tenth December 2025
The Australian firm, Flight Centre Journey Group, has acquired Iglu – a web based journey company, comprising three manufacturers, Iglu Cruise, Planet Cruise and Iglu Ski. NEW
Iglu Ski provides over 280 ski resorts throughout 18 international locations and three continents.
“This acquisition creates vital future alternatives within the world cruise market,” mentioned the International CEO and Managing Director of FCTG, Graham Turner.
“Iglu brings a number one UK place, a robust model, and a scalable expertise platform that aligns with FCTG’s strategic targets.
“The enterprise additionally has a robust individuals community and a robust tradition that aligns with our personal.”
Cruise is by far the largest a part of the Iglu enterprise and it’s attention-grabbing that no direct remark was made on the ski aspect of the corporate.
The enterprise will function from its Wimbledon and Portsmouth places of work because it does now.
Along with concentrating on additional progress within the UK, FCTG intends to leverage Iglu’s scalable platform to drive growth within the fast-moving world cruise sector.
“We’re thrilled to turn into a part of the Flight Centre Journey Group,” mentioned the Iglu CEO, David Gooch.
“This partnership opens up vital future progress alternatives, permitting us to scale our operations whereas sustaining the distinctive identification that has made us profitable.
“By leveraging Iglu’s world-leading ecommerce platform alongside Flight Centre’s world expertise, we’re completely positioned to seize new market share.
“Most significantly, the sturdy cultural match between our companies provides me nice confidence that we’ll proceed to ship distinctive worth to our prospects, suppliers and other people.”
Flight Centre Journey Group is an Australia-based leisure and company journey administration enterprise.
It will probably hint its roots again 52 years to the UK, the place founder and CEO Graham Turner established an overland coach tour enterprise, Topdeck, in 1973.
Outgoing Iglu Founder and Non-Government Chairman Richard Downs displays on the success of the final 27 years.
“It’s been a outstanding journey of resilience, creativity and technical innovation, since I began Iglu in a small workplace in Baker Avenue with a devoted crew,” mentioned Richard Downs.
“I’m delighted to see Iglu, now the dominant European on-line retailer of cruise and ski holidays, turn into a massively valued a part of one of many largest journey corporations on this planet.”
The FCTG UK enterprise now contains the Flight Centre, Scott Dunn and Cruise Membership UK leisure manufacturers, plus the Company Traveller and FCM company journey administration companies.
FCTG is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, and has companies in 24 international locations, spanning Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Europe, the UK, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Asia.
The corporate is listed on the Australian Securities Trade (ASX) and has a market capitalisation of round $AU 3bn (£1.5bn).
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