A TRAVEL company is set to re-open 78 stores - including ones in Street and Frome - from April 12. The Midcounties Co-operative is opening its travel agency branches under the new name of Your Co-op Travel (formerly Co-operative Travel). Over time, all the stores will change the signage on their shop fronts to Your Co-op Travel. Natalie Turner, head of retail for Your Co-op Travel, said: “We’re hugely excited to be re-opening our branches on April 12. We can’t wait to welcome customers back into the branches and to be able to offer them that, all-important, face-to-face contact with a travel expert again.”
Your Co-op Travel is the new name of the Midcounties Co-operative travel agency chain A TRAVEL agency with branches in Melksham, Swindon and Warminster is to change its name ahead of reopening on Monday April 12. The Midcounties Co-operative is rebranding its name to Your Co-op Travel when it reopens re-open all 78 of its high street travel agency branches across the UK. They include five in Wiltshire and Somerset - the other two are in Frome and Street. Natalie Turner, head of retail for Your Co-op Travel, said: “We’re hugely excited to be re-opening our branches on 12 April. We can’t wait to welcome customers back into the branches and to be able to offer them that, all-important, face-to-face contact with a travel expert again.”
Your Co-op Travel is the new name of the Midcounties Co-operative travel agency chain A TRAVEL agency with branches in Melksham, Swindon and Warminster is to change its name ahead of reopening on Monday April 12. The Midcounties Co-operative is rebranding its name to Your Co-op Travel when it reopens re-open all 78 of its high street travel agency branches across the UK. They include five in Wiltshire and Somerset - the other two are in Frome and Street. Natalie Turner, head of retail for Your Co-op Travel, said: “We’re hugely excited to be re-opening our branches on 12 April. We can’t wait to welcome customers back into the branches and to be able to offer them that, all-important, face-to-face contact with a travel expert again.”
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Octopus Energy will begin supplying electricity to homes in Japan after striking a deal with Tokyo Gas that values the company at more than $2billion (£1.5billion).
The agreement will see Octopus - one of the biggest challenger providers in the UK - enter the Japanese market as part of a 30:70 joint venture with Tokyo Gas.
Under the deal, Tokyo Gas, the largest utility company in Japan, will also buy a 9.7 per cent stake in Octopus for $200million (£150million).
Far reaching tentacles: Octopus Energy will begin supplying electricity to homes in Japan
Octopus Energy is now one of the biggest challenger providers in the UK, holding 5.7 per cent of the domestic market following its acquisition of Co-op Energy in August 2019 and ENGIE in January 2020.