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10 PORTMAN TRAVEL


Rutherwyk House, 57 Guildford Street, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 9AY 0800 731 1627 portmantravel.com sales@portmantravel.com Twitter: @portmantravel


UK business travel gross sales 2015 £250m


New business 2015 £33m


Key personnel Steve Allen CEO Adrian Parkes Commercial director David Canavan Chief financial officer John Dick Chief customer officer Will Moorhouse Sales director


Main industry sectors of clients Banking, insurance and finance, consultancy, defence, engineering and construction, legal, marine, oil and gas, media, pharmaceuticals, professional services, public sector, retail and utilities.


Services offered in addition to business travel Business intelligence consulting, MICE, executive leisure, expense management, forex, medical repatriation, passport and visa, Portman Twenty Four out-of- hours services, Responsibly Portman sustainability consulting, translation services and VIP travel, including Portman Premiere


Number of transactions in 2015 960,000 Air 40% • Hotel 26% • Rail 25% Car 2% • MICE 5% • Other 2%


Transactions handled online 52%


Locations and networks Aberdeen, Chertsey, East Kilbride, Edinburgh, London (City), Manchester, Motherwell, Newcastle and Stoke. Wholly- owned offices in Tralee (Republic of Ireland) and Amsterdam. Founding shareholder in Radius Travel (85 countries). GTMC.


UK full-time equivalent staff 400


Average length of service 8.5 years


Average industry experience 15 years


Technology offering Travelport and Sabre. PortmanOne online booking tool, Portman Three Sixty


UK full-time equivalent staff 372


Average industry experience 21 years


Technology offering Sabre. IQ proprietary suite, encompassing an online booking tool, ViatiQ, client portal, IQ protect and traveller app.


Biggest innovation in 2015 The launch of Reed & Mackay’s traveller app, which features boarding passes – a claimed-first for the industry.


Agency description


Reed & Mackay was established in 1962 as a business and leisure travel agent, rebranding in 1988 as a corporate travel


MI (Cognos by IBM), SafeTrack traveller tracking, Portman Live Wire (AeTM, Cytric, Concur, Evolvi, GetThere), Portman Trip Planner itinerary management and Portman app.


Biggest innovation in 2015 PortmanOne is a multi-award- winning consultant desktop and client self-booking tool which offers total trip management by using metasearch techniques and aggregation of rich content from multiple international sources.


Agency description Portman is the only TMC to receive the Investors in People Gold accolade and simultaneous recertification of three key ISO standards. It won the Business Travel Awards in 2016 for Best Travel Management Company (more than £200m UK annual sales) and Best Technology Product for PortmanOne, which also won it the Travelport/ GTMC Innovation Award.


SALES: £250m


11 REED & MACKAY


Nexus Place, 25 Farringdon Street, London EC4A 4AF 020 7246 3268 reedmac.com marketing@reedmac.co.uk Twitter: @reedmackay


UK business travel gross sales 2015 £227m


New business 2015 £28m


Key personnel Fred Stratford CEO Tracy Baumfield Sales director Matthew Everson IT director Joe Hanly CFO Paul Cook International development director


Main industry sectors of clients Law, finance, insurance, energy, oil and gas, and professional services.


Services offered in addition to business travel Event management and consultancy.


Number of transactions in 2015 615,000


Transactions handled online 21%


Locations and networks Three UK offices and nine implants. Wholly-owned offices in London, Aberdeen, Philadelphia and Dubai. Founder of GSM Global Travel Management network, which has a presence in more than 40 international markets. GTMC and Advantage Corporate Premium.


management company. The firm says that 89 per cent of its business comes through referral and more than 50 per cent of its clients have been with the company for over ten years. It is well known for developing its own in-house technology.


SALES: £227m


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