CUC (Comp-U-Card) International Inc. was a membership-based consumer services conglomerate with travel, shopping, auto, dining, home improvement and financial services offered to more than 60 million customers worldwide based in Stamford, Connecticut, US, and founded in 1973 by Kirk Shelton and Walter Forbes. In 1998, it became involved in a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into what, at the time, was the biggest accounting scandal in corporate history.[1]
^SEC press release on bringing civil suits against Forbes and Shelton
CUC (Comp-U-Card) International Inc. was a membership-based consumer services conglomerate with travel, shopping, auto, dining, home improvement and financial...
based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1996 as CUC Software, the publishing subsidiary of CUCInternational, after the latter acquired video game companies...
company, Sierra was acquired by CUCInternational in February 1996 to become part of CUC Software. However, CUCInternational was caught in an accounting...
Committee for Peasant Unity in Guatemala CUC Broadcasting, a former Canadian media company CUCInternational, a former consumer services conglomerate...
1996, CUCInternational announced that it would acquire Knowledge Adventure; the acquisition was completed on February 3, 1997. In February 1996, CUC had...
Officer of that company in the 1990s, and at its predecessor company CUCInternational. On 2007 January 17, the 64-year-old Forbes was sentenced to over...
CUCInternational, a direct marketing company that operated discount membership programs like Shoppers Advantage and Travelers Advantage. HFS and CUC...
rate of US$1 = CUC 1 = CUP 25. State enterprises under the socialist planned economy, though, were entitled to exchange CUPs into CUCs and U.S. dollars...
spent on development and manufacturing. Following its acquisition by CUCInternational in 1996, Lowe's relationship with Sierra underwent significant changes...
revenue before it was acquired by the Sierra On-Line division of CUCInternational in 1997 for $13.8 million. Vivendi Universal’s subsequent acquisition...
Walter Forbes, former CEO of CUCInternational, was charged with 16 counts in relation to inflated earnings statements from CUC before it merged with HFC...
The convertible peso (sometimes given as CUC$ and informally called a cuc or a chavito) was one of two official currencies in Cuba, the other being the...
was acquired along with Sierra On-Line by a company called CUCInternational in 1996. CUC then merged with a hotel, real-estate, and car-rental franchiser...
by this time. On November 18, 1997, after Sierra was acquired by CUCInternational, CUC announced that they will rebrand SIGS as WON as of December 1, 1997...
and made around $30 million a year in sales. He sold the company to CUCInternational for $25 million in 1997. He and his wife Joan Blades in 1998 founded...
subsequently known as representatives. Welcome Wagon International has had several owners. In 1995, CUCInternational Inc. which subsequently merged into Cendant...
towards the creation of digital cash. NetMarket was soon purchased by CUCInternational and despite expectations to the contrary, continued to be successful...
& Associates in 1994, renamed from Silicon & Synapse; acquired by CUCInternational in 1996, which merged into Cendant in 1997 and was sold to Havas in...
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