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American Express Global Business Travel To Acquire Hogg Robinson Group, Fraedom To Visa

By | February 9, 2018
Greg O'Hara

Now that’s a mega. American Express Global Business Travel today announced plans to acquire Hogg Robinson Group in an all-cash deal. Both are among the top four global travel management companies. Publicly traded HRG also announced it would sell its Fraedom software business to Visa for 142 million pounds ($198 million). Depending on conditions related to the Fraedom sale,… Read More »

Travel Leaders Group Buys North Carolina’s Travel Management Partners

By | September 21, 2017

Travel Leaders Group in July acquired Raleigh, N.C.-based Travel Management Partners. It’s another in a string of deals pushing TLG to the extremes of travel agency heft. Twenty-three year-old TMP employed about 135 people as of a year ago. According to The News & Observer of Raleigh, TMP in 2015 arranged more than $300 million in travel for about 40… Read More »