Kiwi.com

Kiwi.com
Formerly
 skypicker.com
Industry online travel agency
Founded 2012
Website https://www.kiwi.com/ www.skypicker.com, https://www.kiwi.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

Kiwi.com (previously known as skypicker.com) is a Czech online travel agency. On its website, Kiwi.com provides a fare aggregator, metasearch engine and booking for airline tickets. Its unique feature is "virtual interlining" - selling flight itineraries combining normally non-cooperating airlines, while Kiwi.com provides guarantees covering missed connections.[1]

The website skypicker.com was started in 2011, the company, headquartered in Brno, was founded in 2012 by Oliver Dlouhý and Jiří Hlavenka. In 2016 the company acquired the domain name Kiwi.com for $800,000 and rebranded itself to Kiwi.com.[2]

As of 2017 the company is one of the five biggest online sellers of airline tickets in Europe, with yearly turnover multiplying in recent years to around 700 million euros. Apart Brno, it has offices in Prague, Barcelona, Bratislava, Belgrade, Dalian, Durban, Kiev, Manila, Split, Suva, Pune (IND) & Gurgoan (IND) .[3]

As of May 2017 the main shareholders of the company are its founders Oliver Dlouhý (24.5%), Jiří Hlavenka (20.2%) and Jozef Képesi (13.4%), Czech venture firm Touzimsky Airlines (21.6%) and Czech businessman and investor Ondřej Tomek (10%).[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Kiwi.com in talks to raise funds for next leg of travel". Reuters. 23 May 2017 – via Reuters.
  2. ↑ "Inside Interview: Behind the $800,000 Purchase of Kiwi.com". NamePros.
  3. ↑ "Czech online travel agency Kiwi.com readies expansion push". Reuters. 21 April 2017 – via Reuters.
  4. ↑ "Veřejný rejstřík a Sbírka listin" (in Czech). Ministerstvo spravedlnosti České republiky. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Štiner, Roman (24 April 2017). "Do Kiwi vstupují noví investoři z Česka. Další zájemci chtějí koupit celou firmu". Hosodářské Noviny (in Czech). Retrieved 19 June 2017.
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