2016 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $45 million
Principal Online Booking Tool: Concur
Consolidated U.S. TMC: BCD Travel
Food and beverage conglomerate Nestle's U.S.-booked air
volume dropped nearly 14 percent in 2016. The company continues to reduce
travel and its associated environmental impact, including cutting its budget
and strictly interpreting corporate travel policy. Nestle promotes remote
conferencing and other technologies as alternatives to travel and displays
greenhouse gas emission information along with fares in the Concur Travel
online booking tool. The company also pushes users to rent electric cars. 2016
revenue grew to 89.5 billion Swiss francs, or US$92.7 billion, about 3 percent
more than the previous year. The company had 328,000 employees at the end of
2016, about 7,000 fewer than in December 2015. In February 2017, it announced
it would begin in September 2017 the $40 million process of moving U.S.
headquarters from Glendale, Calif., to Arlington, Va.