The Orient Express name has long been synonymous with luxury train cars and widespread notoriety from the Agatha Christie novel, “Murder on The Orient Express”. But in October 2012, Orient-Express Hotels was at a fork in the railway. The company was mired in debt and facing a $1.2 billion ($12.63/sh.) bid to be acquired by The Indian Hotels Company Ltd., an arm of the Tata Group in India.
The Orient Express name has long been synonymous with luxury train cars and widespread notoriety from the Agatha Christie novel, “Murder on The Orient Express”. But in October 2012, Orient-Express Hotels was at a fork in the railway. The company was mired in debt and facing a $1.2 billion ($12.63/sh.) bid to be acquired by The Indian Hotels Company Ltd., an arm of the Tata Group in India.
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