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Thomas Cook: forced landing

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"dropcap dropcap3">On<&sol;span> the evening of 22 September 2019&comma; the last attempt to bail out the Thomas Cook Group failed after Fosan Bank refused to add £ 200 million to a £ 900 million loan&period; On the other hand&comma; the UK government was unable to rescue Thomas Cook Without risking significant losses&comma; the state treasury may be affected&period; At 2&colon;00 am on September 23&comma; 2019&comma; the management announced that the company was shut down immediately&comma; leaving about 600&comma;000 tourists stranded during their holidays&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bankruptcy of &&num;8220&semi;Thomas Cook&&num;8221&semi; represents a resounding fall of a company that was listed on the London Stock Exchange on the &&num;8220&semi;FTSE&&num;8221&semi; index of the top 100 companies in 2010&comma; and on the &&num;8220&semi;FTSE&&num;8221&semi; index of the top 250 companies last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>WHO IS THE FOUNDER THOMAS COOK &quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-162 alignleft" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ustopbusiness&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;09&sol;Portrait&lowbar;of&lowbar;Thomas&lowbar;Cook&lowbar;4674343-204x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"204" height&equals;"300" &sol;>Thomas Cook was born in Derbyshire&comma; England&comma; and grew up in poor conditions&period; He entered school at the age of ten&period; Then worked as a bookseller&period; He later became a Protestant and a moderator of religion&period; On 5 July 1841 Thomas and his friend Mario organized a train journey with 570 activists from Leicester to Loughborough&period; He also later organized other train and steamboat trips&period; In 1872 he organized a 40&comma;000-kilometer journey around the world&comma; lasting 222 days&period; Cook&&num;8217&semi;s first European overland trip was in 1855&period; On May 17&comma; 1861 Cook organized a business trip by train and ship to Paris&period; In 1866 he organized another trip for the first time to America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His company organized a trip to Luxor in Egypt on a tour across the Nile&period; His company worked as a contract to transport General Gordon&&num;8217&semi;s campaign to Sudan in 1884&comma; transporting 11&comma;000 British and 7&comma;000 Egyptian troops&period; This tourist company&comma; founded by Thomas Cook and his son in 1871&comma; was family owned until 1928&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>WHO IS THE COMPANY &quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thomas Cook Group &lpar;19 June 2007 &&num;8211&semi; 22 September 2019&rpar; is a global British travel agency and travel agency listed on the London Stock Exchange&period; Founded on June 19&comma; 2007 by the merger of the two companies &lpar;Thomas Cook AG and the group My Travel&rpar;&period; The group owns a number of tour operators and charter airlines &lpar;Thomas Cook Airlines&rpar; in the UK&comma; Belgium&comma; Scandinavia and Egypt&period; It also owns Condor Aviation and the Hotels4u website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;165" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-165" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ustopbusiness&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;09&sol;thomas-cook-4497904&lowbar;1920&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-165 size-full" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ustopbusiness&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;09&sol;thomas-cook-4497904&lowbar;1920&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Thomas Cook Plane " width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1279" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-165" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Thomas Cook Plane <&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The pioneering travel company&comma; which was launched 178 years ago&comma; has for some time been facing difficulties caused by competition from websites&comma; and attributed the crisis to the concern of travelers about the issue of Brexit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company has desperately tried to raise 200 million pounds &lpar;250 million dollars&rpar; from investors to avoid its collapse&period;  The large group is a tourist operator and airline at the same time&period; The bankruptcy of &&num;8220&semi;Thomas Cook&&num;8221&semi; represents a resounding fall of a company that was listed on the London Stock Exchange on the &&num;8220&semi;FTSE&&num;8221&semi; index of the top 100 companies in 2010&comma; and on the &&num;8220&semi;FTSE&&num;8221&semi; index of the top 250 companies last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"td&lowbar;quote&lowbar;box td&lowbar;box&lowbar;left">&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; our financial performance in 2018 was disappointing&comma; despite starting the year well and making good strategic progress&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Group revenue was £9&period;6 billion&comma; up 6&percnt; on a like-for-like basis&comma; and group underlying EBIT was £250 million&comma; down £58 million on a like-for-like basis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>

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