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Booking Holdings
Online travel & related services company
Booking Holdings Inc. is an American travel technology company incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law and based in Norwalk, Connecticut, that owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and travel fare metasearch engines including namesake and flagship Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda, Kayak, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, Momondo, and OpenTable. It operates websites in about 40 languages and 200 countries.
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| Company type | Public |
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| Founded | 1996; 28 years ago (1996)[1] |
| Founder | Jay S. Walker |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
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| Revenue |  US$21.37 billion (2023) |
| US$5.835 billion (2023) | |
| US$4.289 billion (2023) | |
| Total assets |  US$24.34 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$−2.74 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | c. 23,600 (2023) |
| Website | bookingholdings |
| Footnotes / references [2] | |
The company is ranked 243rd on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue.[3] The company primarily derives its revenue from commissions, with a small portion derived from advertising.[2] In 2023, consumers booked 1,049 million room nights of accommodation, 74 million rental car days, and 36 million airplane tickets using websites owned by Booking Holdings.[2]: 43
In 1996, Jay S. Walker founded the company in Stamford, Connecticut, which launched Priceline.com, an online travel site, that used a Name Your Own Price bidding model.[4]
In 1999, the company became a public company via an initial public offering, making Walker, who owned a 35% stake in the company, a multi-billionaire.[5][4]
The company experimented with selling other products and services such as groceries, gasoline, home mortgages, and cars, but these offerings were discontinued in 2000.[6][7]
On April 1, 2014, the name of the company was changed from priceline.com Incorporated to The Priceline Group Inc.[2]
In August 2017, KAYAK acquired the assets of Mundi, a Brazilian metasearch company.[8][9]
On February 21, 2018, the name of the company was changed from The Priceline Group Inc. to Booking Holdings.[10][11]
The company offered to acquire GoToGate; however, the deal was blocked by European regulators.[12]
CEOs
Jeffery H. Boyd was named chief executive officer in 2002 and remained in that role until becoming chairman of the board for Booking Holdings in 2013.[13]
Effective January 1, 2014, Darren Huston was named chief executive officer of the company, replacing Jeff Boyd.[14] On April 28, 2016, Huston was forced to resign following an undisclosed personal relationship with an employee, and Boyd was named interim CEO.[15]
Effective January 1, 2017, Glenn D. Fogel was named chief executive officer and president.[16]
The key trends for Booking Holdings are (as at the financial year ending December 31):[17]
| Revenue (US$ bn) | Net profit (US$ bn) | Total assets (US$ bn) | Employees | |
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| 2016 | 10.7 | 2.1 | 19.8 | 18.500 |
| 2017 | 12.6 | 2.3 | 25.4 | 22.900 |
| 2018 | 14.5 | 3.9 | 22.6 | 24.500 |
| 2019 | 15.0 | 4.8 | 21.4 | 26.400 |
| 2020 | 6.7 | 0.06 | 21.8 | 20.300 |
| 2021 | 10.9 | 1.1 | 23.6 | 20.300 |
| 2022 | 17.0 | 3.0 | 25.3 | 21.600 |
| # | Year | Company | Price | Ref(s). |
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| 1997 | Priceline.com | [18] | ||
| 1 | 2004 | Major stakes in Travelweb and Active Hotels | [19] | |
| 2 | 2005 | Booking.com | $133 million | [18] |
| 3 | 2007 | Agoda.com | [20] | |
| 4 | 2010 | TravelJigsaw / Rentalcars.com | [21] | |
| 5 | 2013 | Kayak.com | $1.8 billion | [22] |
| 6 | 2014 | OpenTable | $2.6 billion | [23] |
| 7 | 2014 | Buuteeq and Hotel Ninjas | $98 million | [24] |
| 8 | 2015 | Rocketmiles | [25] | |
| 9 | 2017 | Momondo and Cheapflights | $550 million | [26] |
| 10 | 2017 | Mundi | [27] | |
| 11 | 2018 | FareHarbor | $250 million | [28] |
| 12 | 2018 | Minority stake in DiDi | $500 million | [29] |
| 13 | 2018 | HotelsCombined | $140 million | [30] |
| 14 | 2019 | Venga | [31] | |
| 15 | 2022 | Getaroom | $1.2 billion | [32] |
- Weber, Thomas E.; Petersen, Andrea (April 1, 1999). "Priceline's Initial Public Offering Turns Founder Into Billionaire". The Wall Street Journal.
- Piskora, Beth (March 31, 1999). "Priceline Blasts Off – Online Ticketing Enterprise IPO Up 3 331%". The New York Post.
- Brooks, Nancy Rivera (October 5, 2000). "Priceline.com to Put Gas Up for Bid on Web". Los Angeles Times.
- "Priceline Runs Out of Gas, Groceries". CBS News. February 26, 2000.
- McDonald, Michele (August 3, 2017). "Kayak acquires Brazilian travel metasearch site Mundi". Phocuswire.
- O'Neill, Sean (August 4, 2017). "Kayak Acquires Assets of Struggling Brazilian Metasearch Company Mundi". Skift.
- Josephs, Leslie (February 21, 2018). "Online travel giant Priceline Group changes name to Booking Holdings". CNBC.
- VANIAN, JONATHAN (February 21, 2018). "Why Priceline Group Is Changing Its Name to Booking Holdings". Fortune.
- Schaal, Dennis (October 3, 2023). "After Booking Deal Went Bust, Etraveli CEO Says Price 'No Longer in Play'". Skift.
- Lincoln, Kevin (January 19, 2012). "Meet The Man Who Turned Priceline Into A $24 Billion Company". Business Insider.
- Clampet, Jason (November 7, 2013). "Priceline Replaces CEO With Booking.com Boss". Skift.
- "Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston Resigns; Chairman Jeffery H. Boyd Appointed Interim CEO" (Press release). PR Newswire. April 28, 2016.
- "The Priceline Group Names Glenn Fogel CEO" (Press release). PR Newswire. December 15, 2016.
- "Booking Holdings Fundamentalanalyse | KGV | Kennzahlen". boerse.de (in German).
- O'Neill, Sean (October 2, 2012). "Why Priceline's Purchase of Booking.com Was the Most Profitable Deal of the 2000s". Phocuswire.
- Schaal, Dennis (May 18, 2010). "Priceline Acquires Car Rental Firm Travel Jigsaw As Part of Expansion Drive". Phocuswire.
- Lardinois, Frederic (November 8, 2012). "Priceline.com Acquires Kayak For $1.8 Billion, Will Allow Kayak To Continue To Operate Independently". TechCrunch.
- Sharf, Samantha (June 13, 2014). "Priceline Reserves OpenTable for 2.6 Billion". Forbes.
- Schaal, Dennis (August 11, 2014). "Priceline Group Paid $98 Million for Buuteeq and Hotel Ninjas". Skift.
- Elahi, Amina; Karp, Gregory (February 19, 2015). "Priceline to acquire Chicago startup Rocketmiles, says report". Chicago Tribune.
- "The Priceline Group Completes the Acquisition of Momondo Group" (Press release). PR Newswire. July 24, 2017.
- O'Neill, Sean (4 August 2017). "Kayak Acquires Assets of Struggling Brazilian Metasearch Company Mundi". Skift.
- "Booking Holdings Announces it has Signed an Agreement to Acquire FareHarbor" (Press release). PR Newswire. April 19, 2018.
- Cadell, Cate (July 17, 2018). "China's Didi gets $500 million funding from Booking.com parent". Reuters.
- Schaal, Dennis (August 13, 2018). "Booking Holdings Bought HotelsCombined for Only $140 Million". Skift.
- "Booking Holdings Agrees to Acquire Venga" (Press release). PR Newswire. May 2, 2019.
- Schaal, Dennis (November 12, 2021). "Booking Holdings Buys Getaroom for $1.2 Billion to Expand Partnerships". Skift.
- Official website
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