Providence Group Completes Consulting with Balsams Grand Hotel
Resort is Well Known as the "First in Nation" Electoral Site
DUXBURY, MA, October 30, 2008. The Providence Group, LLC, a Massachusetts-based full service hospitality management company, announced today that it has completed a consulting engagement with The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, to provide a strategic analysis of the hotels operations, market situation and sales and marketing initiatives. Upon completion of the project, The Providence Group CEO, Jed C. Heller, reported his assessment and recommendations to the hotel's trustees.
"I compliment Jed on his work and his presentation to the Board of Trustees. I think it went well and everyone was pleased. It was just what we had asked for and gives us valuable business insights as we move forward," said Grafton J. Corbett III, CEO of Tillotson Corporation and a Trustee of The Balsams Hotel.
The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel is a premier resort located in New Hampshire's White Mountains on 15,000 acres in the small town of Dixville Notch. Each year since 1960, Dixville Notch voters assemble at The Balsams at midnight to cast their "First in Nation" electoral ballots. The walls of this historic ballot room bear testimony with captioned photographs and other displays of all the dignitaries and candidates who have visited since 1960.
The Providence Group was founded in 2005 by Jed C. Heller to offer hospitality and general management services to hotels, time-share resorts and condominiums in the U.S. and overseas. The company currently provides management and consulting services for several small and medium size hotels, including the Sandhurst Hotel, Fort Pierce, FL, Sleep Inn and Suites, Etowah, TN and the Microtel Inn and Suites, Seneca Falls, NY. Past engagements include the Drake Hotel, Oakbrook, IL, Residence Inn, Baron Rouge, LA and the Fairfield Inn and Suites, Tulsa, OK.
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