CHICAGO -- Arrington Travel Center, a $190 million agency
headquartered here, said in the past year it won 96 accounts with a
combined volume in excess of $50 million.
The new business includes the following:
Platinum Technology, a software vendor in Oakbrook Terrace,
Ill., with estimated annual travel volume of $30 million.Kirkland & Ellis, a law firm with offices in Chicago, Los
Angeles, Washington and New York and annual volume of $8 million.
Kirkland & Ellis is a repeat customer for Arrington Travel. The
agency handled the law firm's Chicago office from 1986 through 1995
and all of its offices from 1991 through 1995.Boston Chicken, owner of the Boston Market restaurant chain and
the majority owner of Einstein/Noah Bagel Corp. Boston Chicken's
annual volume is estimated at $4 million.Tessco Technologies, a wireless communications supplier in
Sparks, Md., with annual volume of $2 million.The National Futures Association in Chicago, also with volume
of $2 million.