sight or hearing. Scandic Oslo Airport is the first hotel in the Nordic region to be approved by...
Scandic Water
 

Each hotel guest uses 209 litres of water a day

9/6/2010 4:20 AM EST
The Scandic hotel chain has been measuring water consumption at its hotels since 1996. Back then, each guest used 240 litres of water per day; now that figure is down to 209 litres. This is lower than is required for Scandic’s hotels to be approved under the Nordic Swan ecolabelling scheme.
Stockholm, 6 September 2010

As part of World Water Week in Stockholm on 5-11...
Anders Ehrling
 

Anders Ehrling is Scandic’s new President and CEO

8/3/2010 1:36 AM EST
Anders Ehrling, former CEO of SAS Sweden, will be the new President and CEO of the Nordic region’s leading hotel chain – Scandic. Anders Ehrling will take up the post on 1 September this year.
Anders Ehrling will be taking over from Scandic’s current President and CEO, Frank Fiskers, who is moving on to become a partner in a hotel property company in London, but will continue to serve on the board and as an...

Scandic

Scandic is a modern chain of hotels, with about 150 hotels and 30 000 rooms in ten countries. And we continue to grow – within a few years there will be more than 200 Scandic hotels. We want to be more than just a hotel....

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