Lastminute.com Group CEO: We Consider Ourselves a Media Company
Photo Credit: Lastminute.com Group Chief Executive Fabio Cannavale. The company started life as an Italian flight search engine but is now active in 40 countries. Lastminute.com Group
Skift Take
It's clear from his answers that Fabio Cannavale will keep looking to buy more companies. He thinks there are plenty of companies for sale and he's got some cash on hand.
Lastminute.com Group chief executive Fabio Cannavale has spent the last 13 years transforming a small, low-cost flight search engine based in Italy into a pan-European travel company.
Through a series of acquisitions, the company moved into new countries as well as new areas including package holidays and metasearch. The defining moment came in 2015 when Bravofly Rumbo Group, as it was then known, bought faded dot-com darling Lastminute.com for next to nothing from previous owner Sabre.
Cannavale renamed the parent company Lastminute.com Group and he embarked on a new strategy with a content arm now working alongside its online travel agent and metasearch divisions.
Cannavale recently sat down with Skift to discuss the changes at the business and where it sees its biggest opportunities.
(Note: the interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.)
Skift: Let's look at the Lastminute.com Group as it is now and the story behind it. In the UK and in America, a lot of peo
