John Arthur Fentener van Vlissingen (born 4 March 1939 in
Utrecht
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) is a Dutch businessman. He is one of the wealthiest people in
the Netherlands
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and has made major investments in the
travel industry. The total capital of the family is, according to ''Quote'' magazine, around 9.2 billion euros. The wealth of Fentener van Vlissingen was calculated to be €1.6 billion in ''Quote 500''.
Of the three brothers (Frits, who died in March 2006, and
Paul, who died in August 2006) only John Fentener van Vlissingen's career was not with the family company,
SHV Holdings
SHV Holdings is a privately owned Dutch trading company, regarded as one of the world's largest private trading groups. SHV is a highly diversified company, with interests in transport, retail, oil, food and financial services. It currently employs ...
. He began his own company,
BCD Holdings N.V., a market leader in the travel industry.
BCD Holdings began as a
real estate
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...
company in 1975 as Property Management Advisory Services. In 1976, the company was renamed NORO since the name NIRO was already appropriated.
[''The Art of Enterprise-BCD Holdings 1975-2000'' ] In 1986 BCD was founded, after the separation of Noro management advisories and investments by the establishment of BCD.
In 1987, WorldTravel Advisors was purchased. In 1999, WorldTravel Advisors merged with BTI Americas to form WorldTravel BTI. In 2006, WorldTravel BTI was renamed BCD Travel with the takeover of the German company, TQ3, and the dissolution of the BTI brand, thus creating the third largest travel company in the United States.
See also
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BCD Travel
BCD Group (formerly BCD Holdings N.V.) is a privately owned Dutch company and consists of BCD Travel (global corporate travel management and its subsidiaries ''BCD Meetings & Events'', global meetings and events agency, and ''Advito'', global b ...
References
External links
Website BCD GroupWebsite BCD TravelWebsite TravixWebsite Park 'N FlyWebsite AirtradeWebsite ParkMobile International
1939 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Utrecht (city)
Dutch billionaires
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