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A New Start for Abercrombie & Kent

Patrick Whyte
February 13th, 2019 at 12:30 AM EST

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Abercrombie & Kent has had a few different owners in recent years, but this one looks like it will give the company a solid foundation from which it can expand.
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"I wake up every day thinking I'm just starting," Geoffrey Kent, founder, chairman, and CEO of luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent, said to me during an interview earlier this week. It's certainly an interesting approach from a man who has been involved in the travel business since launching the tour operator way back in 1962. Today, however, it makes a little more sense, given the news that he has bought back the business from its previous owner along with his friend Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio, who recently sold a majority stake in Silversea Cruises to Royal C

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