{"id":20703,"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-2\/"},"modified":"2013-09-20T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T03:34:00","slug":"flight-centre-limited-to-become-flight-centre-travel-group-limited-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/09\/flight-centre-limited-to-become-flight-centre-travel-group-limited-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Centre Limited to become Flight Centre Travel Group Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">source: Travel Daily<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Flight Centre has just announced plans to amend its name, to highlight  its &quot;diversity and growth in corporate travel and in niche leisure travel  sectors&quot;.<\/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&#39;s best interests, and reinforces the depth of its business, &quot;a  strength that is sometimes overlooked&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>MD Graham Turner said that &quot;FLT is now the holding entity that sits  behind more than thirty brands, in addition to the iconic Flight Centre  brand.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;While Flight Centre brand remains a key part of our business, we are  also Australia&#39;s largest corporate travel manager via the FCm, Corporate  Traveller, cievents, Stage &amp; Screen and Campus Travel brands,&quot; he  added.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed name change is subject to approval by shareholders at this  year&#39;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&#39;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 &quot;diversity and growth in corporate travel and in niche leisure travel sectors&quot;. 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&#39;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-20703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20703","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=20703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}