Talk:Thomas Cook

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The company is currently under pressure from animal rights activists because
it is the largest supplier in the world of holidays to Mauritius, an island
with a vast number of monkey farms, which breeds and ships wild-caught primates
to research laboratories around the world.

This is a joke, right? They are critizised because they supply holiday trips to Mauritius? There isn't even one word about the monkey thing in the Mauritius article. If we do so for Thomas Cook, we can add similiar notes to almost every global company in the world, that deals e.g. with China, because they commit massive crimes to their people. --Thomas

Isn´t it forbbiden to upload logotypes to the wikicommons? Tonyjeff 18:05, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


I remember reading somewhere that the Conservative government of Heath nationalised Thomas Cook at one point. I'm pretty sure it's true, but can't find a source. Anyone know anything about said matter?

Ant


This article is seriously in need of being split into two:
  • a biographical article on Thomas Cook, the man; and
  • a commercial history article on Thomas Cook, the company.
In answer to the query above re nationalization, "Ant" has it a little arse-over-tit, if I may be forgiven the expression.
In 1928, Thomas Cook & Son Ltd was acquired by its rival, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens of Brussels and Paris. When these cities fell to occupation by the Germans in WWII, the British assets of Thomas Cook were handed over to the Official Custodian of Enemy Property for England. In 1942 the British government authorized the transfer of the share capital of Thomas Cook to a company in which the four principal British railway companies had a controlling interest.
At the end of WWII, Thomas Cook & Son Ltd settled its affairs with the Wagons-Lits Company (which retained a 25% share in Cook's overseas) and, together with the railways who controlled it, became part of British Railways under the care of the British Transport Holding Company.
It was the Edward Heath governement, in 1972, which privatized Thomas Cook, selling it to a consortium composed of the Midland Bank, Trust House Forte, and the Automobile Association.
Oops, I seem to have written half the company's history already... -- Picapica 17:00, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
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