Carlson Wagonlit Travel

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) is a large travel agency, handling both business and leisure clients.
CWT is dedicated to helping companies of all sizes, as well as government institutions and non-governmental organizations, optimize their travel programs and provide best-in-class service and assistance to travelers.
CWT also plays a major role in meetings and events management, providing strategic know-how and a host of services and technology solutions that help companies make the most of their investment.
It operates in 152 countries and territories, with 19,000 employees. The company has $24.3 billion in annual sales (including joint ventures) in 2010, from 57 million transactions.
==History==
The group has existed in its present form since 1994, 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 been rebranded to Carlson Travel Network a decade earlier. The Wagonlit part came from the travel shop business of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. After the merger, Accor maintained its 50% interest up until 2006. Accor sold its shares for in a transaction worth €500m, thereby placing a value of €1bn on CWT at the time)
The company is jointly owned by Carlson, a privately held corporation in the hotel, marketing, restaurant, and travel industries; and by One Equity Partners, a private equity affiliate of JPMorgan Chase.
In 2011, Carlson Leisure's Macy's Travel were rebranded as Carlson Wagonlit Travel; the stores were located in former Marshall Field's department stores and were known as Marshall Field's Travel before the stores were purchased by Macy's; Marshall Field's was owned by Twin Cities based Target Corporation, similar to Carlson Wagonlit Travel co-owner Carlson Companies. Macy's Travel had joined Carlson Wagonlit Travel in 2006 when TQ3Navigant was purchased by CWT. , Carlson Wagonlit Travel, accessed April 12, 2010.
== See also ==
* Business travel
* Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
==References==
== External links ==
* Carlson Wagonlit Travel
* Carlson Companies
* Carlson Wagonlit UK
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