2015 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $52 million
Principal Online Booking Tool: Concur Travel
Consolidated U.S. TMC: BCD Travel
After a one-year absence,
food and beverage conglomerate Nestle rejoins the Corporate Travel 100, as BTN estimates its 2015
U.S.-booked air volume increased after a decline in 2014.
The company has taken
several steps, including budget cuts and strictly interpreting corporate travel
policy, to reduce travel and its associated environmental impact. Nestle
promotes remote conferencing and other technology as alternatives to travel,
and displays greenhouse gas-emission information along with fares to users of
its Concur Travel online booking tool. The company also pushes users to rent
electric cars.
As a result, Nestle’s air
travel and rental car use generated an estimated 242,800 metric tons of carbon
dioxide equivalent in 2014, down from 254,700 in 2013. Given an increase in
headcount, the company’s efforts to reduce travel led to the avoidance of
16,600 metric tons of emissions.
Nestle’s 2015 corporate
revenue declined about 3 percent to 88.8 billion Swiss francs, or US$89.6
billion. Net profit declined about 37 percent to 9.1 billion Swiss francs, also
US$9.1 billion based on the Dec. 31, 2015, exchange rate. The company had
335,000 employees at the end of 2015, about 4,000 more than it had in December
2014.