11 Sep Meeting Alliance Named to the 9th Annual MEETINGSNET "CMI25" List
Robbinsville, NJ (September 10, 2015) – MeetingsNet, a digital magazine and Web site dedicated to the meetings and incentives industry, has named Meeting Alliance to its 2015 “CMI 25” list of the largest and most influential full-service meeting and incentive travel management companies focused on the U.S. corporate meetings and incentives industry. Now in its 9th year, the list is an influential resource for meeting managers, incentive travel executives, and procurement professionals researching information on the industry’s leading outsource partners.
Together, the independent meeting planning companies on the 2015 CMI 25 list report booking more than 10.5 million group room nights in 2014, all tied to the 80,487 meetings, conferences, and incentives they executed for corporate clients during the year. “As the economy made significant strides in the past couple of years, the companies on the CMI 25 list appear to have benefited. As a group, they report a 16 percent increase in 2014 in the number of meetings and incentives planned over 2013,” said MeetingsNet’s Sue Hatch. “Not only are these planning organizations trusted corporate partners, relied on to orchestrate critical events around the globe with professionalism and creativity, they are also major corporate citizens in their own right, with 56 percent of the CMI 25 companies employing more than 100 people.”
The CMI 25 is the most comprehensive listing of the major independent meeting companies serving the corporate world. The CMI 25 list will be published in the September 2015 issue of the MeetingsNet tablet magazine (http://meetingsnet.com/app-registration) and digital edition, and on www.meetingsnet.com.
“Our presence on the CMI 25 continues to be a great honor and we are proud to be recognized for the 9th consecutive year,” says David D’Eletto, managing partner and co-founder of Meeting Alliance. “Meeting Alliance has an exceptional team of meeting management professionals whose dedication to our highly-esteemed roster of clients is unrivaled. Our company fosters an environment of respect, quality, and teamwork. We are grateful to be acknowledged by MeetingsNet year after year.”
About Meeting Alliance
Meeting Alliance is an award-winning, globally-experienced, full-service meeting and event management company specializing in the logistical planning of meetings and events for corporate clients. Meeting Alliance has over 15 years’ experience, has planned over 1,500 national and international meetings, and has amassed an impressive and ever-growing list of satisfied and loyal clients. For more information about Meeting Alliance, please visit www.meetingalliance.com
About The “CMI 25”
The magazine’s editors selected CMI 25 companies based on several factors, including the number of meetings and incentive travel programs managed in 2014 and the total number of room nights represented by those meetings and incentives. They also considered the number of full-time employees at each company, as well as the percentage of the company’s 2014 revenues that came from organizing corporate meetings and incentives, versus association meetings or other sources.