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BCD Travel buys US travel management company
BCD Travel has acquired Adelman Travel Group in the US.
Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the privately-owned travel management company was founded in 1985 and has 300 staff.
It joined BCD Travel Affiliates in 2017, a network of 30 corporate travel agencies.
"We’re very proud to bring a prominent TMC like Adelman into the BCD Travel family," said Craig Bailey, BCD Travel Americas president.
"Our financial strength affords us the opportunity to grow our company with moves like this one that benefit our clients, employees, partners and affiliates. It fits perfectly with our strategy of growing organically through investments in products and services and through acquisitions of successful companies that share our company values and culture."
Adelman will continue operating under its brand as a wholly owned business unit of BCD Travel.
This latest purchase follows acquisitions of BCD operations in Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Colombia, Dubai, Japan, Poland, UK-based international events agency Zibrant, and other companies in the US.
In early July, BCD announced its acquisition of a majority stake in Hitachi Travel Bureau, its partner in Japan since 2011.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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