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Maritz pursues meeting service needs.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 05-JUN-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Two years after Maritz Inc. sold its corporate travel operation to Carlson Wagonlit Travel, the company has staked as its turf high-touch corporate meetings and events. Maritz Inc. chairman and CEO Steve Maritz in New Orleans last week sat down with Meetings Today editor Corrie Dosh to discuss meetings and incentive travel.

MT: The company recently announced it would sell a controlling stake in its European operations to The Grass Roots Group in the United Kingdom (Meetings Today, May 1). Why are you pulling out of Europe as your competitors expand their operations overseas?

Maritz: Well, remember it's a partnership with equity. We are true partners in a joint venture, if you will, in Europe and we have an equity stake in the parent as well. It's a partnership, but a partnership with teeth. Every market is a little bit different and we felt that they have a good reputation and do a good job. For us to focus on our core markets and they on theirs...

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