Thomas Cook Group
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defunct British global travel company
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Thomas Cook Group was an organization established on January 1, 1841. It operated as an entity classified as "other" within regulatory filings. The company ceased operations and was dissolved on September 23, 2019.
At the time of its dissolution, the group employed 21,800 people. Its corporate identity was associated with the Central Index Key 0001439578. The most recent filing recorded for the entity was form F-6 POS, dated September 29, 2017.
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Vinony's link graph records 275 inbound references to Thomas Cook Group, and connects out to Condor Flugdienst, Sunclass Airlines and The Co-operative Group.
It is catalogued under topics including 1841 establishments in England, 2019 disestablishments in England and British companies disestablished in 2019.
Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Trade name
- Thomas Cook Group
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- LSE : TCG, FWB : TCG
- Isin
- GB00B1VYCH82
- Industry
- Hospitality , Tourism
- Predecessors
- Thomas Cook & Son Thomas Cook AG MyTravel Group
- Founded
- 5 July 1841 ; 184 years ago ( 1841-07-05 ) in Leicester , England as Thomas Cook
- Founder
- Thomas Cook
- Defunct
- 23 September 2019 ; 6 years ago ( 2019-09-23 )
- Fate
- Ceased trading and entered into compulsory liquidation
- Successors
- Hays Travel (acquisition of Thomas Cook UK travel stores) Sunclass Airlines (formerly Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia) Thomas Cook Holidays , ( Fosun Tourism Group ) (acquisition of Thomas Cook name and logo, Casa Cook and Cook's Club hotel brands by Fosun) Condor Flugdienst GmbH
- Headquarters
- London , England , United Kingdom
- Area served
- Global
- Key people
- Frank Meysman (Non-Executive Chairman), Peter Fankhauser (CEO)
- Products
- Charter and scheduled passenger airlines, package holidays , cruise lines , hotels and resorts
- Services
- Package holidays Flights Hotels
- Revenue
- £9,584 million (2018)
- Operating income
- £250 million (2018)
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
- Entity type
- other
- Latest filing
- F-6 POS · 2017-09-29
- Jurisdiction
- GB
- Headquarters
- LONDON, GB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded by
- Thomas Cook
- Headquarters
- Peterborough
- Industry
- tourism industry
- Employees
- 21800
- Stock exchange
- London Stock Exchange
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Official website
- www.thomascook.de
- Image
- Thomas Cook in West Street Precinct - geograph.org.uk - 789707.jpg
- Significant event
- liquidation
Show 6 more facts
- inception
- 1841-01-01
- location of formation
- Peterborough
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-09-23
- social media followers
- 130140
- Commons category
- Thomas Cook Group
- native label
- Thomas Cook Group
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Cook Group plc was a global travel group, headquartered in the United Kingdom and listed on the London Stock Exchange from its formation on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG — successor to Thomas Cook & Son — and MyTravel Group until 23 September 2019, when it went into compulsory liquidation. The group operated as a tour operator and airline, and also operated travel agencies in Europe. At the time of the group's collapse, approximately 21,000 worldwide employees were left without jobs (including 9,000 UK staff) and 600,000 customers (150,000 from the UK) were left abroad, triggering the UK's largest peacetime repatriation.
After the collapse, segments of the company were purchased by others, including the travel stores in the UK, the airlines, the Thomas Cook name and logo, the hotel brands and the tour operators. Thomas Cook India has been an entirely separate entity since August 2012, when it was acquired by Fairfax Financial and thus was not affected. In September 2020, Fosun International launched Thomas Cook Holidays as the successor to the company, hiring some former Thomas Cook Group staff in the process.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Cook Group” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.