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SALES: £140m


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Senator House, 85 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4AB • 020 3667 1000 statesmantravel.com


enquiries@statesmantravel.com Twitter: @statesmantravel


UK business travel gross sales 2015 £140m New business 2015 £11m


Key personnel Mervyn Williamson Joint managing director Jon Langley Joint managing director David Thomas UK sales director Juliet Reffold Head of account management Paul Spencer Head of international sales (TSI)


Main industry sectors of clients Investment banking, media, advertising, technology, oil and gas, professional services and legal.


Services offered in addition to business travel MICE, specialist media travel, sports and educational tours, VIP travel and airfare consolidation.


Transactions in 2015 Air 73% • Hotel 15% • Rail 8% • MICE 4%


Transactions handled online 40%


Locations and networks St Paul’s, Victoria and Sutton (London), Manchester, Birmingham and Great Yarmouth. Founding member of Travel Solutions International (TSI). Advantage Corporate Premium, GTMC and ABC.


UK full-time equivalent staff 160 Average length of service 11 years Average industry experience 12 years


Technology offering Travelport, Sabre and Amadeus. StatesManager custom portal and online MIS (proprietary), expense management integrations (Concur/SAP and Coupa), Trip Booker (Concur, KDS, Cytric or SABS), Hotel Booker (Conferma or Hotelzon), Train Booker (Evolvi or Trainline), Taxi Booker (Cabforce), Traveller Tracking (proprietary), Risk Reporting/Map (proprietary) and Trip Approval (proprietary), Travel+ traveller app and Trippay billback app (Conferma).


Biggest innovation in 2015 Statesman Travel with iTravel loyalty points system.


Agency description Statesman Travel was founded in 1975, with the current management team taking over in 2007. The company, which develops its own technology, has tripled in size over the past three years and Statesman’s focus on service is reflected in a claimed 99.5 per cent client-retention rate.


SALES: £135m


STATESMAN TRAVEL GROUP CLARITY TRAVEL MANAGEMENT


4th floor, Churchgate House, 56 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6EU • 0161 259 0517 claritytm.co.uk


sales@claritytm.co.uk Twitter: @clarity_tm


UK business travel gross sales 2015 £135m


New business 2015 £100m


Key personnel Pat McDonagh CEO Mark Nevin CFO Paul Casement Director of sales and account management Sue Chapman Director of commercial Debbie Johnson Director of operations


Main industry sectors of clients Professional services, infrastructure, retail, higher education, public sector and not-for-profit.


Services offered in addition to business travel MICE and luxury leisure.


Number of transactions in 2015 800,000 Air 15% • Hotel 30% • Rail 45% • Car 2% MICE 5% • Other 3%


Transactions handled online 60%


Locations and networks Manchester, Stafford, Bury St Edmunds, Derby, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Southampton and Warrington. Part of Al Tayyar Travel Group with locations worldwide. GTMC.


UK full-time equivalent staff 250 Average length of service 9 years Average industry experience 9 years


Technology offering Galileo. Go2 Book online booking tool, Go2 Insight online MI, Go2 Track traveller tracking and Go2 Mobile itinerary management.


Biggest innovation in 2015 The continued development of the Go2 Book platform.


Agency description The Clarity Travel Management name emerged in 2015, after the rebranding of Co-operative Travel Management following its acquisition by new owners in 2014. On relaunch, the company invested more than half a million pounds in new technology. In the summer of 2015, the company was one of four named on the UK government’s Crown Travel and Venue Services framework.


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SALES: £132.9m THE APPOINTMENT GROUP


The Linen House, 253 Kilburn Lane, London W10 4BQ • 020 8962 6714 appointmentgroup.com globalservices@appointmentgroup.com Twitter: @appointment_grp


UK business travel gross sales 2015 £132,881,035


New business 2015 £14.3m


Key personnel John Gianquitto


Joint chairman and chief executive officer Maurice Veronique


Joint chairman and chief executive officer Glen Duckworth Joint chief operating officer Ian Patterson Joint chief operating officer Andy Hampshaw Group strategy director


Main industry sectors of clients Finance, banking, entertainment, film, media and sports.


Services offered in addition to business travel Specialist touring and roadshow travel, film and TV production travel, sports team and supporter travel, private leisure travel and MICE management.


Number of transactions in 2015 189,561 Air 54% • Hotel 30% • Rail 1% • Car 1% MICE 12% • Other 2%


Transactions handled online 3%


Locations and networks London (office and implant) and Manchester. New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Nashville, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. GTMC and Virtuoso.


UK full-time equivalent staff 208 Average length of service 7.6 years Average industry experience 9 years


Technology offering Galileo. TAG works predominately with Concur, but also with all technology available in the market.


Biggest innovation in 2015 TAG Global Touring app for tour managers, production managers and touring personnel. The app contains travel itineraries for touring, including rooming lists, riders, accommodation vouchers, hotel information and budgets.


Agency description TAG is an award-winning global, independent travel and event management company. Its specialist divisions provide high calibre management for corporations, VIP individuals and luxury leisure travellers across an office network in the UK, US, Australia and Asia.


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