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Clive Jacobs

From humble beginnings, Clive Jacobs built holiday autos into a sector leading business, which was acquired by lastminute.com in March 2003 for £43 million, providing an ROI to his partner ECI ventures of 11.5X. 
 
On the lookout for an unexploited niche in the travel industry, Clive and two partners founded holiday autos in 1987. holiday autos was the first car rental broker in Europe and the first car rental business to offer a pre book-able pre-paid fully inclusive product that was guaranteed in price. In 1995 Clive brought in ECI Ventures to assist him in buying out his original partners. They took a 25% stake in the company.
 
From this point onwards and realising the international opportunity that existed in this still unexploited segment Clive then set about the task of transforming holiday autos from a small successful company, into an established, well respected global business with a turnover in excess of £200 million operating out of 30 counties worldwide. 
 
In 1997 Clive was awarded the World Travel Market Global award for his outstanding contribution to the UK Travel Industry and in 1999 he was voted Director of the Year by PWC and Decision magazine.  In 2000 he was presented with a World Travel Market Tribute 21 award, an accolade given to 21 key individuals who had been instrumental in bringing pioneering changes to the travel industry over the previous 21 years.
 
In 2003, he was inducted into the travel industry's highly prestigious Hall Of Fame, alongside other leading figures including Vladimir Reitz, Billy Butlin, Lord King and Richard Branson.
 
In August 2009 Clive Jacobs completed the acquisition of Travel Weekly from Reed Elsevier and formed Travel Weekly Group Limited which includes the associated brands Travel Weekly (UK), Gazetteers.com, Travolution and their associated websites and events.


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