Spear Travels has Bought Neil Rankin

Spear Travels has bought Neil Rankin Travel in Skipton for an undisclosed sum.

The acquisition brings the Yorkshire-based independent agency's network to nine.

The group already trades in five Yorkshire locations: Boroughbridge, Helmsley, Northallerton, Leyburn and Stokesley, with three other shops in Upminster, Essex, Tettenham, West Midlands, and Stock on Trent, Staffordshire. It also has 16 home-based travel advisors.

It is the company's second acquisition this year. In January it bought Roy Cox Travel. It merged the agency with its existing Wolverhampton branch, which relocated to Roy Cox Travel's premises in Tettenhall.

Managing director Peter Cookson said: "We are very happy to add Skipton to our growing portfolio of outlets and we welcome customers of Neil Rankin Travel, past and present, to our business. We are looking forward to building on the excellent reputation that Neil and his team have built in the town over years."

Cookson told Travel Weekly News in January that the company, which recently celebrated 30 years in business, had a six-figure was chest and hoped to expand its high-street chain to 15 branches.

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