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Ryanair boasts ecommerce success
News Travel sites are proving particularly successful, with both Lastminute.com and Ebookers achieving encouraging financial results this year. Announcing its latest passenger figures, Ryanair said that 90 per cent of seats sold in the last 12 months... [05 Nov 2002]
Lastminute.com staff face job cull
News Online travel firm lastminute.com is aiming to cut costs by axing 70 staff despite claiming last week that it will report a profitable quarter in November. A spokesman for lastminute.com told the Sunday Times: "There's going to be employees who'll... [23 Sep 2002]
Lastminute doubles sales
News Online travel agent lastminute.com has posted results for the April to June quarter and it has more than doubled sales compared to the same period last year. Lastminute managed sales of £61m, up from just £29m. [07 Aug 2002]
Lastminute is turning Japanese
News Lastminute.com CEO Brent Hoberman said in a statement: "Given the Japanese travel market alone is worth approximately E152bn (£91bn) annually, and given the strength of our partners in Japan, we expect lastminute.com to play an important role in... [27 Jun 2002]
Lastminute.com still on share price high
News Shares in lastminute.com were this morning enjoying a further flutter into the green after it announced its £12m acquisition of profitable travel company The Destination Holidays Group. Earlier in the week lastminute.com took a £2.4m share in... [14 Jun 2002]
Lastminute takes a slice of German travel pie
News Lastminute.com has taken a £2.4m share in Lufthansa's online travel centre in a bid to create the largest German online travel agency. As part of the deal, Lastminute will provide and manage the website technology for LCC24.com as well as jointly... [10 Jun 2002]
Lastminute snaps up £9m flight firm
News Shares in lastminute.com jumped this morning after the online travel agent announced it first major UK acquisition. Lastminute said it is buying Travelselect.com - an online flight provider - for £9m. [08 Apr 2002]
lastminute.com is turning Japanese
News Cut-price internet travel shop lastminute.com is in talks with two of the largest travel agents in Japan in an attempt to break into the vast Asian market. The Kinki Nippon Tourist Company and Nippon Travel Agency will produce exclusive travel... [30 Jan 2002]
Lastminute encourages staff to buy its shares
News Online travel agent lastminute.com has set up an employee 'savings scheme' under which staff can buy discounted shares in the company. The company's annual report also reveals that lastminute chief executive and poster boy for dot-com millionaires... [14 Jan 2002]
Peter Cochrane, co-founder, ConceptLabs
News Lastminute.com has been quite successful. What is crippling about the UK is that we can't travel and we have no availability of broadband. Peter Cochrane is a respected futurologist, columnist, former BT CTO and serial entrepreneur, known for... [04 Jan 2002]
Lastminute.com losses get worse
News Lastminute.com also claims it has managed to increase its customer base by nearly 20 per cent in the last three months. In spite of the news, the online travel and leisure retailer claims it will still hit its target of profitability within the... [23 Nov 2001]
Lane Fox says: 'You underestimated me'
News Lastminute is even beginning to talk openly about the 'P' word (ie.profitability - see http://www.silicon.com/a46626 ), and was recently named the UK's most popular travel site, beating the likes of EasyJet and RyanAir. [19 Nov 2001]
Lastminute becomes AOL's preferred partner
News AOL Europe has made Lastminute.com its preferred partner for late travel, entertainment and shopping deals. Lastminute.com is now the most visited travel site in the UK. Findings from research house Jupiter MMXI showed that Lastminute.com edged... [19 Nov 2001]
Lastminute.com is UK's favourite
News Dot-com pioneer Lastminute.com is winning over the hearts of the public and is now the most visited travel site in the UK. Findings from research house Jupiter MMXI show that Lastminute.com has edged ahead of budget rivals Easyjet and Ryanair. [22 Oct 2001]
Lastminute.com just got .NET better
News Visitors to lastminute.com will soon be enjoying the heady mix web services and last-minute travel opportunities. By integrating the Microsoft .NET architecture into its current technology, lastminute.com claims it will be able to make online... [03 Oct 2001]
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