2015 sales: $656.9 million
Employees: 288
Previous ranking: 27
6980 N. Port Washington Road
Milwaukee, WI 53217
T (414) 352-7600
Website Executives
CHAIRMAN: Craig Adelman
CEO: Bob Chaiken
PRESIDENT/COO: Steve Cline
CFO: Michelle Bugajski
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER: Ivan Imana
SVP, ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS: Gary Deutsch
SVP, PARTNER SOLUTIONS: Angela Abbate
2015 Developments
Continued to expand capabilities in business intelligence by integrating travel, expense and credit card transactions under one reporting platform. This effort is in conjunction with Concur Expense and Adelman's own branded corporate card system; clients are now able to fully manage their travel policy and monitor all travel and entertainment activity.
Acquired Food & Wine Trails, which specializes in food and wine tours, and HMS Travel, both based in Santa Rosa, Calif.
Company Facts
A diversified travel services company specializing in corporate travel and expense management, global consolidations, vacations, loyalty rewards travel, meetings and incentive planning, affinity tours and chambers of commerce travel. The company has regional travel solutions centers and corporate on-sites in the U.S. and dedicated affiliate offices in Asia, Canada and Europe.
25 outside agents.
88% of sales from business, 8% leisure, 4% other.
ARC sales of $365.1 million.
In addition to Food & Wine Trails and HMS Travel, owns Chamber Discoveries, a tour operator that designs customized enrichment travel programs for chambers of commerce to offer to their member companies, and Adelman Travel Rewards, a full-service, online fulfillment company for travel loyalty rewards programs.
Member of Radius, Virtuoso.
Privately held.
Looking Ahead
New Myadelman.com portal brings all of the company's technology and services to each individual corporate traveler. This enables clients to reinforce travel policy through this portal.
Created proprietary technology for virtual payment solutions, a new offering via Adelman's newly branded corporate card solution. Adelman will extract data from the reservations system and apply processes to the transaction so the amount of the virtual card from Adelman's Payment Solution is at the correct amount
Focused on hotel attachment capabilities, providing additional support for duty of care initiative so travel managers are aware of where travelers are staying around the world. Travelers are offered intelligent suggestions when they forget to book a hotel after completing an air transaction; the suggestion is based on historical behavior and traveler and preferred supplier preferences.