Qbic Hotels - An introduction

1. QBIC HOTELS
AN INTRODUCTION
NOVEMBER 2010

2. QBIC HOTELS 1
• First hotel opened in 2007 (WTC Amsterdam)
• Privately funded
• Patented furniture ‘pod’ (in-room ‘click & screw’
assembly)
• Target groups: leisure & business travellers
• ‘Budget Boutique’ Formula
• Basic amenities, all of highest quality (best basics)
• Value priced
• Extensive media coverage, e.g. CNN, El Pais, New York
Times
• Unique Q-Lounge designed to facilitate ‘Social Media
Interaction’

3. Q-lounge 2

5. GLOBAL PROBLEM - EMPTY OFFICE BUILDINGS 4
Market problem
• Empty (office) buildings are not generating any income,
create lower tax revenues and can negatively impact
social environments
• Building owners and (local) governments are looking for
solutions to reverse these situations by revitalizing
affected buildings and areas
• Currently no scalable concept for office transformations
Market size
• Currently over 100 million sq metres of vacant building
space in the EU alone(average 15,6% of total space)*
• Vacancy rates are growing
• No real strategic solutions available
Opportunity
• New concept to transform vacant (office)space
• Increase building value

6. SOLUTION 5
Almost any building can be turned into a hotel...
Qbic Hotels is the only formula to do this ‘quick and cheap’
while attracting substantial sales and income:
Differentiators
• Patented in-room furniture concept; ‘Cubi Total Living
Concept’
• Shortest building time (80 % faster than traditional
construction)
• Lowest building cost (60 % cheaper than traditional
construction)
• Re-usable

7. STAKEHOLDER USP’S 6
Qbic Hotels offer a unique solution for all stakeholders
real estate owners, the modern traveler, investors and local
communities
USP’S
• Modular and scalable in-room furniture concept
• Three months building time
• Regenerator of building
• Innovative and inspirational hotel formula, attracting a
global customer base of both leisure and business
travellers
• Low cost, best value
• Patent (pre-approved)
• Transformation is greenest building method
• Lowest operational cost, high margins

8. TRANSFORMATION OF OFFICE BUILDING TO QBIC HOTEL 7
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9. CONSTRUCTION KEY POINTS 8
• Building time: average three months
• Minimum free space between floor and ceiling: 2700
millimetres
• Minimum entrance into the building: 900 x 2100
millimetres
• Infrastructure: water (cold & warm), electricity,
ventilation, drainage, cable.
• No need for ground floor (except entrance)
• Average 120 rooms
• Average surface 3.360 square metres | 36.000 square
feet
• Average first full year turnover: € 3.000.000 per hotel
• Total investment: € 4.200.000 per hotel (excl real estate)

10. QBIC HOTELS EXPANSION PLAN 9
• 2011-2014: Qbic Hotels Holding (QHH) will establish 18
hotels in the Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom and
Germany: 6 company hotels & 12 licensed hotels
• 2015-onwards: rapid expansion: 200+ Qbic Hotels
globally

11. THE TEAM 10
• Paul Rinkens: hotel designer, extensive hotel
management experience, conceptionair, award winner.
• Paul Janmaat: long run entrepeneur, wide-ranging hotel
management- and airline experience, extensive start-up
experience, former CCO KLMexel.
• Rene Savelberg: 25 years entrepeneurial experience,
extensive start-up experience, former CEO McDonald’s
NL.