On The Beach Group
Simon Cooper is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of On the Beach. Simon began his career in the travel industry while attending university when he founded the ski holiday company On the Piste Travel Limited in 1996, which went on to be purchased by Thomson (now TUI) in 2008.
On the Beach was created in 2004 as a sister company, specializing in beach holidays and running on a platform operated by Teletext Holidays, with bookings taken via a call center. The Company launched its first website in 2004 and expanded rapidly, securing private equity investment from Livingbridge in 2007 and going on to secure further investment from Inflexion private equity in 2013. Simon led the business through its IPO in 2015 and its entry into the FTSE 250 in 2018.
Simon is also a Non-Executive Director of CurrentBody.com Limited.
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On The Beach Group
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On the Beach Group plc is a United Kingdom-based online travel agent. The Company operates in two segments: Core and International. The Company's core segment conducts its activity through the United Kingdom Website (UK). The Company's international segment conducts its activity through Swedish Website (eBeach.se). The Company is an online retailer of beach short-haul beach holidays, primarily targeting customers in the United Kingdom under the On the Beach brand. The Company's technology platform enables customers to package the constituent components of their holiday (including flights, hotels and transfers) to build custom-made holidays from a range of flight and hotel combinations. The Company offers customers a range of flight and hotel products bookable through online channels (including by desktop, mobiles, tablets and applications) and over the phone. The Company's subsidiaries include On the Beach Beds Limited and On the Beach Travel Limited.