Student Agency
Student Agency is a Czech travel agency whose main focuses are on au-pair programmes, resale of airline tickets and bus transport. Its headquarters are in Brno, Czech Republic. Despite the company's name, their services are not sold exclusively to students.
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The company was founded by Radim Jančura, a graduate of the Brno University of Technology. Since its registration in 1996, Jančura remains CEO and the sole owner.[1]
At the end of 2004 Student Agency had 368 employees, the annual turnover totalled CZK 1.5 bn, and the operating profit amounted to CZK 9m.[2] The company's registered capital is only CZK 1m. In the first half of 2008, Student Agency announced operating profit of CZK 2.1 bn and employed 950 people.[3]
In 2006, Radim Jančura received Czech Republic Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, a prize awarded by Ernst & Young.[2]
The company operates lines connecting Prague with Ostrava, Vienna (both via Brno), Plzeň, Liberec and Hradec Králové. The most frequent is the Prague - Brno line with round the clock time schedule. There are also many less frequent international lines to: London, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Dresden, Paris, Košice, Budapest, Rome, Naples, Venice, Zurich, Bern, Geneve, Oslo and some other destinations.
Student Agency also controls RegioJet, a private railway operator which competes with Czech and Slovak railways. They have been given right to operate on Czech tracks and are one of the service providers on the Ostrava-Prague connection. They also offer train services in Slovakia and consider expanding their train numbers to more tracks and countries. Latest, a connection from Prague to Vienna was introduced in 2017.[4]
million CZK | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
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Operating revenues | 148 | 307 | 753 | 901 | 1,266 | 1,471 | 2,108 | 2,755 | 3,525 | 2,915 |
Operating profit | (0) | (-1) | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 19 | 21 | 112 |
Net profit after tax | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 76 |
Assets | 16 | 35 | 72 | 98 | 99 | 140 | 220 | 413 | 379 | 403 |
Equity | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 17 | 29 | 100 |
Notes
- Commercial register at justice.cz, identification number (IČ) 25317075
- Press release of Ernst & Young dated 23 February 2006, MS Word in Czech
- News article, 6.8.2008, in German
- "Railway Gazette: Slovak passenger market starts to open". Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- Audited financial results of STUDENT AGENCY, s.r.o., available at justice.cz (Sbírka listin), identification number (IČ) 25317075