The Priceline Group is a leader in global online hotel reservations, with over 190,000 participating hotels. The group is composed of four primary brands- Priceline.com, Booking.com, Agoda.com and TravelJigsaw-providing online travel services in over 110 countries. In the U.S., priceline.com gives leisure travelers multiple ways to save on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises.
In particular, priceline.com is famous for its Name Your Own Price travel services, promoted by actor William Shatner. Founded in 1998, Priceline employees over 4300 employees globally, and was ranked the #12 on the list of fastest growing companies, and #3 on the list of fastest growing tech companies, by Fortune Magazine. Priceline was ranked Bloomberg Businessweek’s top performing company in 2010, and has been the top performing stock on the S&P 500 for the past 5 and 10 years.
