The most recent cabins, designed by Holder Mathias, opened in Sherwood Forest in March 2012
Gary Fletcher, CEO, Forest Holidays
What is your career background? I did a sports degree and went into lei- sure management. I went into property development, fell on challenging times and came across a job with the Camping and Caravanning Club. I planned to be there for six months and stayed for six years. The Forestry Commission put the Forest Holidays tender out in December 2004 and I was charged to win it. We relaunched
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Forest Holidays in May 2006, with a camping and cabin business.
What drove the recent MBO? We did pretty well from 2006 to 2011, but to develop 70 cabins in virgin for- est takes quite a bit of money. So the primary driver was to find the funding to allow a very popular business to grow and reach its full potential. We want to roll out the business model:
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