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Audley Travel was founded in a Northampton post office in 1996 by Craig Burkinshaw and John Brewer, both graduates of the London School of Economics.The pair originally offered tours of Vietnam, advertising in The Sunday Times.
By 2007, Holidaybreak held a portfolio of specialist holiday businesses. [1]Holidaybreak became a wholly owned subsidiary of former competitor Cox & Kings in July 2011 [2] after a long period of attempting to sell two loss-making parts of its business, Explore and Superbreak. [3]
In 2010 Simon Russell took over as CEO, overseeing the acquisition of Africa, Asia and Latin America specialist Imagine Travel in 2013, the opening of an office in San Diego through the acquisition of Aardvark Safaris in April 2016 and the opening of an office in Singapore in September 2016, enabling the company to operate 24 hours a day.
Canvas Holidays logo. Canvas Holidays is a company which offers camping holidays across Europe.. Founded 50 years ago by the Cuthbert family, it was the pioneer in the sited tent market.
Thomson Travel Group plc was a business formed by the Thomson Corporation of Canada, when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998. It was acquired by Preussag AG, an industrial and transport conglomerate, in 2000.
TUI Travel PLC was a British leisure travel group headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex.The company was formed on 3 September 2007 by the merger of First Choice Holidays PLC and the Tourism Division of TUI AG, which owned 56.4% of it. [2]
Cosmos (formerly Cosmos Tours) is a UK independent tour operator providing a range of package holidays to the UK market. The tour operator is connected to the international Globus Travel Group, founded in 1928, which remains family owned with headquarters in Lugano, Switzerland.
An 1885 advertisement for the New York branch of the English tailoring house of Redfern. Gilda Darthy in a dinner dress and coat by Redfern, Les Modes, February 1908. Redfern & Sons (later Redfern Ltd) was a British tailoring firm founded by John Redfern (1820–1895) in Cowes on the Isle of Wight that developed into a leading European couture house (active: 1855–1932; 1936–1940).