 At the time, the 1,000 rooms of these three hotels comprised 25% of all the luxury hotel rooms in Paris.The properties were sold to Grand Metropolitan Hotel Corporation of London in the mid-1980s.Also during the 1980s, Tamraz founded and built Europe’s Tamoil Corporation by purchasing and combining all of the Italian assets of Amoco (Standard Oil Company of Indiana) and of Texaco Corporation (1,000 service stations each).