ESSENDI UK HOTELS 1 LIMITED

Shareholders of Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited

One shareholder is disclosed. The confirmation statement made up to 31 May 2025 and filed on 11 June 2025 records a single shareholding of 23,599,999 ordinary shares in the name of AIHI UK Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under number 10529493. That is the whole of the issued share capital, carried in the 2025 balance sheet as £23,600,000 of allotted, called up and fully paid ordinary shares of £1 each after rounding to the nearest £1,000, so the 100% figure in the structured data reconciles exactly with the filed share count.

The Companies House register of persons with significant control shows AIHI UK Limited as the only active PSC of Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited, notified on 30 December 2016, with ownership of 75% or more of the shares, 75% or more of the voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. The earlier PSC entry, Accor UK Limited (company number 01617210), was notified on 30 June 2016 and ceased on 30 December 2016 — the date the present holding structure took effect. AIHI UK Limited was itself named Accor Hotelinvest UK Limited until 8 January 2025; the change was notified to this company’s PSC register on form PSC05 filed 25 April 2025.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No natural person is registered as a person with significant control of Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited, and none appears at the level above it either. The PSC register of AIHI UK Limited names a single active PSC: Essendi S.A. of 26a Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg, registered in Luxembourg under RCS number B100771, notified on 16 December 2016 with 75% or more of the shares and voting rights. Note 26 to the 2025 accounts states that the immediate parent company is AIHI UK Limited and that the ultimate parent company and controlling party is Essendi S.A.

Essendi S.A. is the renamed AccorInvest Group S.A.; the change was announced on 28 April 2025 and took effect on or around 2 June 2025. Its shareholder base was formed on 31 May 2018, when Accor completed the sale of 57.8% of AccorInvest’s capital to Public Investment Fund, GIC, Colony NorthStar, Crédit Agricole Assurances, Amundi and other private investors, retaining 42.2%. Note 25 to the 2025 accounts describes Accor SA as an indirect minority shareholder in Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited; Accor stated its own holding as 30.56% on 1 April 2026 and approximately 30.7% on 24 July 2026, when it signed a binding agreement to sell it.

No ultimate beneficial owner is verified. The ownership chain leaves the United Kingdom at Essendi S.A., Luxembourg’s register of beneficial owners has not been open to the general public since the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling of 22 November 2022, and the individual percentages held by the sovereign and institutional investors in Essendi S.A. are not published. No effective percentage can be calculated to a natural person, and none is asserted here.

Data availability

Partial. The United Kingdom layer is complete and dated — single member, exact share count, share class, PSC identities and notification dates all come from Companies House filings — but the chain ends at a Luxembourg holding company whose own beneficial owners are not publicly disclosed, so ownership is traceable to a corporate ultimate parent and no further. One defect in the baseline gd_shareholders record: it stores the AIHI UK Limited holding twice as two identical rows with total_results = 2, which implies two shareholders where the register shows one; the name, share count, share class and 100% figure on those rows are otherwise correct.

Sources

• Companies House, Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited (01016187), persons with significant control — PSC notified 30 December 2016, retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01016187/persons-with-significant-control
• Companies House, Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited, confirmation statement made 31 May 2025, filed 11 June 2025, retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01016187/filing-history
• Companies House, Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited, full accounts made up to 31 December 2025, filed 10 September 2026, notes 25 and 26; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01016187/filing-history
• Companies House, AIHI UK Limited (10529493), persons with significant control — Essendi S.A., RCS Luxembourg B100771, notified 16 December 2016; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10529493/persons-with-significant-control
• Accor, “AccorHotels sells 57.8% of the capital of AccorInvest”, press release 31 May 2018, retrieved 29 September 2026: https://press.accor.com/accorhotels-sells-57-8-of-the-capital-of-accorinvest/?lang=en
• Accor, “Accor signs a memorandum of understanding on the sale of its stake in Essendi”, press release 1 April 2026, retrieved 29 September 2026: https://press.accor.com/accor-signs-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-the-sale-of-its-stake-in-essendi/?lang=eng
• Accor, “Accor signs a definitive binding agreement on the sale of its stake in Essendi”, press release 24 July 2026, retrieved 29 September 2026: https://press.accor.com/accor-signs-a-definitive-binding-agreement-on-the-sale-of-its-stake-in-essendi/?lang=eng
• Essendi, first quarter 2025 results and new identity, published 29 May 2025, retrieved 29 September 2026: https://www.essendi.com/?p=5027

Directors and officers of Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited

The Companies House officer index records 37 appointments in total with 35 resignations, leaving two officers in office, both directors. Alice Sophie Benedicte Neubert was appointed on 30 June 2017 and Martijn Van Der Graaf on 26 April 2021. The register states Mrs Neubert’s nationality as French and her place of residence as France, and Mr Van Der Graaf’s nationality as Dutch and his place of residence as the Netherlands; both are taken from the register’s own nationality and residence fields. Both records show identity verification complete, and both use the company’s registered office at 245 Hammersmith Road, London, as a correspondence address. The directors’ report for the year ended 31 December 2025, signed on 13 July 2026, names the same two directors together with Celine Francoise Eloise Gibert, who left during the year. Directors’ remuneration attributable to services to the company was £435,000 (2024: £393,000). Officer data was retrieved from Companies House on 29 September 2026.

No company secretary has been in office since 26 April 2021. A private company is not required to appoint one under section 270 of the Companies Act 2006, so this is not a filing failure, but the register shows an otherwise unbroken run of secretaries from before June 1991 to that date, so the vacancy is a change in practice rather than a long-standing arrangement.

Recent officer changes

• Celine Francoise Eloise Gibert ceased to be a director on 31 January 2025; form TM01 was filed on 4 February 2025.
• Alice Sophie Benedicte Neubert’s registered details were changed with effect from 2 July 2024 and again from 12 September 2024; forms CH01 were filed on 15 July 2024 and 25 September 2024.
• Etienne Michel Ghislain Bourel de la Ronciere ceased to be a director on 20 September 2023, the date Ms Gibert was appointed.

Data availability

Full for the United Kingdom. Companies House publishes current and former officers with their legal role, appointment and resignation dates, month and year of birth, nationality and place of residence, and this company’s record carries all of those fields for the current directors. Nationality is reported here only because the register records it explicitly; it has not been inferred from a name, an address or a country of residence.

Three faults in the baseline gd_officers record should not be repeated. It stores 31 of the 37 officer records that Companies House holds, and the six it omits include three company secretaries — Olivier Poirot (1 March 1996 to 15 June 2001), Jean Jacques Maurice Schmitt (22 October 2007 to 8 January 2016) and Adrian John Whitehead (22 February 2016 to 1 July 2017) — so the stored data understates how continuously the secretary role was filled. It converts the register’s qualified wording “appointed before 8 June 1991” into an exact appointment date of 8 June 1991 on all five pre-1991 rows it holds. And several rows carry an address_country of FR, NL or BE against a correspondence address that the register gives as a London one, mixing residence or nationality into an address field.

Sources

• Companies House, Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited (01016187), officers — 37 officers, 35 resignations; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01016187/officers
• Companies House, Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited, filing history — TM01 filed 4 February 2025, CH01 filed 15 July 2024 and 25 September 2024; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01016187/filing-history
• Companies House, Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited, full accounts made up to 31 December 2025, filed 10 September 2026 — directors’ report and note 7; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01016187/filing-history

Group structure of Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited

Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited is not independent. Note 26 to its accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 names AIHI UK Limited (England and Wales, 10529493) as the immediate parent company and Essendi S.A. of 26a Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (RCS Luxembourg B100771) as the ultimate parent company and controlling party, and Essendi S.A. is the largest and smallest group into which the company’s results are consolidated. The same chain is corroborated by the two companies’ PSC registers at Companies House. Below itself the company holds twelve direct subsidiaries, all incorporated in England and Wales and all wholly owned, which own, lease or develop the hotel properties it trades from, plus a 30% interest in St. James Hotel Limited. Essendi UK Hotels 2 Limited (01244907), the Ibis-brand operator, is a sister company under the same immediate parent. The structure below is drawn from the accounts filed on 10 September 2026 and from register entries retrieved on 29 September 2026; it is UK-complete and stops at Luxembourg above.

Verified corporate relationships

Recent structural changes

• AI London Heathrow Limited (14980029) moved within the group on 2 May 2024: its PSC register records Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited ceasing on that date and Essendi UK Hotels 2 Limited being notified the same day.
• The holding structure was renamed through 2025. AIHI UK Limited replaced the name Accor Hotelinvest UK Limited on 8 January 2025, this company replaced Accor UK Business & Leisure Hotels Limited on 30 April 2025, and AccorInvest Group S.A. became Essendi S.A. on or around 2 June 2025 following the announcement of 28 April 2025. No change of parent accompanied the renaming.
• On 24 July 2026 Accor announced that it had signed, on 23 July 2026, a definitive binding agreement to sell its approximately 30.7% stake in Essendi S.A. to a consortium of Blackstone and Colony IM for up to about €975m, with completion expected in the fourth quarter of 2026 subject to regulatory and antitrust approvals. The transaction is not recorded as completed and Accor states the hotels would remain under Accor brands on franchise agreements averaging 20 years.

Data availability

Partial. The UK relationships are fully documented — every entity above was confirmed by registered name, company number and status at Companies House, and the ownership percentages come from note 14 to the filed accounts — but no percentage is published for the holding above Essendi S.A., and Luxembourg does not publish sufficient ownership detail for the layers above it. Note 20 to the 2025 accounts also records that Essendi S.A. has €3.2bn of secured debt and that the shares of AIHI UK Limited, of this company and of four of its subsidiaries (AI Blackfriars Limited, AI London Southwark Hotel Limited, B&L 4 Limited and B&L 6 Limited) are pledged as security, which is a control consideration distinct from ownership.

The baseline gd_groups tree is stale and misstates the top of the structure. It is rooted at Accor SA (France) and shows Essendi S.A. as a direct child of Accor, which is not a parent relationship: Accor is a minority shareholder in Essendi S.A. and the filed accounts name Essendi S.A., not Accor, as the ultimate parent and controlling party. The tree also still shows AI London Heathrow Limited as a subsidiary of this company although that link ended on 2 May 2024, and it omits the 30% interest in St. James Hotel Limited. Note that St. James Hotel Limited is listed in the accounts under “subsidiary undertakings directly held” at 30%, while its own PSC register shows Societe Hoteliere Paris Les Halles SAS (RCS Paris 333 122 778) holding more than 50%; the interest is treated above as a participating interest rather than a subsidiary for that reason.

Sources

• Companies House, Essendi UK Hotels 1 Limited (01016187), full accounts made up to 31 December 2025, filed 10 September 2026 — notes 14, 20 and 26; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01016187/filing-history
• Companies House, AIHI UK Limited (10529493), persons with significant control; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10529493/persons-with-significant-control
• Companies House, Essendi UK Hotels 2 Limited (01244907), persons with significant control; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01244907/persons-with-significant-control
• Companies House, AI London Heathrow Limited (14980029), persons with significant control — cessation dated 2 May 2024; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14980029/persons-with-significant-control
• Companies House, St. James Hotel Limited (04165524), persons with significant control; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04165524/persons-with-significant-control
• Accor, “Accor signs a definitive binding agreement on the sale of its stake in Essendi”, press release 24 July 2026; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://press.accor.com/accor-signs-a-definitive-binding-agreement-on-the-sale-of-its-stake-in-essendi/?lang=eng
• Essendi, first quarter 2025 results and new identity, published 29 May 2025; retrieved 29 September 2026: https://www.essendi.com/?p=5027