Highlights of 2009

Callum Johnson

Head of personnel and development

"In what has been a grim recessionary year, one of our primary objectives for 2009 was to stave off the threat of redundancy across the company. I'm delighted that not only did we wholly avoid redundancies, the team at Holiday Extras has in fact grown, with a number of talented individuals joining our teams across the business.

"To have been voted into The Times' Top 100 Companies to Work For again by the whole team at Holiday Extras is a powerful source of pride for us as a business and as individuals. Having great people who are fired up to do great things each day is so important to us. That's why we've fought hard to grow our business even in a recession so that we can hold onto and grow our talent, as well as putting significant investment behind our policy of paying our team the upper quartile package for their role when so many businesses wouldn't do this in normal years, let alone a very tough recessionary year.

"I look forward to 2010 and building on the successes of the past year. We will continue to focus on rewarding success, celebrating achievement and investing in our teams' learning and development to ensure we stay ahead of the competition in our marketplace."