Report by Steve Jones
THOMSON Travel Group is set to make sweeping changes which
are expected to lead to a raft of redundancies just before Christmas.
Staff face an anxious 60-day wait while 14 specially formed
working parties scrutinise the business following its £1.8 billion takeover by
German giant Preussag.
The move follows far reaching proposals to merge a number of
key Thomson departments with Hanover-based TUI, the tour operating arm of
Preussag.
Thomson’s 25 strong strategic management department,
headed by John Wells, has already been disbanded with all functions relocated
to Germany. Wells will leave the group at the end of January.