{"id":17477,"date":"2013-09-20T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/flight-centre-limited-to-become-flight-centre-travel-group-limited\/"},"modified":"2013-09-20T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T03:34:00","slug":"flight-centre-limited-to-become-flight-centre-travel-group-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/09\/flight-centre-limited-to-become-flight-centre-travel-group-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Centre Limited to become Flight Centre Travel Group Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">source: Travel Daily<\/p>\n<div><span><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Flight Centre has just announced plans to amend its name, to highlight  its &#8220;diversity and growth in corporate travel and in niche leisure travel  sectors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Stock Exchange update, the Flight Centre board believe  that the name change, to Flight Centre Travel Group Limited, is in the  company&#8217;s best interests, and reinforces the depth of its business, &#8220;a  strength that is sometimes overlooked&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>MD Graham Turner said that &#8220;FLT is now the holding entity that sits  behind more than thirty brands, in addition to the iconic Flight Centre  brand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Flight Centre brand remains a key part of our business, we are  also Australia&#8217;s largest corporate travel manager via the FCm, Corporate  Traveller, cievents, Stage &#038; Screen and Campus Travel brands,&#8221; he  added.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed name change is subject to approval by shareholders at this  year&#8217;s Flight Centre annual general meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Flight Centre also announced the retirement of non-executive director  Peter Barrow, and the appointment of Sydney-based partner in accounting  firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, Robert Baker, who will join the board  effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>More information in today&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Travel  Daily.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source: Travel Daily Flight Centre has just announced plans to amend its name, to highlight its &#8220;diversity and growth in corporate travel and in niche leisure travel sectors&#8221;. According to a Stock Exchange update, the Flight Centre board believe that the name change, to Flight Centre Travel Group Limited, is in the company&#8217;s best interests, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}