Thomas Cook
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History
Thomas Cook is the world’s best-known name in travel.
• Thomas Cook started organising leisure trips in the summer of 1841 when its founder, who gave his name to the company, organised a successful one-day rail excursion at a shilling a head from Leicester to Loughborough.
• During the next three summers Mr Cook arranged a succession of trips, taking passengers on trips to the midland towns of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Birmingham. Four years later, he organised his first trip abroad, taking a group from Leicester to Calais to coincide with the Paris exhibition.
• Thomas Cook was nationalised shortly after World War Two when it became part of the state-owned British Railways. It was privatised in the 1970’s with Midland Bank becoming its sole owner in 1977. It was then sold by Midland in 1992 to a German bank and charter airline.
• Today the company is 50:50 owned by German retail group KarstadtQuelle and the Lufthansa airline. KarstadtQuelle is in the process of buying out Lufthansa’s half which is a precondition of the merger of MyTravel and Thomas Cook announced today going ahead.
Information
History
Thomas Cook is the world’s best-known name in travel.
• Thomas Cook started organising leisure trips in the summer of 1841 when its founder, who gave his name to the company, organised a successful one-day rail excursion at a shilling a head from Leicester to Loughborough.
• During the next three summers Mr Cook arranged a succession of trips, taking passengers on trips to the midland towns of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Birmingham. Four years later, he organised his first trip abroad, taking a group from Leicester to Calais to coincide with the Paris exhibition.
• Thomas Cook was nationalised shortly after World War Two when it became part of the state-owned British Railways. It was privatised in the 1970’s with Midland Bank becoming its sole owner in 1977. It was then sold by Midland in 1992 to a
History
Thomas Cook is the world’s best-known name in travel.
• Thomas Cook started organising leisure trips in the summer of 1841 when its founder, who gave his name to the company, organised a successful one-day rail excursion at a shilling a head from Leicester to Loughborough.
• During the next three summers Mr Cook arranged a succession of trips, taking passengers on trips to the midland towns of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Birmingham. Four years later, he organised his first trip abroad, taking a group from Leicester to Calais to coincide with the Paris exhibition.
• Thomas Cook was nationalised shortly after World War Two when it became part of the state-owned British Railways. It was privatised in the 1970’s with Midland Bank becoming its sole owner in 1977. It was then sold by Midland in 1992 to a German bank and charter airline.
• Today the company is 50:50 owned by German retail group KarstadtQuelle and the Lufthansa airline. KarstadtQuelle is in the process of buying out Lufthansa’s half which is a precondition of the merger of MyTravel and Thomas Cook announced today going ahead.
Information
History
Thomas Cook is the world’s best-known name in travel.
• Thomas Cook started organising leisure trips in the summer of 1841 when its founder, who gave his name to the company, organised a successful one-day rail excursion at a shilling a head from Leicester to Loughborough.
• During the next three summers Mr Cook arranged a succession of trips, taking passengers on trips to the midland towns of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Birmingham. Four years later, he organised his first trip abroad, taking a group from Leicester to Calais to coincide with the Paris exhibition.
• Thomas Cook was nationalised shortly after World War Two when it became part of the state-owned British Railways. It was privatised in the 1970’s with Midland Bank becoming its sole owner in 1977. It was then sold by Midland in 1992 to a