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3i and Indigo
Capital sold the business to a management team in 2014 for an undisclosed figure, but which was less than 10% of business's £200m valuation back in 2005. At this time the company owned over 200 coaches, 52 hotels and offered coach, air, rail, cruise and hotels breaks to more than 170
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Happiway Tours to Edwin Holden, who owned Spencers Tours in 1957, but kept the Shearings Tours companies, consolidating them as Shearings Holidays in 1963, before selling the company to the Jackson family of Altrincham in 1964. Jackson had purchased Pleasureways in 1955. Following an
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Leisure (who had acquired The Blundell Group including Smiths Happiways-Spencers in 1982) purchased Shearings Holidays in January 1984. Associated Leisure was in turn bought by Pleasurama in 1987, after which Pleasurama's coaches were first rebranded and then formally merged as Smiths
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Bay Hotels were focused around the communal holiday experience, often with cabaret entertainment. Coast & Country had all been upgraded to at least three-star standard, and offer a more relaxed atmosphere, often with additional facilities such as swimming pools, saunas, fitness rooms and
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Spencer's Tours and Happiway Tours from Edwin Holden in 1968, merging both companies to form Happiway-Spencers. By 1975 Blundell's coaches were branded as Smiths Happiway-Spencers, and in 1980 the company Smiths Happiway-Spencers was formed, consolidating Blundell's coach
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Blundell began his coach operation with just one coach in 1950, later purchasing
Blundells Coaches (Southport) Limited in 1952, Enterprise Coaches in 1955, Poole's Coaches in 1958 and Tootle's Tours in 1960. This portfolio of companies formed Blundell Holiday Group.
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Specialist Leisure Group Limited which renamed itself Shearings Leisure Group Limited between 2016 and 2018, until reverting to their prior name. In April 2016, the business was purchased by
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Britannia Excelsior in
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National Holidays. This was the former East Yorkshire Travel, a subsidiary of the
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