Cox & Kings
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| Public limited company | |
| Traded as | : NSE: COX&KINGS |
| Industry |
Travel Tourism |
| Founded | 1758 |
| Founder | Richard Cox |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
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Area served
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Global |
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Key people
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A. B. M. Good (Non Executive Chairman) Urrshila Kerkar (Executive Director) Peter Kerkar (Non Executive Director) |
| Products | Leisure, Education and Hybrid Hotels |
| Revenue | Rs.2,569 Crores(FY 2014-15) EBITDA: Rs.1,064 Crores(FY 2014-15) |
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Number of employees
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3703 |
| Website | www |
Cox & Kings Ltd., set up in 1758, is one of the longest established travel companies. Headquartered in India, the holiday and education travel group has subsidiaries in the US, Canada, the UK, Netherlands, the UAE, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Cox & Kings Ltd. has operations spread across 22 countries and 4 continents.
Historically, Cox & Kings Ltd. has been an army agent, a travel agent, a printer and publisher. It has also worked as a news agent, cargo agent, ship-owner, banker, insurance agent, and dealer of several travel-related activities. Its core activities now include the sale of packaged holidays for leisure travel.
Cox & Kings Ltd. is a premium brand in corporate travel, education and activity travel, meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions (MICE), trade fairs, visa processing and foreign exchange.
Mr. Cox was born in Yorkshire in 1718. His father had made a good living as a lawyer and had moved from his birthplace in Clent in Worcestershire to Yorkshire. He then bought an estate near Quarley in Hampshire. Richard Cox came into the service of a General, Lord Ligonier, as a clerk in the early 1740s. In 1747 he married Caroline Codrington, daughter of Sir William Codrington who was an established military figure.
Cox's career took off when Lord Ligonier led the Flanders campaigns of the War of the Austrian Succession. In one letter sent back to London, Richard Cox makes a demand that "suitable winter provisions and housing should be made available for the three English companies" and he became entwined with logistics and the general welfare of the troops. Ligonier made Cox his private secretary in the late 1740s, went on to become the colonel of the First Foot Guards (Grenadier Guards) in 1757, and rewarded Cox with the post of 'military agent' after the incumbent died in May 1758. Thus was born Cox & Co.
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