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Are you passionate about life and providing an exceptional quest experience? Come work with an experienced and growing company that values individual creativity and diversity.

Proven Experience in Food & Beverage Industry

Apart from having expertise in hotel management, our key personnel has over 15 years of experience in the food and beverage industry. Our team has proven experience in developing and managing concepts like Uno Chicago Grill, Subway, Taco Del Mar, and an independent full-service Italian restaurant.

Skillful Management & Development

We have developed and managed hotels with Intercontinental Hotels Group, Hilton, Wyndham, Choice Hotels International, and various independent brands. Our specific management and development duties include the complete design and construction of the entire facility, including building, patio, kitchen, and bar. We are also professionals in recruiting and training exceptional team members who love to be part of the Sonmar culture. In addition, we help take care of marketing and sales, weekly cost and inventory control, catering/banquets, and daily operations.

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How We Started

Sonmar Management is the outcome of earlier partnerships and businesses which date back to 1975.

How We Started

Sonmar Management is the result of earlier partnerships and companies dating back to 1975. Russell D. Maring has been the common partner since this time. Mr. Maring got the company started by developing his own chain of eight independently owned and managed limited service hotels. The name of these hotels were originally called Econo Inn but later changed to Select Inn. All these properties were sold in 1988 and are still operating today.

In 1982 Mr. Maring was a partner and manager of a group that bought the Oak Manor, a 122 room full-service hotel in Fargo, ND. The hotel was subsequently sold in 1985 and is currently operating under a different independent flag. In 1988 Mr. Maring created Sonmar Management with one other partner. Over a 10 year period the company developed and managed 32 hotels including Comfort Inn, Comfort Inn & Suites, Sleep Inn, Quality Suites, and Holiday Inn Express in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. In 1998, the company sold 20 hotels to Tharaldson Enterprises and retained 12 properties in Washington and Oregon.

Our Team

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Barimore S. Maring

President & CFO

Barimore S. Maring

Mr. Maring is a successful entrepreneur with management experience in several diverse industries. He graduated Cum Laude from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN with a BA in Business Administration and Accounting with a minor in Spanish. Barry developed his financial skills as an auditor with KPMG in Minneapolis, MN and he passed the CPA exam the fall after graduation. Subsequently, Barry joined the North Dakota Department of Banking as a Bank Examiner. During his six years as an Examiner, he attended numerous training schools and gained an in-depth knowledge of banking and analyzing bank credits in numerous industries. Barry began following his entrepreneurial spirit early in his career when he developed a quick-serve Italian restaurant and purchased three Subway restaurants with a partner. Mr. Maring left his position as a Bank Examiner in May 1998. Barry has been involved in many successful land transactions, restaurants, hotels, and other commercial real estate deals during the next decade before joining Sonmar Management, Fargo, ND in 2008.

Russell D. Maring

Chairman & Founder

Russell D. Maring

Mr. Maring was born in Moorhead, MN December 17, 1941. He graduated from North Dakota State University in 1963 with an Economics Degree and from the University of North Dakota in 1967 with a Law Degree. He was in private practice in Fargo, North Dakota, from 1967-2000.

During his law practice, he developed hotels and restaurants as follows:

In 1975, he was the executive officer of a company that developed eight economy hotels. Six of these properties were in North Dakota, one in South Dakota, and one in Minnesota. The size of these hotels ranged from 50 units to 180. The company was originally called Econo-Inn and later changed to Select-Inn. The properties were sold in 1988 to three different purchasers, and the hotels are still doing well today.

During that same period, he developed and franchised a Mexican restaurant concept called Sergio’s. 15 restaurants were developed throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. His share of ownership in these restaurants was sold periodically over the past seven years, with the final two locations sold in January 2007.

From 1982 to 1985 he was in an investor group and manager of a 122 unit full-service hotel in Fargo, North Dakota called the Oak Manor. This property was purchased from the Kahler Hotel Corporation and subsequently resold to an independent purchaser in 1985.

In 1988 he started a hotel development and management company with one individual, Denis J. Olson, developing Comfort Inn, Comfort Inn & Suites, Sleep Inn, and Holiday Inn Express hotels in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. They built and managed 32 hotels, and in 1998 sold 20 hotels to Tharaldson Enterprises and retained 11 properties in Washington and Oregon.