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eDreams is the leading online travel agency in Southern Europe. Its head-office is situated in Barcelona, Spain and it has also office in Italy. It focuses on offering the best selection of flights, hotels and vacation packages through the use of innovative search, packaging and booking engines via its websites (in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German). Clients are offered all these services in a comfortable, simple manner through state-of-the-art booking and search engine technology. They include traditional airline and low cost flights, offering the best prices in the market to its clients.
More than six million clients have reserved their hotels, flights and holiday package deals at eDreams since the company first started its activities. eDreams is the largest online travel agency in terms of sales in Southern Europe.
A success story
eDreams was founded in March 1999 in Silicon Valley by Javier Pérez Tenessa (Spanish) and James Hare (American) with the support of European and American financial groups like DCM –Doll Capital Management, Apax Partners, Atlas Venture et 3i Group, among others. In October 2006, TA Associates, a leading buyout and private equity firm in the USA and Europe, bought out eDreams for 153 million euros. This was the first LBO (Leveraged Buy Out) in southern Europe’s internet history.
Founded in 1968, TA Associates is one of the oldest and largest private equity firms in the world. Settled in Boston, Menlo Park and London, they are equipped with a $10 billion capital base and have invested in more than 370 companies. TA Associates is specialized in “Growth Equity” operations, “Leveraged Recapitalization” and “Management Buy-outs” in technology, financial and business services, healthcare, and consumer industries.

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