2015 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $80 million
Principal
Online Booking Tool: Concur
Travel
Principal Card
Supplier: Bank of America
Principal
Expense Supplier: Concur Expense
Consolidated
U.S. TMC: American Express
Global Business Travel
BTN estimates that AbbVie’s
United-States-booked air volume for rose by $5 million in 2015. AbbVie—a global
biopharmaceutical company formed on Jan. 1, 2013, from a stock split by Abbott
Laboratories—employed more than 28,000 people in 2015 and sold its products in
more than 170 countries. 2015 revenue increased 22 percent to $22.8 billion.
AbbVie holds the rights to the blockbuster drug Humira, which had 2015 net
sales of $14 billion, an increase of 19 percent.
AbbVie
has improved data collection in order to support duty of care, supplier
negotiations and service to travelers. The company, which spent 72 percent of
its 2015 U.S.-booked air volume on international airline tickets, has issued a
single global travel policy. It also has issued guidelines that require its
suppliers to conduct business in a legal and ethical manner. AbbVie uses an
individual bill, central pay card program.