Thomas
Cook Company Information
About
The Thomas Cook Company
Thomas
Cook with annual revenues of eight billion euro, in excess of 14
million customers, about 3,600 travel agencies selling group products
worldwide, 30 tour operator brands, a portfolio of 73,000 controlled
hotel beds, a fleet of 85 aircraft and a workforce numbering some
28,000.
Thomas
Cook AG, Oberursel, Germany, is the second-largest leisure group
in Europe and also the third-largest group in the world
The
Thomas Cook company is represented in the sales markets of Germany,
Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary,
Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Egypt, Slovenia, India and Canada. About
a half of Thomas Cook AG's group earnings is generated in the sales
markets of Great Britain as well as those of Western and Eastern
Europe.
Thomas
Cook offers 'The Whole World of Travel' as an integrated leisure
group, it works right across the travel value chain encompassing
airlines, tour operators, hotels, travel and incoming agencies to
provide its customers with the right product in all market segments
throughout the whole of Europe
By the
merging of Condor Flugdienst GmbH and NUR Touristic GmbH at the
beginning of 1998, the two shareholders in the company, Deutsche
Lufthansa AG (50%) and KarstadtQuelle AG (50%), laid down the foundations
for an integrated leisure group of European proportions. Its acquisition
of the French travel group Havas Voyages in July 2000 as well as
its take-over of the British travel group Thomas Cook Holdings Ltd.
in April 2001 has made the company Europe's second-largest leisure
group.
Thomas Cook Retail Ltd
The Thomas Cook Business Park
Coningsby Road
Peterborough
PE3 8SB
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