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Tsogo shakes up management of Hospitality Property Fund

22 Sep 2016

Hospitality Property Fund (HPA, HPF) will get a new CEO and financial director, following its takeover by Tsogo Sun.

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HPF's current CEO, Vincent Joyner, will be replaced by Keith Randall at the end of the year. Joyner will also leave the board of HPF.

Earlier this year, a deal in which gaming and leisure group Tsogo would inject 10 hotels valued at close to R1.8bn into HPF, was given the green light.

HPF is the only hotel-focused real estate investment trust (Reit) listed in SA, and Tsogo under the deal would inject the assets in exchange for more than 50% of HPF's ordinary shares.

This would leave HPF with ownership of 25 hotels, and about R7.1bn worth of assets.

HPF has been turned around under Joyner's stewardship. The company had struggled to grow its income since the 2010 Soccer World Cup, when many hotels enjoyed strong visitor numbers.

Joyner joined HPF in September last year.

In its most recent financial results, HPF reported that it had grown its profit before distribution by 16.8% to R272m for the year to June, and managed to dispose of seven noncore properties, for a total net consideration of R189.9m.

Randall holds an engineering degree, an engineering diploma and an MBA from the University of Cape Town. He has been with the Tsogo group for more than 20 years, principally in the development of new hotels and the oversight of major hotel refurbishments, in SA, Africa and the Middle East. He is currently the MD of Sun 1 Hotels.

Tsogo bought the Formula 1 Group in SA from Accor and Randall has been responsible for the refurbishment and repositioning of this hotel chain as part of Tsogo Sun.

The board also appointed Mara de Lima as financial director, effective from the end of September.

De Lima is a chartered accountant and has been the group financial manager of Tsogo Sun Hotels since 2009.

Riaan Erasmus, who has been the acting financial director of Hospitality, will continue in the role of senior group financial and treasury manager.

HPF's board said in a statement on Wednesday, 21 September: "The board thanks Vincent for his role in the implementation of the transaction and for his tremendous contribution and dedication to the company during what has been an exceptionally challenging period.

"Vincent leaves the company in a considerably better position than when he joined the group in September 2015."

Source: BDpro

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