PREM Group currently operates 12 Hotels in Belgium and one in Calais, France. These Hotels were acquired between September 2006 and September 2007 in a Joint Venture with Goodbody Stockbrokers.It has been difficult for a small company like PREM to integrate these Hotels into our Management Structure while trying to maintain the culture that we have cultivated over the last 12 years. Our culture is entrepreneurial with a real sense of ownership of the company by all who work in it. We strive to create a sense of community spirit while working hard but making sure to have some fun in the process. Needless to say the bigger the company gets the harder it is to maintain that culture.It is up to me and the rest of the management team to lead by example and behave in a manner that we expect to be reciprocated.Working with our team in Belgium and France has been an absolute pleasure. We have met some great people and the welcome we receive everywhere we go has been so friendly. We have been impressed by the work ethic of our colleagues, their professionalism and efficiency. In fact they probably work too hard and like all of us need to strike a balance between work and family life.One area of the PREM culture that our new European friends seem to have embraced is the ability to have some fun. On the 25th January all the Hotel GM’s, the senior management and representatives from Dublin got together for a “knees up”. We all attended a performance of Riverdance in Brussels which managed to keep us away from the wonderful Belgian Beer for at least 2 hours.A good night was had by all and I need have no fear about our new colleagues embracing the PREM Group culture.
Some of the team after the Riverdance Show …
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