Park Holidays UK
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| Private Limited Company | |
| Industry | Leisure / Holiday |
| Predecessor | Cinque Ports Leisure Ltd (to January 2007) |
| Founded | 1984 (original co.) |
| Founder | Peter Bull & Jim Watson |
| Headquarters | Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex |
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Number of locations
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26 caravan holiday parks in southern England |
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Key people
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Jeffrey Sills |
| Services | Operation of holiday home parks |
| Revenue |
 £106.6m (2014) |
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£22.6m (2014) |
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| Profit |
£16.2m (2014) |
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Number of employees
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579 (average, 2012) |
| Website | www |
Park Holidays UK operate 26 holiday parks in the South of England and are the largest holiday park operator along the South Coast. The company also carries out conservation work in the areas around their parks and have been awarded the David Bellamy Conservation award for their efforts. Park Holidays UK are also members of the British Holiday and Home Parks Association (BH&HPA) and the National Caravan Council, in which all of their holiday parks were awarded the ‘Approved Holiday Park’ by the NCC.
The company was originally called Cinque Ports Leisure, founded by Peter Bull and Jim Watson in the mid 1980s. Frenchmans Beach at Rye Harbour was the first park to be owned, and as the company expanded to include other Kent and East Sussex parks the name Cinque Ports Leisure was introduced to emphasize the regional base, Cinque Ports being a collection of five Kent and East Sussex ports.
The company significantly expanded in 2001 with the purchase of ten parks from Haven Holidays, which extended the company's presence west into Dorset and Hampshire and north into Essex and Suffolk.
In total, Park Holidays UK now operates five Parks in Devon (Riviera Bay, Landscove, Waterside, Dawlish Sands, Golden Sands) one in Dorset (Sandhills), one in Hampshire (Solent Breezes), five in Sussex (Beauport, Coghurst Hall, Chichester Lakeside, Winchelsea Sands, Rye Harbour Holiday Park), six in Kent (Marlie, New Beach, Alberta, Seaview, Harts, Birchington Vale), four in Essex (Steeple Bay, Oaklands, Seawick, St Osyth Beach) and three in Suffolk (Felixstowe Beach, Suffolk Sands, Broadland Sands).
In 2006 the business was sold to Graphite Capital, with Peter Bull continuing his involvement, and in 2007 he was awarded the Ernst & Young London Overall & Master Entrepreneur of the Year award.
The company changed name to Park Holidays UK in 2007, reflecting its more national coverage having plans to expand into South Devon the following year.
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