Starwood Announces Filing of Form 10 for Planned Spin-off of Vacation Ownership Business

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. HOT today announced a key milestone toward the planned spin-off of its vacation ownership business into a separate publicly traded company. Starwood Vacation Ownership (SVO), which will be named Vistana Signature Experiences, Inc. upon completion of the spin-off transaction, has filed an initial Form 10 Registration Statement (Form 10) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The spin-off will be effected through a pro rata distribution of the new entity's stock to Starwood stockholders, and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2015. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150616005902/en/ Adam Aron, Starwood's Chief Executive Officer on an interim basis, said: See full press release