Mainstream Sector Structure Changes (6190B)
18 April 2012 - 5:16PM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 6190B
TUI Travel PLC
18 April 2012
18 April 2012
TUI Travel PLC ("TUI Travel")
TUI Travel PLC changes to Mainstream Sector structure
Following the promotion last year of Johan Lundgren to the
position of Deputy Chief Executive of TUI Travel PLC with overall
responsibility for its Mainstream Sector, a review of the Sector
has been conducted. Having concluded the review, the Group is today
announcing a number of changes to the Sector structure and its
senior management team which will accelerate its move to modern
mainstream and being online driven.
The regional structure of the Sector - Northern, Central Europe
and Western Europe - is to be disbanded and a Mainstream Sector
Board will be formed. Source market Managing Directors will be
directly responsible and accountable for their businesses
performance. Reflecting the importance of the Group's two largest
source markets, UK & Ireland and Germany, their Managing
Directors will be promoted to the Group Management Board.
Volker Bottcher, currently Managing Director, Central Europe,
will now focus on the German Specialist Businesses as well as the
source markets of Austria, Poland and Switzerland. Volker will sit
on the Mainstream Sector Board and will remain on TUI Travel's
Group Management Board and the PLC Board. In addition, he will
become a member of the TUI Deutschland Supervisory Board. Christian
Clemens, currently Managing Director TUI Nordic, will take over as
Managing Director TUI Deutschland in July. The principal businesses
which Christian will be responsible for are TUI Deutschland which
includes the brands of TUI and 1-2-Fly amongst others, TUIfly and
all distribution channels. With 23 years in the leisure travel
industry, he has been a key member of the Group's Nordic management
team, with initial responsibility for Fritidsresor and latterly,
when Johan Lundgren moved to the UK, taking overall responsibility
for all the Nordic businesses and has been instrumental in
implementing a very successful modern mainstream model in the
Nordic region.
The Group is pleased to announce that Henrik Norlin will replace
Christian Clemens as Managing Director TUI Nordic. Henrik has been
with the business for 13 years, most recently in the position of
Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director TUI Nordic.
Bart Brackx, Managing Director Western Europe, last year
indicated that he would like to have more time to pursue personal
and family interests. As a result of this he will focus on TUI
Belgium until the end of the current financial year. The Group is
delighted that Bart will continue to be involved with the Company
as a consultant and also take up the position of Chairman of Honour
of TUI Travel in Belgium. Retaining Bart's experience and expertise
in an advisory capacity will be enormously beneficial to the Group.
Elie Bruyninckx, currently Chief Executive Officer for Belgium will
take on full responsibility for Belgium, Italy and Spain from
October.
As previously stated, both David Burling, Managing Director of
TUI UK & Ireland and Christian Clemens, Managing Director, TUI
Deutschland will join the Group Management Board.
The changes as outlined above will come into effect between now
and 1 October 2012. The Sector will continue to report financially
within the current regional structure until the year ending 30
September 2012.
Commenting, Peter Long, Chief Executive, TUI Travel said, "Our
current Mainstream Sector structure has served us very well since
the creation of TUI Travel in 2007 and the Board and I are
extremely grateful to both Volker and Bart for their enormous
contribution to our continuing success. Both the Group and I
personally, value their counsel, their experience and their loyalty
and Johan and I are pleased that they will remain with the Group.
Looking forward, I believe that the changes announced today will
enable Johan and his senior management team to deliver on our
ambition for our Mainstream businesses to be the most efficient and
profitable in the world whilst providing customers with unique
holiday experiences. Johan has my full support as well as that of
the Board in putting these changes into effect."
Johan Lundgren, Deputy Chief Executive and MD Mainstream Sector,
TUI Travel said, "I know that these changes will give us the
opportunity to build on our current success and accelerate our
strategy of differentiated product, controlled distribution and
reducing costs. It will also allow us to fully leverage both the
strength of knowledge across the Sector and the scale of the Group.
I would like to add my thanks to those of Peter and the Board for
the enormous contribution Volker and Bart have made in developing
and delivering on our strategy to date and look forward to
continuing to work with them in their new roles."
Enquiries:
Analysts & Investors
Will Waggott, Chief Financial Officer Tel: +44 (0)1582 645 334
Andy Long, Head of Strategy & Investor Relations Tel: +44 (0)1293 645 795
Press
Lesley Allan, Corporate Communications Director Tel: +44 (0)1293 645 774
Michael Sandler (Hudson Sandler) Tel: +44 (0)20 7796 4133
TUI Travel PLC is one of the world's leading international
leisure travel groups operating in approximately 180 countries
worldwide. It serves more than 30 million customers in over 31
source markets. Headquartered in the UK, the Group employs
approximately 53,000 people and operates a pan-European airline
consisting of 145 aircraft. The Group is organised and managed
through four business Sectors: Mainstream, Specialist &
Activity, Accommodation & Destinations and Emerging Markets. In
the financial year ended 30 September 2011, TUI Travel reported
revenues of GBP14.7bn and an underlying operating profit of
GBP471m.TUI Travel is listed on the London Stock Exchange as a
member of the FTSE 250 and FTSE4Good Indices.
The Mainstream Sector is the largest sector in the TUI Travel
Group, in terms of its scale and scope, financial performance and
number of employees and provides holidays to over 20 million
customers per year. In 2011 the Sector had revenues of GBP12.7bn
and underlying operating profits of GBP370m.
The Mainstream companies are market leaders in their source
markets, have instantly recognisable brands, combined have
approximately 3,500 retail travel shops and a fleet of 145
aircraft. Many of the brands in the sector are household names
including TUI, Thomson, Arke, Jetair and Fritidsresor.
Increasingly, the tour operators sell holiday concepts that can
only be bought from those brands including: Blue Village (TUI
Nordics), Sensatori (Thomson), Sensimar (TUI Deutschland) and
Holiday Villages (First Choice)
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