General Electric
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2012 SME Report: For Travel Supplier Discounts, SMEs Won't Wait For The Phone To Ring
… midsize companies can feel overlooked by travel suppliers. IBM, with its massive travel budget, makes airlines swoon, General Electric finds little difficulty getting hoteliers to dance, and Bank of America gets its pick of rental car suitors. But for …
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GetThere announced that General Electric signed a multi-year renewal.
GE uses the GetThere online booking tool in multiple global regions, including the Middle East .
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BTN's 2010 Best Practitioners: Raising Bars For Managed Travel Practices
… Bastrentaz: A number of companies have done this before us. General Electric really pioneered this, and they really enabled others ..... before us, and we just help refine it. Starting with GE and the three others, we're putting in new models …
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Hewlett-Packard Consolidates Travel To Two Global Call Centers
… consolidate not only centers, but also tools and technologies, so that everyone was using the same model—a little bit like GE 's been doing over the years—but it's not follow-the-sun. The intent is that you are calling into this cloud …
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The National Business Travel Association acquired full ownership of The Masters Program conference
, held annually in Washington, D.C. in February. NBTA also said it partnered with Amadeus to secure former General Electric chairman Jack Welch as a speaker for the 2011 Masters Program event.
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NBTA To Change Name To Global Business Travel Association
… for C-level and senior executives and a think tank for the travel industry," NBTA said in a statement. Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch will address the next Masters Program, to be held Feb. 7-8, NBTA announced Monday.
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BMO Bets On Diners Revival
… eyed growth through acquisition for some time. It considered GE Money's corporate card unit, which American Express ultimately ..... 2008), but with Diners it gained global capabilities that GE never could have given it, he said. Once the acquisition …
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Online Booking Expands Frontiers: New Content, Languages, Currencies Smooth Global Spread
… by entering emerging business travel markets, for the most part only the largest multinational corporations, such as General Electric , Cisco and Oracle, have achieved real traction among local employees in their efforts to standardize business operations …
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Airlines Better Cash Stances
… gained nearly $1.3 billion in cash through a $1 billion advance mileage sale to Citi and a $280 million loan from GE Capital Aviation Services—the firms "topping AMR's friends and family speed-dial list," said JP Morgan aviation analyst …
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CT100: 2008 Spending Cuts Signal Deeper Decline In '09
… expanded the use of remote conferencing options, including high-definition telepresence systems. Those companies include GE , Accenture, Procter & Gamble, Intel, Lockheed Martin and Verizon. Click here to see BTN's 2009 Corporate Travel 100 …
