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Chris Mottershead back as Thomas Cook UK boss

Thomas Cook has announced that Chris Mottershead will resume leadership of the UK business, taking over from Ingo Burmester.

Mottershead joined Thomas Cook from Tui in 2015, and in April took up the role of  chief of product and operations. He will continue in that role.

Thomas Cook has hit the headlines recently with two profit warnings in two months.

Burmester, who joined in 2017, has decided to step down for personal reasons and return home to Central Europe. He will be joining DER Touristik, based in Germany, in May.

Mottershead will work alongside Anth Mooney, who continues to report to CEO Peter Fankhauser as chief of UK Retail and Money.

Thomas Cook Group CEO Peter Fankhauser said: “I want to thank Ingo for his contribution to Thomas Cook. Given the critical importance of turning around the performance of the UK business I have decided to hand back the leadership of the UK source market to Chris Mottershead for the time being.

“I am confident that his experience in running a British holiday company, along with Anth’s absolute focus on our retail and money business, will help to accelerate the UK’s return to profitable growth.”

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