Now Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, CBE, which travel company did this British businesswoman start?
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Lastminute.com lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer. The company was founded by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman in 1998 and was a part of the UK internet boom of the late 1990s, part of the dot com bubble and trading on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol 'LMC'.
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Martha Lane Fox Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, CBE (born 10 February 1973) is a British businesswoman, philanthropist and public servant.
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Val Gooding Val Gooding CBE was Chief Executive of Bupa, from 1998 to May 2008. She was awarded the CBE for services to business in 2002. She has been credited various entrepreneur awards since her Executiveship. "Fortune" magazine calls her one of the most successful women. She was named as the highest earning female executive in Britain during 2004, being paid more than £1.4 million in salary and bonuses.
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Sally Arkley Sally Arkley, MBE, is the managing director, Women's Business Development Agency, Coventry, Warwickshire. In 2008, she was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. and, in 2010, she was awarded the MBE.
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La Pausa La Pausa is a large detached villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It was designed and built by the French fashion designer Coco Chanel in the early 1930s, and owned by Chanel until 1953. La Pausa was sold by Chanel to the Hungarian publisher Emery Reves. The former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spent roughly a third year at La Pausa from 1956 to 1958 with Reves and his wife, Wendy, and wrote and edited part of his "History of the English Speaking Peoples" there. La Pausa was occupied by Wendy Reves until 2007. The principal rooms of La Pausa and its significant art collection were recreated at the Dallas Museum of Art during her lifetime and under her direction. The Reves wing was opened in 1985.
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Karen Hanton Karen Hanton is a Scottish entrepreneur, known for founding JustAddRed, Toptable and Mortimer & Spinks. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2010.
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Serena Rees Serena Rees (born 14 March 1968) is a British businesswoman best known for cofounding Agent Provocateur with her then husband Joseph Corré.
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Geoffrey Kent Geoffrey JW Kent (Born July 14, 1942) is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Abercrombie & Kent, an international luxury travel company.
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Tony Wheeler Tony Wheeler (born 20 December 1946) {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , is an English-Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and travel writer, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife Maureen Wheeler.
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Daunt Books Daunt Books is a chain of bookshops in London, founded by James Daunt. It traditionally specialised in travel books. In 2010 it began publishing.
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San Lorenzo (restaurant) San Lorenzo (formally La Bottega Del San Lorenzo) is an upmarket restaurant located at 22 Beauchamp Place in Knightsbridge, London. It was said to have been the favourite London restaurant of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs (born 24 April 1983) is an English aristocrat, socialite and founder of Beulah London.
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Mike Coupe Paul antony lane (born 4 april 1973), is a British businessman, the CEO of J Sainsbury plc, parent company of the supermarket chain Sainsbury's since July 2014.
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Annoushka Ducas Annoushka Ducas MBE is jewellery designer, creative director and entrepreneur who founded British jewellery companies Links of London and Annoushka.
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The Dorchester The Dorchester is a five-star luxury hotel on Park Lane and Deanery Street, London, to the east of Hyde Park. It is one of the world's most prestigious and expensive hotels. The Dorchester opened on 18 April 1931, and still retains its 1930s furnishings and ambiance despite being modernised.
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Alice Temperley Alice Temperley MBE (born 22 July 1975) is a British fashion designer based in London. Her fashion label, Temperley London was launched in 2000.
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Bertha González Nieves Bertha González Nieves (born May 6, 1970, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican businesswoman, whose career is rooted in the consumer luxury goods market.
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Audley Travel Audley Travel is a travel company based in the UK based in Witney, Oxfordshire, with offices in London and Boston. The company specialises in tailor-made travel, according to the Financial Times it is the largest operator in this market.
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Silversea Cruises Silversea Cruises is a privately owned luxury cruise line with its headquarters in Monaco. Founded in 1994, it pioneered all-inclusive cruising with its first ship, "Silver Cloud".
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Fox's Biscuits Fox's Biscuits is a British biscuit manufacturer, founded by the Fox family in a terrace house, 17 Whitaker Street, Batley in West Yorkshire in 1853. The head office and main factory are still based in the town with two further sites at Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, and at Kirkham in Lancashire. Its biscuits are also exported to Europe, North America and the Far East. The house in Whittaker Street still stands. The company was purchased by Northern Foods in 1977, which was acquired by 2 Sisters Food Group in 2011.
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Travel Express Travel Express is a bus company based in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.
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Ben's Cookies Ben’s Cookies is a chain of shops in England and elsewhere that bakes and sells chewy biscuits. It was founded in 1983 by Helge Rubinstein and co-founded by Karen Brooke Barnett. The company's logo was created by the British artist Quentin Blake.