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Leger started operating coach tour holidays between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, from their base in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 1983. [3] [7] [8]The parent company, as of 2022, is Leger Shearings Group which is 70% owned by Ian and Kathleen Henry, with the remaining 30% owned by company directors, Liam Race, Andrew Oldfield and Chris Plummer.
Shearings, which was founded in 1919, merged with Smiths Happiways in 1984, which can trace its history back to 1903. Smiths Happiways. In 1903 William Webster commenced trading as a haulage and removals contractor and passenger carrier, offering coach transport, and by 1931, Webster Bros (Wigan) [5] offered excursions and tours to North Wales and Manchester.
January – February – Vienna Ball Season [1] 1 January – New Pfandsystem starts [2]; 4 January – Karl Nehammer announces his resignation as Chancellor and leader of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) after the party fails to form a government following the 2024 Austrian legislative election.
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This was followed in April 2005 with Wallace Arnold merging with Shearings in a £200,000,000 (equivalent to £377,194,000 in 2023) deal to become WA Shearings, claiming a 14% share of the UK coach holiday market. [1] [11] [12] In 2007 the Wallace Arnold name was dropped, with the company name simplified to Shearings Holidays. [13]
Lower Austria and Vienna: 24 December: Christmas Eve: Weihnachten: All states, recognized as bank holiday but not a federal public holiday. 31 December: New Year's Eve: Silvester: All states, recognized as bank holiday but not a federal public holiday.