2015 sales: $2.8 billion
Employees: 1,306
Previous ranking: 12
2120 S. 72nd St.
Omaha, NE 68124
T (800) 228-2545; (402) 399-4500
Website Executives
PRESIDENT/CEO: Kevin O'Malley
COO: Tim Fleming
EVP & CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, INFORMATION SERVICES: Mike Kubasik
SVP, ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT: Nancy Rissky
SVP, OPERATIONS: Nancy Miller
SVP/LEGAL COUNSEL: Mike King
2015 Developments
Continued record sales for both parent company and Ultramar Travel, acquired in 2012 and still operated separately.
Acquired a portion of Derpart MfG Reisen, a travel management company with European offices.
Invested in Travefy, a group travel-planning technology company that develops online and mobile travel collaboration tools.
Opened Travel Design Lounge, a retail space serving beverages and offering travel specialists on site.
Partnered with Gallup to survey travelers on what they are looking for in a mobile travel app. Results will shape future development.
Company Facts
Hosts independent contractors where Travel and Transport owns ARC number.
41 outside agents.
ARC sales of $1.67 billion.
$9.6 million in sales from hosted agents.
85% of sales from business, 5% leisure, 10% other.
Owns Events: meetings, groups and incentive planning; Loyalty: loyalty marketing and fulfillment; eTTek Solutions: innovative technology products and services; and Travel Design Lounge: a retail travel outlet. Total sales for subsidiaries: $365.8 million.
Member of Radius Travel; one of three majority shareholders of Radius.
Member of Virtuoso.
Privately held; 100% employee-owned.
Looking ahead
Will continue making investments through full or partial global acquisitions and in certain markets, providing a Travel and Transport offering directly within a current global agency. Expansion plans include growth in top 10 markets.
Creating a big data solution that aggregates expense and card data with back-office automation, then fuses information such as financial data, fuel price data and more to produce visualizations and predictive metrics that will give travel managers better decision-making ability.
Will continue to enhance Dash Mobile app and will launch a new user interface in 2016. It will serve as an advanced technology solution where travel managers and travelers will seamlessly access their data.
Working on a new platform to provide travel counselors with a 360-degree view of the traveler. Known as Bartt (Booking Agent Reservation Technology Tool), this resource will provide a dynamic display of specific customer information.