MILWAUKEE -- Bill La Macchia, owner of the Mark Travel Corp., based
here, and Sun Country Airlines, purchased Minneapolis-based Trans
Global Tours.
The tour operator, which had been the target of takeover
speculation for weeks, handles 310,000 passengers a year on sun
destination charter programs from Minneapolis and Dallas, marketed
under the name Trans Global Vacations.
Trans Global will be operated by La Macchia Enterprises, a
holding company, and will remain based in Minneapolis.
It will be run as a separate firm, and Trans Global president
Ronald Weeks will remain president and chief executive officer.
La Macchia said that he plans to retain Trans Global's staff of
200 employees and expand the firm's reservations call center by 100
employees.