Pontins is a British holiday company founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin. Sir Fred Pontin (born in the East End of London on 24 October 1906; knighted in 1976; died in Blackpool on 30 September 2000) had a successful career in the citys Stock Exchange. ...
In 1978 the company was sold to Coral in a £56 million deal. In 1980 Coral (including Pontins) was taken over by Bass who later disposed of the Pontinental side of the business. In 1987 Pontins was sold to a management buyout team lead by Trevor Hemmings. In 1989 Pontins was sold yet again, this time to Scottish & Newcastle. Over the next ten years the company closed or sold a number of sites. In a 3-year programme in the mid-1990s, the remaining camps were modernized. In 2000 the company, which now owned only 8 camps, was sold back to Hemmings. Link title 1978 (MCMLXXVIII in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Bass Red Triangle, the first trademark in Britain, has been used for over 150 years to mark bottles of their pale ale. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX in Roman) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scottish & Newcastle is one of the worlds leading brewers, and the largest British brewing company (unless London-based SABMiller, which does very little business in the UK, is counted as British). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
It's headquarter's are located in the Lancashire village of Eccleston near Chorley. Red Lancashire rose Lancashire is a county in the North of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... Eccleston, Chorley, Lancashire Eccleston is a village located in Chorley Borough, Lancashire. ... Map sources for Chorley at grid reference SD583175 Chorley is a market town in Lancashire, England, south of Preston. ...
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Our vision is to become the leading UK holiday company in our market sector, by growing in quality, sales and profitability, and exceeding the expectations of our guests in all areas.
Pontin was also responsible for helping to start the foreign package holiday craze in the 1960s with the construction of a new hotel in Sardinia.
In 1987 Pontins was sold to a management buyout team lead by Trevor Hemmings who'd been involved with Pontins since the late 1960s when his construction company had built the new camps at Southport and Prestatyn.
Although Fred Pontin had deep regrets over the sale of his company, in hindsight it was a good move as the holiday camp industry was set to suffer some major declines throughout the 1980s.
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