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Hays Travel was founded in 1980 by John Hays in Seaham, Durham. Hays initially opened a small retail store behind his mother's clothing store. [2] Since May 2018, Hays Travel reached sales of over £1 billion. [3] The company's turnover increased by £42 million over 2017, when pre-tax profit was up slightly to £10.1 million.
Hays earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Oxford. [3] He later earned an MBA from Manchester Business School. [4] In 1980, Hays founded Hays Travel in the back of his mother's children's wear store in Seaham, Durham. [5] Hays owned 56.42% and his wife Irene owned 43.58%. [6]
Dame Irene Lucas-Hays DBE DL (née Lucas; born 4 February 1954) is a British businesswoman and former civil servant, and the chair of Hays Travel, the largest independent travel agent in the UK, which she jointly owned with her husband John Hays until his death in 2020.
John Hays (businessman) (1949–2020), British businessman, founder of Hays Travel; John Hays (sheriff) (1770 – after 1822), first known Jewish resident of Illinois, Sheriff of St. Clair County, Illinois; Indian agent; John Coffee Hays (1817–1883), or "Jack" Hays, Texas Ranger, U.S. Army officer, first mayor of Oakland, California; John H ...
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With his wife, Hays began collecting American art in the 1970s. [5] [6] By the 1980s, they began collecting French art, especially Les Nabis. [6] Hays and his wife co-founded the American Friends of the Musée d'Orsay in 2013. [7] Hays served on its board of directors. [8] In 2016, the couple donated 187 paintings worth £155 million to the museum.
The American Independence Museum is a historic house museum located in Exeter, New Hampshire.Its 1-acre (0.40 ha) campus includes two buildings: the Ladd-Gilman House, a registered National Historic Landmark built in 1721 by Nathaniel Ladd, and the Folsom Tavern, listed on the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places and built in 1775 by Colonel Samuel Folsom.