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brand proliferation

1 story · First covered Mar 9, 2026 · Latest Mar 9
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The Hotel Industry Built 130 Brands Nobody Can Tell Apart. Now What?

The Hotel Industry Built 130 Brands Nobody Can Tell Apart. Now What?

Major hotel companies doubled their brand counts in a decade chasing Wall Street's favorite metric: net unit growth. The problem isn't that they built too many brands. It's that they built too many brands that don't mean anything.