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<\/a> Is Thomas Cook about to get a new owner? <\/b>The high-profile UK-based holidays group, a fixture of Egypt\u2019s tourism industry since the late 1800s, could soon have new owners. With its share price down about 80% in the past year, Thomas Cook is shopping itself to investors that include private equity outfits KKR and EQT as well as \u201cacquisitive Chinese group Fosun International,\u201d the Financial Times<\/a> reports. The FT was picking up on a Sky News story<\/a> that says the prospective buyers are each interested in the group as a whole or part thereof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Thomas Cook about to get a new owner? The high-profile UK-based holidays group, a fixture of Egypt\u2019s tourism industry since the late 1800s, could soon have new owners. With its share price down about 80% in the past year, Thomas Cook is shopping itself to investors that include private equity outfits KKR and EQT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,7128,2380,9378,238],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-603411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-ma-watch","tag-speed-round","tag-thomas-cook","tag-tourism","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"6ef48805-28fa-46f7-b4e8-fd4741eb2de7","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"29c6dca3-4097-481a-b866-7347003b16bc","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[603399],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nIs Thomas Cook about to get a new owner? - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/04\/22\/is-thomas-cook-about-to-get-a-new-owner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Thomas Cook about to get a new owner?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Is Thomas Cook about to get a new owner? 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