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href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Cook-oldlogo.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Thomas Cook logo, 1999"><img alt="Thomas Cook logo, 1999" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Thomas_Cook-oldlogo.JPG/200px-Thomas_Cook-oldlogo.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Thomas_Cook-oldlogo.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="295" data-file-height="129" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category">Private company: 1841–1948, 1972–2001<br />Government-owned (<a href="/wiki/British_Transport_Commission" title="British Transport Commission">British Transport Commission</a>): 1948–72</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Hospitality" title="Hospitality">Hospitality</a>, tourism</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">5 July 1841<span class="noprint">; 183 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1841-07-05</span>)</span> in <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, England <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook" title="Thomas Cook">Thomas Cook</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">2001<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Acquired by C&N Touristic AG</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook_AG" title="Thomas Cook AG">Thomas Cook AG</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Worldwide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/HM_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="HM Government">HM Government</a> (1948–1972)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/British_Transport_Commission" title="British Transport Commission">British Transport Commission</a> (1948–1972)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/19980117085913/http://www.thomascook.com/">Thomas Cook Group site</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (archived 17 January 1998)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Thomas Cook & Son</b>, originally simply <b>Thomas Cook</b>, was a company founded by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook" title="Thomas Cook">Thomas Cook</a>, a cabinet-maker, in 1841 to carry <a href="/wiki/Temperance_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Temperance movement in the United Kingdom">temperance</a> supporters by railway between the cities of <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>. In 1851, Cook arranged transport to the <a href="/wiki/Great_Exhibition_of_1851" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Exhibition of 1851">Great Exhibition of 1851</a>. He organised his first tours to Europe in 1855 and to the United States in 1866. </p><p>In 1865, the founder's son John Mason Cook began working for the company full-time. In 1871, he became a partner, and the name of the company was changed to Thomas Cook & Son. The company was <a href="/wiki/Nationalised" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalised">nationalised</a> in 1948, along with the railways, becoming part of the <a href="/wiki/British_Transport_Commission" title="British Transport Commission">British Transport Commission</a>. After de-nationalisation in 1972, it was acquired by a consortium of <a href="/wiki/Trust_House_Forte" class="mw-redirect" title="Trust House Forte">Trust House Forte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midland_Bank" title="Midland Bank">Midland Bank</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Automobile_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="The Automobile Association">the Automobile Association</a>, then subsequently bought by <a href="/wiki/WestLB" class="mw-redirect" title="WestLB">Westdeutsche Landesbank</a> in 1992. </p><p>In 2001, it was acquired by the German company C&N Touristic AG, which changed its name to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook_AG" title="Thomas Cook AG">Thomas Cook AG</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which then merged with MyTravel Group to become <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook_Group" title="Thomas Cook Group">Thomas Cook Group</a> in 2007 and collapsed in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-relaunch_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-relaunch-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The brand was relaunched as <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook_Tourism" title="Thomas Cook Tourism">Thomas Cook Tourism</a> in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-relaunch_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-relaunch-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Cook_%26_Son&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%22One_of_the_dahabeahs_of_Thomas_Cook_%26_Son,_(Egypt)_Ltd.%22.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/%22One_of_the_dahabeahs_of_Thomas_Cook_%26_Son%2C_%28Egypt%29_Ltd.%22.jpg/220px-%22One_of_the_dahabeahs_of_Thomas_Cook_%26_Son%2C_%28Egypt%29_Ltd.%22.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/%22One_of_the_dahabeahs_of_Thomas_Cook_%26_Son%2C_%28Egypt%29_Ltd.%22.jpg/330px-%22One_of_the_dahabeahs_of_Thomas_Cook_%26_Son%2C_%28Egypt%29_Ltd.%22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/%22One_of_the_dahabeahs_of_Thomas_Cook_%26_Son%2C_%28Egypt%29_Ltd.%22.jpg/440px-%22One_of_the_dahabeahs_of_Thomas_Cook_%26_Son%2C_%28Egypt%29_Ltd.%22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1291" /></a><figcaption><i>One of the <a href="/wiki/Dahabeah" title="Dahabeah">dahabeahs</a> of Thomas Cook & Son, (Egypt) Ltd.</i> Berlin: Cosmos art publishing Co., 1893. <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum" title="Brooklyn Museum">Brooklyn Museum</a> Archives</figcaption></figure> <p>Thomas Cook & Son was founded by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook" title="Thomas Cook">Thomas Cook</a>, a cabinet-maker and former <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> preacher, in 1841, under the name <i>Thomas Cook</i>, to carry <a href="/wiki/Temperance_movement" title="Temperance movement">temperance</a> supporters by railway between the cities of <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tele_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company's first excursion was a one-day rail trip, from Leicester to Loughborough and back; the price of one shilling included a meal. This has been described as the world's first package tour.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1851, the founder arranged transport to the <a href="/wiki/Great_Exhibition_of_1851" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Exhibition of 1851">Great Exhibition of 1851</a>. He organised his first tours to Europe in 1855 and to the United States in 1866. In 1865, the founder's son John Mason Cook began working for the company full-time. In 1871, he became a partner, and the name of the company was changed to <b>Thomas Cook & Son</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-aw_golden_age_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aw_golden_age-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thomas Cook had acquired business premises on <a href="/wiki/Fleet_Street" title="Fleet Street">Fleet Street</a>, London, in 1865.<sup id="cite_ref-tele_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The office also contained a shop which sold travel accessories, including <a href="/wiki/Guide_book" title="Guide book">guide books</a>, luggage, telescopes and footwear. Thomas saw his venture as both religious and social service; his son provided the commercial expertise that allowed the company to expand. In accordance with his beliefs, he and his wife also ran a small temperance hotel above the office. Their business model was refined by the introduction of the 'hotel coupon' in 1868. Detachable coupons in a <a href="/wiki/Counterfoil" class="mw-redirect" title="Counterfoil">counterfoil</a> book were issued to the traveller. These were valid for either a restaurant meal or an overnight hotel stay, provided they were on Cook's list.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Cook_Building,_Leicester,_panels.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Thomas_Cook_Building%2C_Leicester%2C_panels.jpg/330px-Thomas_Cook_Building%2C_Leicester%2C_panels.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Thomas_Cook_Building%2C_Leicester%2C_panels.jpg/495px-Thomas_Cook_Building%2C_Leicester%2C_panels.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Thomas_Cook_Building%2C_Leicester%2C_panels.jpg/660px-Thomas_Cook_Building%2C_Leicester%2C_panels.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2434" data-file-height="1232" /></a><figcaption>Panels from the Thomas Cook Building in Leicester, displaying excursions offered by Thomas Cook</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1866, the agency organised the first escorted tours of the United States for British travellers, picking up passengers from several departure points. John Mason Cook led the excursion which included tours of several <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a> battlefields. In 1871, a brief but bitter partnership called <i>Cook, Son and Jenkins</i> was formed in the United States with an American businessman.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first escorted <a href="/wiki/Round-the-world" class="mw-redirect" title="Round-the-world">round-the-world</a> tour departed from London in September 1872. It included a steamship across the Atlantic, a stage coach across America, a paddle steamer to Japan, and an overland journey across China and India.<sup id="cite_ref-tele_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1873, publication of the quarterly (monthly from 1883) <i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook_European_Timetable" title="Thomas Cook European Timetable">Cook's Continental Timetable</a></i> began. It continues to be published in 2021, but no longer by Thomas Cook Publishing, which was <a href="/wiki/Wound_up" class="mw-redirect" title="Wound up">wound up</a> by its parent company in 2013; the timetable was relaunched in 2014 by an independent company, under the title <i><a href="/wiki/European_Rail_Timetable" class="mw-redirect" title="European Rail Timetable">European Rail Timetable</a></i>, no longer affiliated with Thomas Cook Group.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1907_Cooks_Handbook_to_Norway_and_Denmark_cover.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/1907_Cooks_Handbook_to_Norway_and_Denmark_cover.png/170px-1907_Cooks_Handbook_to_Norway_and_Denmark_cover.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/1907_Cooks_Handbook_to_Norway_and_Denmark_cover.png/255px-1907_Cooks_Handbook_to_Norway_and_Denmark_cover.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/1907_Cooks_Handbook_to_Norway_and_Denmark_cover.png/340px-1907_Cooks_Handbook_to_Norway_and_Denmark_cover.png 2x" data-file-width="369" data-file-height="536" /></a><figcaption>Cooks 1907 Handbook to Norway and Denmark</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1874, Thomas Cook introduced his "circular notes", a product that was originally devised by a London banker in the 1770s and was later superseded by <a href="/wiki/American_Express" title="American Express">American Express</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Traveller%27s_cheque" title="Traveller's cheque">traveller's cheques</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Conflicts of interest between father and son were resolved when the son persuaded his father, Thomas Cook, to retire at the end of 1878. He moved back to Leicester and lived quietly until his death. The firm's growth was consolidated by John Mason Cook and his three sons, especially by its involvement with military transport and postal services for <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">Britain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> during the 1880s when Cook began organising tours to the Middle East.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1884, the British Government attempted to relieve <a href="/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon" title="Charles George Gordon">General Gordon</a> from <a href="/wiki/Khartoum" title="Khartoum">Khartoum</a>. The British army was transported up the Nile by Thomas Cook & Son.<sup id="cite_ref-tele_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company had established offices around the world by 1888, including three in Australia and one in <a href="/wiki/Auckland,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Auckland, New Zealand">Auckland, New Zealand</a>, and in 1890, the company sold over 3.25 million tickets.<sup id="cite_ref-millennium_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millennium-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A husband and wife might, for example, pay £85 for a Thomas Cook tour of Germany, Switzerland, and France over six weeks. While expensive enough that the trip would likely be the only one in the couple's lifetime, the company would arrange for a variety of activities new to the middle-class, including museum visits, the opera, and mountain climbing.<sup id="cite_ref-draznin2001_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-draznin2001-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Mason Cook promoted, and even led, excursions to, for example, the Middle East where he was described as "the second-greatest man in Egypt".<sup id="cite_ref-millennium_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millennium-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-family_ownership">Non-family ownership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Cook_%26_Son&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Non-family ownership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thos._Cook_%26_Son_ad_1922.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Thos._Cook_%26_Son_ad_1922.jpg/170px-Thos._Cook_%26_Son_ad_1922.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Thos._Cook_%26_Son_ad_1922.jpg/255px-Thos._Cook_%26_Son_ad_1922.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Thos._Cook_%26_Son_ad_1922.jpg/340px-Thos._Cook_%26_Son_ad_1922.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1757" data-file-height="2484" /></a><figcaption>Thos. Cook & Son ad 1922</figcaption></figure> <p>With the boom in travel in the <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_era" title="Edwardian era">Edwardian era</a>, John Mason Cook's sons, Frank Henry, Thomas Albert and <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Cook_(philanthropist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ernest Cook (philanthropist)">Ernest Edward</a>, were even more successful than their father and grandfather had been at running the business. In 1924, the company was renamed Thomas Cook & Son Ltd., after acquiring limited liability status.<sup id="cite_ref-aw_golden_age_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aw_golden_age-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frank and Ernest opened a new headquarters in Berkeley Street, London in 1926, but unexpectedly sold the business two years later to the <a href="/wiki/Compagnie_Internationale_des_Wagons-Lits" title="Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits">Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grandes Express Européens</a>, operator of the <a href="/wiki/Orient_Express" title="Orient Express">Orient Express</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tele_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Fall of France">Fall of France</a>, the Paris headquarters of the Wagons-Lits company was seized by the Germans, and the British assets taken over by the <a href="/wiki/Custodian_of_Enemy_Property" title="Custodian of Enemy Property">Custodian of Enemy Property</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Railway_Companies_(Thos._Cook_and_Son_Limited_Guarantee)_Act_1942"></span> In 1942, Thomas Cook & Son was sold to <a href="/wiki/Hay%27s_Wharf_Cartage_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Hay's Wharf Cartage Company">Hay's Wharf Cartage Company</a>, which was owned by the four major British railway companies. The company was <a href="/wiki/Nationalised" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalised">nationalised</a> along with the railways in 1948, becoming part of the <a href="/wiki/British_Transport_Commission" title="British Transport Commission">British Transport Commission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tele_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1950s, the company began showing information films at town halls throughout <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">Britain</a> to promote "foreign holidays", particularly France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. The company sold "inclusive tours" (package holidays) using scheduled airlines but refused to sell cheap <a href="/wiki/Package_holiday" class="mw-redirect" title="Package holiday">package holidays</a> which compromised on quality and service. As a result, the company began to lose market share during the 1950s and 1960s, although its operating profits exceeded £1 million for the first time in 1965. The company was denationalised in 1972, when it was acquired from the British Government by a consortium of <a href="/wiki/Trust_House_Forte" class="mw-redirect" title="Trust House Forte">Trust House Forte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midland_Bank" title="Midland Bank">Midland Bank</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Automobile_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="The Automobile Association">the Automobile Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-consortium_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-consortium-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Midland_Bank" title="Midland Bank">Midland Bank</a> acquired sole control in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-tele_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company's name was altered from Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd, to <b>Thomas Cook Group Ltd</b> in 1974, and the company began to relocate most of its administrative functions from London to <a href="/wiki/Peterborough" title="Peterborough">Peterborough</a> in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1980s, Thomas Cook had its most visible business presence in the United States, including robust sales of traveller's cheques to regional American banks. The company had enough business critical mass to set up a computer centre near <a href="/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey" title="Princeton, New Jersey">Princeton, New Jersey</a>. Robert Gaffney, Charles Beach, Robin Dennis and Anthony Horne were some of the notable decision-makers in that era. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Maxwell" title="Robert Maxwell">Robert Maxwell</a> bought substantial holdings in the company in 1988 and still held that interest when Crimson/Heritage purchased the U.S. division of Thomas Cook for US$1.3 billion in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-crimson_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crimson-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1992, following the acquisition of <a href="/wiki/Midland_Bank" title="Midland Bank">Midland Bank</a> by <a href="/wiki/HSBC" title="HSBC">HSBC</a>, Thomas Cook was sold to the German bank <a href="/wiki/WestLB" class="mw-redirect" title="WestLB">Westdeutsche Landesbank</a> (WestLB) and the charter airline <a href="/wiki/LTU_International" title="LTU International">LTU Group</a> for £200 million.<sup id="cite_ref-tele_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 1994, American Express (Amex) bought the corporate travel interests of Thomas Cook Travel Inc. which represented about ten percent of the British company's total revenue. However, Amex was not able to buy the venerable Thomas Cook name; an American Express affiliate, Cook Travel Inc., had been operating under that name since 1991 in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to contractual difficulties, LTU Group sold its 10% shares to WestLB in May 1995. During 1996 the company bought short-haul operator Sunworld and European city-breaks tour group Time Off. Within three years the company had combined Sunworld, Sunset, Inspirations, <a href="/wiki/Flying_Colours_(airline)" title="Flying Colours (airline)">Flying Colours</a> and <a href="/wiki/Caledonian_Airways" title="Caledonian Airways">Caledonian Airways</a> into the <a href="/wiki/JMC_Air" title="JMC Air">JMC</a> (for "John Mason Cook") brand.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 2 February 1999, the Carlson Leisure Group merged with Thomas Cook into a <a href="/wiki/Holding_company" title="Holding company">holding company</a> owned by West LB, Carlson Inc and <a href="/wiki/TUI_Group" title="TUI Group">Preussag Aktiengesellschaft</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ECC_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECC-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, the company announced its intention to sell its financial services division, in order to concentrate on tours and holidays.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2001 the financial services division was sold to <a href="/wiki/Travelex" title="Travelex">Travelex</a>, who retained the right to use the Thomas Cook brand on traveller's cheques for five years. It sold off its worldwide foreign exchange business to Travelex in November 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2001, Thomas Cook was acquired by the German company C&N Touristic AG, which changed its name to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook_AG" title="Thomas Cook AG">Thomas Cook AG</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Archive">Archive</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Cook_%26_Son&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Archive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company's archive was transferred to the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having been acquired in December 2019 by a competitive bidding process.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A £40,000 grant from <a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a> funded an online catalogue.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC-58751876_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-58751876-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Cook_%26_Son&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cook%27s_Travellers_Handbooks" title="Cook's Travellers Handbooks">Cook's Travellers Handbooks</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cook%27s_Rugby_Club" title="Thomas Cook's Rugby Club">Thomas Cook's Rugby Club</a> 1910-1966</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Cook_%26_Son&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cook%27s_Nile_and_Palestine_Tours_poster_-_circa_1902.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Cook%27s_Nile_and_Palestine_Tours_poster_-_circa_1902.jpg/170px-Cook%27s_Nile_and_Palestine_Tours_poster_-_circa_1902.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Cook%27s_Nile_and_Palestine_Tours_poster_-_circa_1902.jpg/255px-Cook%27s_Nile_and_Palestine_Tours_poster_-_circa_1902.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Cook%27s_Nile_and_Palestine_Tours_poster_-_circa_1902.jpg/340px-Cook%27s_Nile_and_Palestine_Tours_poster_-_circa_1902.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1608" /></a><figcaption><i>Cook's Nile and Palestine Tours</i> - 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"Travel Agents Extraordinary." <i>History Today</i> (Sep 1972), Vol. 22 Issue 9, p649-655; online; coverage of father and son to 1899.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFW._Fraser_Rae1891" class="citation cs2">W. Fraser Rae (1891), "The Business of Travel: a Fifty Years' Record of Progress", <i>Nature</i>, <b>44</b> (1133): 247–248, <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1891Natur..44..247.">1891Natur..44..247.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1038%2F044247c0">10.1038/044247c0</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027%2Fcoo1.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft8pc3j956">2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t8pc3j956</a></span>, <a href="/wiki/OL_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OL (identifier)">OL</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14588832M">14588832M</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3969901">3969901</a>, <q>Banquet to commemorate the fiftieth year of the business of Thomas Cook & Son, at the Hôtel Métropole, July 22nd, 1891</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Nature&rft.atitle=The+Business+of+Travel%3A+a+Fifty+Years%27+Record+of+Progress&rft.volume=44&rft.issue=1133&rft.pages=247-248&rft.date=1891&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F2027%2Fcoo1.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft8pc3j956&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A3969901%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1891Natur..44..247.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopenlibrary.org%2Fbooks%2FOL14588832M%23id-name%3DOL&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1038%2F044247c0&rft.au=W.+Fraser+Rae&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Cook+%26+Son" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>John Pudney, The Thomas Cook Story, Michael Joseph Ltd, London 1953</li> <li>Edmund S. 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