Booking Holdings Inc.
Formerly
  • Priceline.com Incorporated (1998–2014)
  • The Priceline Group Inc. (2014–2018)
TypePublic company
Industry
Founded1996; 27 years ago (1996)[1]
FounderJay S. Walker
Headquarters
Norwalk, Connecticut
,
U.S.
Key people
Glenn D. Fogel
(Director and CEO)
David I. Goulden (CFO)
Peter J. Millones, Jr.(General Counsel)
Paulo Pisano (CHRO)
Products
RevenueIncrease US$17.09 billion (2022)
Increase US$5.102 billion (2022)
Increase US$3.058 billion (2022)
Total assetsIncrease US$25.36 billion (2022)
Total equityDecrease US$2.782 billion (2022)
Number of employees
Increase c. 21,600 (2022)
Websitebookingholdings.com
Footnotes / references
[2]

Booking Holdings Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and travel fare metasearch engines including Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda.com, Kayak.com, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, Momondo, and OpenTable. It operates websites in about 40 languages and 200 countries. The company derives substantially all of its revenues from commissions, although a small portion of its revenues are from advertising.[2]

In 2022, consumers booked 896 million room nights of accommodation, 62 million rental car days, and 23 million airplane tickets using websites owned by Booking Holdings.[2]: 47 

The company is ranked 340th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue.[3]

History

In 1997, 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.[1]

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.[4][1]

The company experimented with selling other products and services such as groceries, gasoline, home mortgages, and cars, but these offerings were discontinued in 2000.[5][6]

On April 1, 2014, the name of the company was changed from priceline.com Incorporated to The Priceline Group Inc.[2]

On February 21, 2018, the name of the company was changed from The Priceline Group Inc. to Booking Holdings.[7][8]

Management

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.[9]

Effective January 1, 2014, Darren Huston was named chief executive officer of the company, replacing Jeff Boyd.[10] On April 28, 2016, Huston was forced to resign following an undisclosed personal relationship with an employee, and Boyd was named interim CEO.[11]

Effective January 1, 2017, Glenn D. Fogel was named chief executive officer and president.[12]

Acquisitions

# Year Company Price Ref(s).
1997 Priceline.com [13]
1 2004 Major stakes in Travelweb and Active Hotels [14]
2 2005 Booking.com $133 million [13]
3 2007 Agoda.com [15]
4 2010 TravelJigsaw / Rentalcars.com [16]
5 2013 Kayak.com $1.8 billion [17]
6 2014 OpenTable $2.6 billion [18]
7 2014 Buuteeq and Hotel Ninjas $98 million [19]
8 2015 Rocketmiles [20]
9 2017 Momondo and Cheapflights $550 million [21]
10 2017 Mundi [22][23][24]
11 2018 FareHarbor $250 million [25]
12 2018 Minority stake in DiDi $500 million [26]
13 2018 HotelsCombined $140 million [27]
14 2019 Venga [28]
15 2021 Getaroom $1.2 billion [29]
16 2023, pending regulatory approvals Etraveli (GoToGate) 1.83 billion [30][31]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Weber, Thomas E.; Petersen, Andrea (April 1, 1999). "Priceline's Initial Public Offering Turns Founder Into Billionaire". The Wall Street Journal.(subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d "Booking Holdings 2022 Annual Report Form (10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 23, 2023.
  3. ^ "Booking Holdings". Fortune.
  4. ^ Piskora, Beth (March 31, 1999). "Priceline Blasts Off – Online Ticketing Enterprise IPO Up 3 331%". The New York Post.
  5. ^ Brooks, Nancy Rivera (October 5, 2000). "Priceline.com to Put Gas Up for Bid on Web". Los Angeles Times.
  6. ^ "Priceline Runs Out of Gas, Groceries". CBS News. February 26, 2000.
  7. ^ Josephs, Leslie (21 February 2018). "Online travel giant Priceline Group changes name to Booking Holdings". CNBC.
  8. ^ VANIAN, JONATHAN (21 February 2018). "Why Priceline Group Is Changing Its Name to Booking Holdings". Fortune.
  9. ^ Lincoln, Kevin (January 19, 2012). "Meet The Man Who Turned Priceline Into A $24 Billion Company". Business Insider.
  10. ^ Clampet, Jason (November 7, 2013). "Priceline Replaces CEO With Booking.com Boss". Skift.
  11. ^ "Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston Resigns; Chairman Jeffery H. Boyd Appointed Interim CEO" (Press release). PR Newswire. April 28, 2016.
  12. ^ "The Priceline Group Names Glenn Fogel CEO" (Press release). PR Newswire. December 15, 2016.
  13. ^ a b O'Neill, Sean (October 2, 2012). "Why Priceline's Purchase of Booking.com Was the Most Profitable Deal of the 2000s". Phocuswire.
  14. ^ "Priceline Posts Profit, Buys Travelweb". The Wall Street Journal. May 3, 2004.
  15. ^ "Priceline.com Acquires Asian Online Hotel Reservation Service Company Agoda". Reuters. November 8, 2007.
  16. ^ Schaal, Dennis (May 18, 2010). "Priceline Acquires Car Rental Firm Travel Jigsaw As Part of Expansion Drive". Phocuswire.
  17. ^ Lardinois, Frederic (November 8, 2012). "Priceline.com Acquires Kayak For $1.8 Billion, Will Allow Kayak To Continue To Operate Independently". TechCrunch.
  18. ^ Sharf, Samantha (June 13, 2014). "Priceline Reserves OpenTable for 2.6 Billion". Forbes.
  19. ^ Schaal, Dennis (August 11, 2014). "Priceline Group Paid $98 Million for Buuteeq and Hotel Ninjas". Skift.
  20. ^ Elahi, Amina; Karp, Gregory (February 19, 2015). "Priceline to acquire Chicago startup Rocketmiles, says report". Chicago Tribune.
  21. ^ "The Priceline Group Completes the Acquisition of Momondo Group" (Press release). PR Newswire. 24 July 2017.
  22. ^ O'Neill, Sean (August 4, 2017). "Kayak Acquires Assets of Struggling Brazilian Metasearch Company Mundi". Skift.
  23. ^ McDonald, Michele (August 3, 2017). "Kayak acquires Brazilian travel metasearch site Mundi". Phocuswire.
  24. ^ O'Neill, Sean (August 4, 2017). "Kayak Acquires Assets of Struggling Brazilian Metasearch Company Mundi". Skift.
  25. ^ "Booking Holdings Announces it has Signed an Agreement to Acquire FareHarbor" (Press release). PR Newswire. April 19, 2018.
  26. ^ "The corporation formerly known as Priceline just invested half a billion in DiDi Chuxing". The Hustle. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  27. ^ "Booking Holdings Inc. QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934". The Hustle. 30 June 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  28. ^ "Booking Holdings Agrees to Acquire Venga" (Press release). PR Newswire. May 2, 2019.
  29. ^ "Booking Holdings Completes the Acquisition of Getaroom" (Press release). PR Newswire. December 30, 2021.
  30. ^ "Booking to buy Swedish travel agency Etraveli for $1.83 billion". Reuters. November 23, 2021.
  31. ^ "Booking Holdings acquires ETraveli Group for €1.6 billion". PhocusWire. November 23, 2021.

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