Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC)

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, a vacation company, engages in the vacation ownership, exchange, rental, and resort and property management businesses in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Vacation Ownership and Exchange & Third-Party Management. It develops, markets, sells, and manages vacation ownership and related products under the Marriott Vacation Club, Grand Residences by Marriott, Sheraton Vacation Club, Westin Vacation Club, Hyatt Vacation Club, and Ritz-Carlton Club brands; and holds non-exclusive right to develop, market, and sell whole ownership residential products under the Ritz-Carlton Residences brand name, as well as has a license to use the St. Regis brand for specified fractional ownership products. The company also offers exchange network and membership programs, as well as management services to other resorts and lodging properties through its Interval International and Aqua-Aston businesses. In addition, it provides financing consumer purchases of vacation ownership products; and renting vacation ownership inventory. The company sells its upper upscale tier vacation ownership products under its brands primarily through a network of resort-based sales centers and certain off-site sales locations. Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.