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StarCite Announces Record Q4 Bookings and Customer Program Expansions in 2009
Tuesday,Mar 30 / PDF ShareThis
New and Expanded Corporate Contracts Drive High Quality Meetings Through StarCite?s Industry-Leading Online Marketplace
PHILADELPHIA, PA ? March 30, 2010 ? StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based solutions to strategically manage corporate meetings and events, today announced record fourth quarter bookings, even as the travel industry continued to deal with the effects of global recession. During 2009, StarCite gained an impressive array of new customers and achieved a record year for customer program expansions as companies brought more meetings spend under management ? often on a global basis -- including CA, Inc., Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, one of the world?s largest energy/petrochemical corporations and three more Fortune 500 corporations in the financial and pharmaceutical sectors.
StarCite is the dominant market leader in meetings technology supporting strategic meetings management programs. StarCite?s ongoing subscribers include a majority of the top 100 companies with the largest travel budgets named by Business Travel News. Additionally, a substantial number of Fortune 500 companies utilize StarCite as their primary meetings management solution, including:
? Nine of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies;
? Eight of the ten largest technology companies; and
? Eight of the ten largest financial/insurance services companies
?When the going got tough, companies turned to StarCite to implement and enhance strategic meetings management programs at a record pace as they looked to save money and maximize every dollar they spent on meetings and events,? said Greg Dukat, chief executive officer, StarCite. ?As a result, we?re kicking off 2010 with great momentum and continuing to expand our global customer base. Companies increasingly recognize the opportunity to consolidate their spending, control costs, and maintain a robust and strategic meetings program. As these customers join our marketplace, suppliers are benefitting in turn from an increasing flow of high-quality leads that translate directly into more group business.?
Highlighting the central role the StarCite platform plays in working with leading companies in strategic meetings management, StarCite clients represent approximately 70 percent of the ?Best Meeting Practitioners? named by Business Travel News and more than half of the ?Top 20 Industry Changemakers? recently published by Corporate Meetings & Incentives.
StarCite demonstrated solid momentum on the supplier side of the meetings industry by renewing key relationships with Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt Hotels, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Marriott International Inc., and other leading hotel companies.
StarCite?s supplier partnerships underscore and solidify the understanding of the hotel community that StarCite is committed to driving high quality RFPs with very high conversion rates that amount to real business for them. This way, hotels can have their most talented sales people working on the best leads that truly convert and contribute to revenue. Further, StarCite launched supplier reporting capabilities that assist hotels in analyzing their market share of RFPs and response rates.
?Although it was a hard year for the travel industry, it was a critical time for the practice of strategic meetings management, which saw great leaps in terms of awareness and implementation around the world,? Dukat added. ?As the year progresses, we are focused on furthering our vision for meetings management by helping more companies maximize their meetings spend and continuing to build on a marketplace where buyers and suppliers can easily connect and do business in an efficient and mutually beneficial fashion.?
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