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Independent label: Pontins is a British holiday
business which was originally founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin. It specialises in
offering half-board and self-catering holidays with regular entertainment on
offer. Accommodation is usually in the form of chalets. The company once grew to
be a major operator of seaside holiday accommodation. Fred Pontin opened the
first holiday camp in 1946 on the site of a former US World War II army base at
Brean Sands in Somerset, gradually expanding his empire to 30 sites at one
point. In 1978 the company was sold to Coral in a UK£56 million deal. In 1980,
Coral (including Pontins) was taken over by Bass Brewing who later disposed of
the Pontinental side of the business. In 1987, Pontins was sold to a management
buyout team led by Trevor Hemmings, whose construction firm had originally built
the holiday centre at Southport. It was sold yet again in 1989, this time to
Scottish & Newcastle. Over the next ten years the company closed or sold a
number of sites. In a three-year programme in the mid-1990s, the remaining camps
were modernised. In 2000 the company, which now owned only eight camps, was sold
back to Hemmings. In 2008. Distributed By Pontins.
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