Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Trading name | CWT |
|---|---|
Formerly | Carlson Wagonlit Travel |
Type | Privately held company |
| Industry | Travel agencies |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Minneapolis, United States |
Key people | Kurt Ekert (CEO) |
| Products | Business travel, meetings and events planning |
| Revenue | $1.5 billion USD[1] |
| Owner | Carlson |
Number of employees | 18,000[1] |
| Website | Official website |
CWT (formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel)[2] is a company managing business travel, meetings and events for companies, governments and non-governmental organizations.
Tracing its origins back to the 1870s' invention of rail sleeping cars and the creation of Compagnie International des Wagons-Lits by Belgian Georges Nagelmackers, CWT is a privately held travel management company, wholly owned by Carlson Companies.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, the company reported $25 billion in total transaction volume[3] in 2016 and recorded almost 59 million transactions. The company has over 18,000 employees across around 145 countries.
History
The group has existed in its present form since 1994,[4] the result of a 50%/50% merger from two large travel agency ventures. The Carlson side was originally from the Ask Mr. Foster Travel Agency chain, which had already been rebranded to Carlson Travel Network.[5] The Wagonlit part came from the travel shop business of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits.
On April 27, 2006, Accor announced the sale of its 50% interest in CWT to Carlson Companies and One Equity Partners, an arm of J. P. Morgan Chase.[6]
On June 22, 2014, the company announced that Carlson, a privately held corporation in the hotel, marketing, restaurant, and travel industries which owned a 55% stake in the company, would purchase the remaining 45%, held by JPMorgan Chase.[7]
On February 18, 2019, the company announced that it was rebranding as CWT.[2]
References
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^ ab "CWT is the New Name in Digital Business Travel, Hotel Distribution, and Meetings & Events". Mynewsdesk (Press release). Retrieved 2019-02-21.
^ "Carlson Wagonlit Travel breaks US$2bn new business sales barrier | Travel Daily UK". Travel Daily UK. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
^ "Carlson Companies agreed to purchase from a JPMorgan Chase division the 45 percent stake in Carlson Wagonlit Travel that it did not already own.: Business Travel News". www.businesstravelnews.com. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
^ "History of Carlson Wagonlit Travel – FundingUniverse". www.fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
^ Accor. "Accor Divests Stake in Carlson Wagonlit Travel". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
^ [1], Minneapolis Star Tribune, accessed June 23, 2014.
External links
- Carlson Wagonlit Travel

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