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Article: Virginia-Based Vacation Store to Merge with Florida Leisure Travel Firm.(Originated from The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.)
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- May 7, 1997
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.--May 7--The Vacation Store, a mass-market travel agency, has merged with another leisure travel marketer, Fort Lauderdale-based 1-800-TAKE-OFF.
The union creates one of the nation's largest retailers of vacation packages.
The new company will continue to trade as The Vacation Store and will remain headquartered on Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach. It will use 1-800-TAKE-OFF's widely recognized toll-free number for reservations and information.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"We want to be known nationally as the place to buy a vacation," said David Kaufman, chairman and chief executive ...