COSMOS has insisted that all jobs are safe despite the imminent merger of its back-office functions with sister company Avro.
The pledge came as the operator announced all its operations, including the flight-only specialist, will move to offices in Bromley North by the end of May.
Cosmos currently has a number of offices in Bromley which house sister companies Cosmos Coach Tours and long-haul specialist Distant Dreams while Avro is based in Wimbledon.
The relocation will lead to the merger of Cosmos and Avro’s finance and Information Technology departments, a move that the company feared would lead to job losses (Travel Weekly July 19).
Managing director Nigel Wright said: “The department will be completely reorganised but all staff will be retained. With the move towards e-commerce, there will be a role for everyone.
“The marketing and commercial departments of Cosmos and Avro will remain separate however.”
He added that Avro staff had reacted positively to the move.
“Everyone realises the importance of being under one roof,” said Wright.
Meanwhile, Cosmos has reshaped its product team following the appointment of Unijet general marketing manager Owen Whitehead to the role of head of beach products.
It has also recruited Darren Lancaster and Natasha Shane from First Choice who will head up villas and all-inclusive and winter sun and Golden Times respectively. Both will report to Whitehead.
Senior long-haul product manager David Binns becomes head of specialist products with Chris Medd moving to product manager after holding an overseas managerial position.
In a separate move, Brian Young has been recruited from JMC, where he was senior area manager for Majorca and Minorca, to take on the position of overseas operations manager.