Biblio-Globus Rus

LLC Biblio-Globus Rus is a tourist operator.

The main area of ​ ​ activity is the sale of tourist vouchers, tickets.

History

2021

The purchase of 75% of Biblio-Globe cost Sheremetyevo airport 410 million rubles

In early June 2022, the cost of a deal to sell 75% of the Biblio-Globus tour operator to Sheremetyevo Airport became known. We are talking about the amount of 410 million rubles, according to the accounting statements of the airport for 2021.

According to RBC, the deal ended on October 18, 2021. At the Central Bank rate that day, a controlling stake cost the airport $5.7 million. The Sheremetyevo management company clarified that the declared amount also includes the cost of the services of the notary who accompanied the transaction - 289 thousand rubles.

The purchase of 75% of Biblio-Globe cost Sheremetyevo airport 410 million rubles

The remaining 25% of Biblio-Globus Tour Operator LLC retained Yulia Tugolukova, who, together with her husband Alexander, founded the Biblio-Globus group in 1994. Tugolukova is the daughter of Boris Yesenkin, one of the founders of the Biblio-Globus bookstore, which originally housed a travel agency.

From early January to early June 2022, Biblio-Globus sent more than 528 thousand tourists on vacation, according to the company's website. Its partners are 25 thousand travel agencies that sell clients tours formed by Biblio-Globe both in Russia and abroad.^[1]

Rinat Asmatullov - the new general director of Biblio-Globus

At the end of November 2021, it became known about the appointment of a new general director of Biblio-Globus. The largest tour operator in Russia was headed by the former director of the Aeroflot sales department Rinat Asmatullov. Read more here.

Sheremetyevo Airport bought 75% of Biblio-Globus

On August 12, 2021, Sheremetyevo Airport announced the purchase of the travel operator Biblio-Globus. It is planned to close the deal, the cost of which the companies did not disclose at the end of September 2021.

Anna Zakharenkova, director of the Sheremetyevo Public Relations Directorate, told TASS that Sheremetyevo Airport buys 75% in the authorized capital of Tour Operator BG LLC.

Sheremetyevo Airport acquired 75% of Biblio-Globus

[Сделка] It is a significant step in achieving the strategic goals of the consolidated group of companies MASH [Sheremetyevo International Airport] by creating conditions for attracting and growing tourist passenger traffic, optimizing the use of the infrastructure of the terminal complex and airfield, increasing the efficiency of the group's production and commercial activities, Zakharenkova added to the agency.]

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, by August 12, 2021, 100% of Tour Operator BG LLC belongs to Yulia Tugolukova, who founded Biblio-Globus with her husband Alexander Tugolukov in 1994. After the completion of the transaction, Tugolukova will continue to head the board of directors of the company, one of the sources told RBC. The family will also have a minority stake. The proceeds can go to the development of other projects of Tugolukovs, for example, hotels, the newspaper writes.

Among the main reasons for the deal is the reduced demand for foreign travel amid the coronavirus pandemic, the source said. According to another source, the tour operator attracts a strategic investor to create an alliance in the falling tourist market. The representative of Sheremetyevo Zakharenkova told the publication that the purchase of Biblio-Globe will allow the company to increase passenger traffic, as well as optimize the use of the infrastructure of the airport terminal complex.^[2]

2019: Thomas Cook plans to acquire the Biblio-Globe

In 2019, the world's oldest tourist holding Thomas Cook planned to buy Biblio-Globus. Then the British group announced that it would create a joint venture with Turkish Sapedon Travel, which would become the owner of Biblio-Globe. The British turholding itself was supposed to receive 30% in the joint venture.

Payments under the announced deal were to be divided into several stages: at the first, which was planned to be completed by the end of May 2019, the Russian owners of Biblio-Globe were to receive $10 million, in January 2020 - the same amount. The maximum amount that the Russian owners of the tour operator could receive within three years, provided that the company reaches certain indicators for operating profit, could be $150 million. But the deal failed to materialise as financially struggling Thomas Cook failed to agree with its own creditor banks and was forced to declare liquidation in September 2019.

2016

In 2016, the owners of the Biblio-Globus tour operator were BG Consultant (share - 20%) and Alexander Tugolukov (80%).

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