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Jeffs is Best in the Business

At a ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel in Park Lane, Jeffs Coaches was presented with the Group Leisure Industry Award for best coach operator for European and International Tours 2000. The family firm, which has 80 coaches in its fleet, picked up the prize at the industry’s premier event for recognising excellence in travel.
The weatherman Michael Fish presented the P & O Stena Line sponsored award (for which voting began in January) after readers of the Group Leisure magazine voted Jeffs as best international operator.
It was reported in the Northamptonshire Chronicle and Echo of 10 October that Julie Bosley, group sales manager for Jeffs, said “This is yet another milestone for the Jeffs Group and we are particularly honoured as this was voted for by readers of the specialist holiday magazine.”
“We did not know until the night that we had won. It’s brilliant and we’re really pleased. We consider ourselves to be a good local coach company and to win a national award is something very special.
“We have been operating out of the same yard in Helmdon since the company was founded in 1956 and it is still run by the same family.
“This award is in recognition of our team and completely due to their work.”
Read what the Banbury Guardian said.
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