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Affordable Car Hire presented a cheque for more than £3,700 to Just a Drop at World Travel Market in London. The charity provides clean water and sanitation to communities all over the world, and was sponsored by Affordable at WTM, where staff collected money in buckets to bring in further donations. From left: Angela Day, Affordable Car Hire; Fiona Jeffery and Brendan Hanlon, both Just a Drop; and Hayley Attwood and James Moore, both Affordable Car Hire. › Affordable unveils Xtras website, page 21
Miles Morgan’s Gloucester store will be its largest yet
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
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Miles Morgan Travel’s 15th store is set to open in a former coffee shop in the centre of Gloucester and become the miniple’s highest-turnover branch.
The travel agency chain will open the store on December 12 at a shop previously occupied by a Starbucks in East Gate Street, near to three other agencies: Thomson, Thomas Cook and Co-operative
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Travel, part of The Midcounties Co-operative. Joe Teixeira, former manager of the Midcounties store, will join as manager at the end of January, while a further four staff are being sought for the new branch. There will be a total of 10 staff in
full and part-time roles. Owner Miles Morgan said the
store was likely to become the biggest in the agency chain in turnover terms, overtaking its Bath shop. It will feature 10 desks, more than any other Miles Morgan Travel branch. Morgan said: “It will probably be bigger than Bath going forward in turnover. It’s right in the middle of our patch and because of that we will be a well-known name. “Our experience of opening in [formerly non-travel] shops has
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been great; the performance of our most recent store in Cirencester has been nothing short of sensational.” Morgan said there were plans
to open further agencies over the next “couple of years”, but said the miniple was unlikely to grow to more than 20 shops. “I don’t want a large impersonal business,” he added.
Hays Travel seeks to boost business travel with Nugent takeover
Hays Travel has bought Crewe- based 3D Travel and corporate travel company Christine Nugent Business Travel in Gateshead. 3D Travel was already part of
Hays Travel Independence Group consortium and will be rebranded with all staff kept on. Hays retail and training director Jane Schumm said: “It’s fantastic we can support the future of retail travel as well as safeguarding jobs in the area.” Christine Nugent will join Hays
Travel to head the company’s corporate travel division. Hays will retain the Christine Nugent Business Travel brand and all staff will join the Hays Travel team. Hays Travel managing director
John Hays said: “By merging Christine Nugent Business Travel’s specialist expertise and loyal client base with Hays Travel’s size and technology, we should have the right kind of platform to grow the corporate travel part of the business significantly.” Nugent, who has spent 32
years developing her business, said: “Hays Travel invests heavily in technology, meaning we will be able to offer both offline and online travel management services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
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