Sixt reported its highest first-half revenue in the company’s history, the Germany-based car rental supplier announced Wednesday. Second-quarter consolidated revenue of €743.8 million increased 48.4 percent year over year from €501.2 million. Half-year revenue was €1.32 billion, up 59.4 percent from €831 million a year prior. The half-year total represented a 16.9 percent increase over … Read more
In addition to the challenges of developing and marketing a product, starting a new company comes with a host of legal hurdles, including your overall business structure. For instance, you may choose to conduct business as a limited liability company (LLC), partnership, franchise, or sole proprietorship. In many cases, regulations place certain restrictions on the … Read more
BCD Travel is tapping travel data platform FairFly’s technology to power its air price assurance offering, the travel management company announced. FairFly has been a partner of BCD since 2018, available to BCD clients through its SolutionSource marketplace, but a new, expanded agreement is putting FairFly technology behind a standard BCD offering, BCD Air Price … Read more
Marketing Podcast with Matt Dixon In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Matt Dixon. Matt is a Founding Partner of DCM Insights, the customer understanding lab. He’s also a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review with more than 20 print and online articles to his credit. His first book, The Challenger … Read more
Etihad Airways plans to add a second daily service between Abu Dhabi and Manila, Philippines, beginning Oct. 30, the carrier announced Wednesday. Both daily frequencies will be operated on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The combined flights will offer 450,000 seats annually between the cities, according to the company.
Network provider O2 is offering customers complimentary access to a pop-up lounge at Gatwick airport until October 9. The O2 Roam Freely lounge, located airside in Gatwick North Terminal’s departures area, is complimentary for all O2 and Virgin Media customers, owing to the Virgin Media O2 joint business in the UK. Many mobile network providers … Read more
The electric aircraft industry received another boost of confidence this week as United Airlines paid Archer Aviation a $10 million deposit for 100 of the company’s vertical take-off and landing aircraft, the manufacturer announced Wednesday. The payment follows a 2021 conditional agreement between the companies in which United, along with regional partner Mesa Airlines, committed … Read more
About the show: The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of short-form interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode focuses on a single topic with actionable insights you can apply today. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here! About this episode: In this … Read more
HRS has integrated data from safety and security assessment provider GeoSure into its lodging and meetings procurement service, the company announced. With the integration, HRS procurement technology users can now see security scores generated by GeoSure’s technology alongside other elements, including price, satisfaction scores and sustainability, HRS said. GeoSure’s platform uses national, regional and local … Read more
A global team of academics claims to have developed a more accurate model to measure businesses’ progress against the climate goals set out by the Paris Agreement, having today released the findings of a pilot study revealing how major corporates may be performing worse than they think against their net zero targets. Published today in … Read more