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Thomas Cook was born on 22 November 1808, to John and Elizabeth Cook, who lived at 9 Quick Close in the village of Melbourne, Derbyshire. [1] At the age of 10, Cook started working as an assistant to a local market gardener on Lord Melbourne 's estate. [ 1 ]
Coutts & Co. traveller's cheque, for 2 pounds. Issued in London, 1970s. Langmead Collection. On display at the British Museum in London. Traveller's cheques were first issued on 1 January 1772 by the London Credit Exchange Company for use in 90 European cities, [1] and in 1874, Thomas Cook was issuing "circular notes" that operated in the manner of traveller's cheques.
Thomas Cook was a main sponsor of Manchester City and Peterborough United football clubs. On 22 May 2009, Manchester City announced that its six-year partnership with Thomas Cook would conclude at the end of the 2008–09 Premier League season. [122] Thomas Cook was a sponsor of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. As one of the UK's biggest and ...
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Thomas Cook's lending banks and bondholders were to stump up a further 450 million pounds and convert their existing debt to equity, giving them in total about 75% of the airline and up to 25% of ...
On 31 December 2019, Travelex took its UK and international websites and mobile apps offline following a reported cyber incident [17] an action that also affected a number of large corporate third parties to whom Travelex provided a white-labelled travel money service [17] including the online travel money services of supermarket chains such as ASDA, Tesco and Sainsbury's, of which Travelex ...
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