lastminute.com online travel
Brent Hoberman
AS Profile Few could have begrudged Brent Hoberman quietly idling off into a life of leisure after pocketing £26m from the sale of lastminute.com, the company he co-founded with Martha Lane Fox in 2005. Still only... [07 Oct 2008]
Leader: Web brands take the battle to the high street
Leader Lastminute.com now has travel agency shops in train stations and around cities. Online bookie bluesqure.com is building its own casinos. Amazon, the... [21 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.03.06
Round-Up Moving on, one established online brand, lastminute.com, found itself thrust into the spotlight this week following a ruling by the Advertising Standards Agency relating to some of the... [17 Mar 2006]
Lastminute slammed by watchdog over smutty ads
News Watchdog the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) has rapped Lastminute.com over the knuckles after receiving complaints that its ads were too saucy. The ASA received complaints from several members of... [20 Jan 2005]
easyJet wants CRM ROI right here RightNow
News Besides easyJet, its clients include BA, Lastminute.com's Holiday Autos and Opodo. RightNow has made headway selling its hosted customer self-service and management technology across various sectors but... [15 Dec 2004]
Lastminute cuts 350 jobs
News The 350 job losses will significantly reduce Lastminute.com's 2,400 strong workforce and come after a acquisition-laden few months that have seen the company buy up lastminute.de,... [06 Aug 2004]
lastminute.com splashes out €46.7m for lastminute.de
News lastminute.com has paid €46.7m in cash and shares to two entrepreneurs for a clutch of German companies, the lastminute.de operation and the lastminute.tv domain name.... [30 Jun 2004]
Opodo stake snapped up
News Opodo set up in the UK in 2002 but, after a promising start, has struggled to match the high traffic of competitors such as Expedia and Lastminute, although the loss-making site does fare better with its properties in... [16 Jun 2004]
Lastminute lays into railways over unfair competition
News The French arm of online travel agent lastminute.com has accused France's national railway company, the SNCF, of stepping outside its public service remit by selling... [27 May 2004]
Lastminute cuts losses and stays cheerful
News Lastminute chairman Alan Leighton said in a statement: "The indications are that there will be excess capacity in the market as we move towards the key summer quarter and that the demand for late travel... [13 May 2004]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Time to travel
Comment While a host of online travel companies have fallen by the wayside and there are still those who predict a bid for Lastminute.com by a more old-fashioned... [13 Apr 2004]
Martha Lane Fox sells £4.6m of lastminute shares
News Dot-com darling Martha Lane Fox has sold two million shares in lastminute.com - the company that she co-founded with Brent Hoberman in 1998. Lane Fox stepped down from her position as MD... [09 Mar 2004]
Lastminute.com splashes out £55m on OTC
News Serial-acquirer lastminute.com has detailed the terms of its latest purchase - a £55m bid for the Online Travel Corporation (OTC). The all-shares deal would see... [03 Mar 2004]
lastminute.com Adopts Microsoft .NET Technologies To Enhance Communication With Customers
White Paper Dedicated to providing its customers with online travel and entertainment solutions, lastminute.com has adopted Microsoft’s dynamic .NET Framework and XML Web Services... [25 Feb 2004]
Online travel giants battle to be web favourite
News The research, from internet watcher Nielsen NetRatings, revealed that expedia.co.uk, not lastminute.com, may well be the UK leader in online travel shopping. According... [29 Jan 2004]
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