| 1976 |
Lloyd Dorfman opens our first store in Southampton Row, London |
| 1977 |
Second store opens in Cromwell Road, London |
| 1978 |
Third store opens in Oxford Circus, London |
| 1979 |
First foreign exchange bureau opens on the road to the Dover seaport |
| 1982 |
Travelex opens its first ferry outlet on board the P&O ferry serving Rotterdam, the largest port in the world |
| 1984 |
Travelex ‘goes Dutch’, opening our first overseas branch in the Netherlands at North Sea terminal, Rotterdam |
| 1985 |
Travelex opens in Belgium, at Zeebrugge passenger terminal |
| 1986 |
Travelex wins a landmark contract as the first non-bank foreign exchange provider at Heathrow T4 |
| 1989 |
Travelex is ‘Born in the USA’ as we open branches in JFK |
| 1990 |
Travelex goes down under and opens in Brisbane’s Domestic terminal |
| 1993 |
Travelex takes over the Mutual of Omaha, taking over stores in 50 terminals at 34 airports across the US |
| 1995 |
Abbey National buys a 33% stake of Travelex as we take over Abbey National’s foreign exchange |
| 1998 |
3i become shareholders as they buy out Abbey National and Hambros in a 7-year deal |
| 1999 |
Travelex acquires Barclay’s foreign exchange in the UK, kick starting our vault operations |
| 2000 |
Negotiations begin to buy Thomas Cook Financial Services |
| 2001 |
Acquisition of Thomas Cook Financial Services for £440 million |
| 2003 |
Travelex India is born and Travelex sponsors the ITV Rugby World Cup and Jonny Wilkinson. The Travelex ticket season at the National Theatre was born. Travelex enters the Middle East with the first store opening in Oman |
| 2004 |
Travelex lands in China |
| 2005 |
Apax recognises the opportunity and become Travelex’s majority shareholder |
| 2007 |
Travelex beats a 30-year incumbent to land Auckland airport |
| 2008 |
Travelex wins gold in Beijing and opens stores in the airport |
| 2009 |
First foreign exchange ATM in APAC goes live at Brisbane Airport |
| 2010 |
Peter Jackson arrives at Travelex |
| 2011 |
Travelex sells its card programme management business to Mastercard for £290million. Travelex also sells Travelex Global Business Payments to Western Union for £606million. Following these sales, we go back to our roots as a business focused on the consumer. We purchase a shareholding in FX Africa and announce the acquisition of Grupo Confidence in Brazil. |
| 2012 |
Travelex celebrates 35 years of helping its customers send and spend money round the world |