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JEANNETTE LINFOOT
Saga Tour Operating Division
The managing director of Saga’s four tour operating brands tells Lucy Huxley how she plans to double the business within five years
doing well’, she’s not joking. It’s exactly 12 months since
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she joined the over-50s holiday specialist and she’s already over- achieved her 2016 budget, says she will deliver a five-year plan set in 2013 to double the division’s profitability a year early, and has set her own new five-year plan, which she says will see the division double in volume and revenue by 2021-22 – all profitably. It’s an ambitious target, but
Linfoot says the numbers are all based on organic growth of the four businesses in her portfolio – Saga Holidays, Saga Cruises, Titan Travel and Destinology – not on acquisitions. “We are going to double the size of the division and there’s nothing in the plan to say we have to buy businesses to get there,” she says. But she adds: “We wouldn’t rule out acquisitions. There
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hen Jeannette Linfoot says ‘if something’s worth doing, it’s worth
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