Case Study: Cookson Adventures secures travel spending and cuts expense admin with Pleo

Cookson Adventures - Customer Case Study

Cookson Adventures, led on finance by Sam Bradley, is a luxury adventure company that organises complex, travel‑heavy trips. The business faced insecure, hard‑to‑reconcile spending: guides often travelled with up to £10,000 in petty cash across multiple currencies, returned with bags of receipts, and finance relied on traditional bank cards. Sam investigated digital options and chose Pleo’s expense cards and management platform to solve those challenges.

Pleo was rolled out alongside existing bank cards and, within two weeks, company adoption soared — staff preferred Pleo and the old cards were cut up. Moving most spending onto Pleo eliminated large cash transfers, drastically reduced lost receipts and reconciliation headaches, and freed the finance team to focus on strategy rather than manual bookkeeping. Cookson Adventures now handles most trip expenses on Pleo (even staging a gladiator event paid via Pleo), improving security, visibility and efficiency.

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Sam Bradley

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