HomeAway
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| Subsidiary of Expedia, Inc. | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: EXPE S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Travel |
| Founded | February 2005 |
| Founders | Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, U.S. |
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Key people
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John Kim (President) Trent York (CFO) Jeff Hurst (CCO) Tina Weyand (CPO) John J. Ostlund (CTO) Steve Davis (CIO) Jeff Mosler (CSO) |
| Services | Vacation Rentals |
| Website | HomeAway.com |
HomeAway, Inc. is a vacation rental marketplace with more than 1,000,000 vacation rental listings in 190 countries, and has 1588 employees. It has operated through 40 websites in 22 languages as of December 31, 2014. The company offers the most comprehensive selection of rentals for families and groups to find accommodations such as cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns and farm houses. Founded in February 2005 and headquartered in Austin, the company became a publicly traded company in 2011. On November 4, 2015, Expedia, Inc. announced its intention to buy HomeAway.
HomeAway, Inc. was founded in 2004 as CEH Holdings. The company acquired several sites and consolidated them into a single vacation marketplace, launching HomeAway.com in June 2006.
The acquisitions that HomeAway has made include:
HomeAway moved into its new global headquarters in Austin, Texas on October 2, 2009; it was the first mixed-use project and the second company in Austin to achieve LEED Gold certification for Commercial Interior Design.
On November 18, 2009, Us Weekly magazine announced that HomeAway would reunite actors Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo in a new short film and advertising campaign based on National Lampoon’s Vacation (a movie). The HomeAway ad represents the company’s first national advertising campaign that debuted during the CBS television network broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010.
Before going public in mid-2011, HomeAway raised a total of $405 million in venture-capital which was funded by venture capital firms Austin Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Technology Crossover Ventures and Trident Capital. Currently, Homeaway’s valuation is approximately $2.9 billion. Homeaway’s IPO stock closed at $40.21 on Nasdaq, up 48.9% from its IPO price of $27. The stock price has since hovered around $35.
On 5 March 2014, the company announced that through an all-cash transaction, it acquired the U.S. mobile application ‘Glad to Have You’ (GLAD).
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