In 2026 we mark two milestones. The Warwick New York, the hotel from which our group takes its name, celebrates its centenary. In Fiji, Warwick Holdings Fiji has announced its intention to list on the South Pacific Stock Exchange.
A century and half the world separate them. Both reflect the same conviction about the places in which we choose to invest.
In 2026 we mark two milestones. The Warwick New York, the hotel from which our group takes its name, celebrates its centenary. In Fiji, Warwick Holdings Fiji has announced its intention to list on the South Pacific Stock Exchange.
A century and half the world separate them. Both reflect the same conviction about the places in which we choose to invest.
The Warwick New York was built in 1926 by William Randolph Hearst, the most powerful newspaper proprietor of his day, for his mistress, the actress Marion Davies. She was performing in the Ziegfeld Follies across the road, and Hearst gave her a floor of the hotel to herself, with her Hollywood circle following her through the doors.
During the Second World War, the hotel was the preferred New York base of Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations. In the 1950s it became the New York home of Cary Grant, and the address Elvis Presley chose in the city. Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor were among those who went through the hotel’s doors.
In August 1965, and again in August 1966, the Beatles made the Warwick New York their New York residence. Their admirers filled West 54th Street day and night, and the police placed barricades along the street to hold back the crowds. The band gave a press conference inside the hotel on each visit. Both remain available to view:
In 2026 the Warwick New York receives guests travelling for business and for pleasure. Central Park lies a few streets to the north and the theatre district a few streets to the south; and off the lobby is Randolph’s, the hotel bar, now widely regarded as the most New York of New York bars.
We acquired the Warwick New York in May 1980, fifty-four years after it opened, and began a major programme of renovation that brought the hotel to four-star deluxe standard. In the years that followed we adopted the hotel’s name as our own. Warwick Hotels and Resorts has carried it since, to approximately 50 hotels across four continents, and remains one of the few groups of that size to be privately held and independent.
Our presence in Fiji began on the Coral Coast more than thirty years ago. Warwick Holdings Fiji today operates five properties: Warwick Fiji, The Naviti Resort and Tambua Sands on the Coral Coast, Tokatoka Resort near Nadi International Airport, and Warwick Le Lagon in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
In August 2026, at our Journey into the Future event at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva, we announced that Warwick Holdings Fiji intends to list on the South Pacific Stock Exchange, which would make it the first dedicated hotel and tourism company to do so. The Prime Minister of Fiji, the Honourable Sitiveni Rabuka, attended, together with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism, the Honourable Viliame Gavoka, and the chair of the Investment Fiji board, Ms Jenny Seeto.
The listing is intended to broaden ownership. “We stay in hotels, we work in offices, we are proud of them, but ownership has too often belonged to only a few,” the Prime Minister said, describing the Fiji he wishes to see: built by Fijians, owned by Fijians, shared by Fijians.
Alongside the listing, our founder and president, Mr Richard Chiu, set out an investment programme of close to F$200 million across the Pacific over the next thirty months, the majority of it in Fiji, with the objective of doubling revenue within five years.
Few hotels reach their centenary. Fewer still lend their name to the company that owns them. From one address in New York, Warwick Hotels and Resorts has grown to approximately 50 hotels across four continents and has remained private and independent throughout. The centenary in New York and the listing in Suva express the same conviction: to invest in a place, to stay for the long term, and to let those who live around it share in what it becomes.
