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In this edition of the bottom line,

Evan Davis and guests discuss bringing businesses back from the brink.

Hello and welcome to the program.

Now, we're talking about corporate rescues today.

Companies go off the rails from time to time,

and they need someone to come along, pick them up, and put them back on track again.

It sounds like a job for a superhero, but in the

absence of one of those, the chief executive has to fill in. And we'll be hearing from three

chief executives who've each done their bit to sort out a corporate mess. And let's take a few

minutes to meet each of my three guests. We'll start with Harriet Green. Welcome back to their

program, Harriet,

Chief Executive of Thomas Cook, the travel company.

I mean, I think it's the world's oldest travel brand, Harriet.

Goes back to the 19th century.

193 years old.

Yeah, we're a travel company supporting over 23 million customers

through across the whole world for vacations, experiences,

travel. We have 90 planes. We employ 35,000 people. But you're a buyer, right? Do you rent hotels?

Do you run the hotels as well? You just hire space, you buy space here,

you buy it there, you sell it. We do a wide range of things. We create experiences,

concept hotels, travels, adventures, whatever it is people want to do. We don't own hotels.

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