Editing Industrial espionage (section)

===Hilton and Starwood===
In April 2009, [[Starwood Hotels and Resorts|Starwood]] accused its rival [[Hilton Worldwide]] of a "massive" case of industrial espionage. After being acquired by [[The Blackstone Group]], Hilton employed 10 managers and executives from Starwood. Starwood accused Hilton of stealing corporate information relating to its luxury brand concepts, used in setting up its Denizen hotels. Specifically, former head of its [[luxury brands]] group, Ron Klein, was accused of downloading "truckloads of documents" from a laptop to his personal email account.{{sfn|Clark|2009}}