Archive for August, 2007

FX Africa and Travelex Celebrate New Partnership (27/08/2007)

GIVING IT HIS ALL: FX Africa Managing Director Darren Jenkins-Ferrett said FX Africa will ‘‘eat, sleep and breathe’’ the Travelex brand. Travelex, the world’s dominant player in foreign exchange, and FX Africa, an up-and-coming leader in the Southern African market, celebrated their new partnership at a gala dinner for business partners and clients in Johannesburg […]

From the Chairman’s Office (21/08/2007)

FX Africa Founder and Chairman Sean Maloney Local foreign exchange retailer FX Africa and global forex giant Travelex have announced a new partnership that will see FX Africa becoming the retail representative for Travelex in South Africa with immediate effect. Travelex wanted a local operator to work with so that their worldwide […]

Service is About Building Partnerships (21/08/2007)

Paul Swainson, Travelex Director for Africa Travelex is the world’s biggest foreign exchange company, serving a customer somewhere in the world every three seconds. Now this will include customers from South Africa for the very first time. Paul Swainson, Travelex Director for Africa, says, “Travelex has been keen to enter the Southern African retail market […]

Becoming Travelex (21/08/2007)

Managing Director of FX Africa Foreign Exchange, Darren Jenkins-Ferrett The transformation of FX Africa into the Travelex Retail Foreign Exchange brand in South Africa is about so much more than just changing the sign above the door, says Darren Jenkins-Ferrett, Managing Director of FX Africa Foreign Exchange. “It’s a complete mindset change from […]

Meet Lloyd Dorfman (21/08/2007)

Lloyd Dorfman, Founder and Chairman of the Travelex Group Lloyd Dorfman is Founder and Chairman of the Travelex Group. Having briefly sampled the bar and investment banking, he started his own currency exchange business in 1976 from one small shop in central London. Following the £440m acquisition of Thomas Cook’s Global & Financial Services business in […]

Smarter in Uniform (21/08/2007)

Smart new uniforms for FX Africa staff As Travelex’s Retail Foreign Exchange partner, FX Africa is undergoing a complete branding makeover. For the customer this will be most visible in the newly branded stores and the smart uniforms that frontline staff will wear from end of October. The uniform, which is the same as Travelex’s international […]

First Travelex Branch Opens (21/08/2007)

ON CALL: Regional Manager Kuben Pillay (right) and sales consultant Zain Dusthagieer taking the first client calls The Pavilion branch in Durban is the first Travelex Retail branch in South Africa! The opening of the branch, on August 16, to which 40 customers from travel agents, corporates, and banks were invited, was a great success. […]