For the past 60 years, The Savoy Group has manufactured its own beds to make sure guests have a good night's sleep.

Thurso joined the Savoy Group as a management trainee in 1972 and following this worked for many years in the hospitality industry.

Lord Forte, a 79-year-old entrepreneur who started out with a milk bar in the 1930's, has pursued the Savoy Group since a 1981 bid failed.

Winner then announced his plan to send the offending item to the chairman of the Savoy Group, the restaurant's owner.

The Savoy Group, a collection of London hotels with 772 rooms, sold in April 2004 for well over $1 million a key.

The Savoy Group remained under the control of the Carte family and its associates until 1994.

The contract with the Savoy Group, the hotel's owners, expired.

A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was 'entirely his affair.

Your future husband, that's up to you know who, but as for everything else The Savoy Group can arrange it.

The Savoy Group offers 772 bedrooms, making up more than half of the most expensive hotel rooms in London.