Business cards: inexorable growth
The business payment card sector continues to widen the gap with cash and cheques. At Visa Europe, for example, the...
Process : Expenses and recoverable VAT abroad
The management of business travel expenses is becoming increasingly automated. Less and less paper, dedicated IT tools, more and more...
Insurance: travelling covered
Accidents, political or health risks... whether travelling in France or around the world, business travellers are exposed to a wide range of dangers. Businesses turn to insurance companies and assistance firms, whose job is to do everything possible to ensure that business missions and short-term trips go off without a hitch.
Close-up of ACE Business Class
Following its recent facelift, the "ACE Business Class" insurance and assistance package provides better protection for companies and their employees, with a higher level of cover...
Sébastien Alby, a lawyer in the group's human resources department...
The largest seeds company in the European Union and the fourth largest in the world, the Limagrain group, which controls Vilmorin & Cie in particular, achieves annual sales of...
Substantial savings
A travel policy clearly defined by the company, high-performance online booking tools, consolidation of purchases at global level and... employee buy-in all help to...
Savings at every level at EDF and Gaz De France
When it comes to managing business travel, Europe's two leading energy companies, state-owned EDF and Gaz de France, are in a good position....
Michel Dieleman Travel manager, France Télécom Group
With a presence in 220 countries, the France Telecom group has 60,000 potential travellers who make 180,000 trips a year. Its travel manager, Michel Dieleman, has just...
Business travel: optimising management
Implementing a travel policy is one way of reducing the costs associated with business travel, and is part of a wider strategy to...
Remote collaboration: issues and consequences
The 2000s saw the emergence of a new way of thinking about collaboration and team management. At the root of this...
Pierre-Yves Tilly HR Director, HP France
How many people are affected by mobile working conditions at HP?
Pierre-Yves Tilly - Out of a total of 4,300 people in France,...
David Cartier, Marketing Manager, Premium and Corporate Cards...
Should we expect to see rapid growth in co-branding of corporate cards in France?
David Cartier: Undoubtedly, but in relatively small proportions...
Europay France, Mastercard international's representative in France
Authorised since 1967 as a financial company specialising in the management of means of payment, Europay France is a credit institution whose capital is held by six French banks that issue MasterCard cards: Crédit Agricole, Crédit Mutuel, Banques Populaires, Groupe CIC, La Poste and Crédit Lyonnais.
Label Horizon
Created in 2006 at the initiative of the French government, the Horizon label is intended as a guarantee for consumers. It applies to airlines operating in...
Maxime Coffin, Director of Safety Control at the DGAC (French Civil Aviation Authority)
With global air traffic doubling in twenty years, how have safety and the number of accidents changed?
Maxime Coffin: Over the...
Air travel: increasing safety
Major progress has been made in terms of safety in the aviation sector. Roughly speaking, traffic has grown twice as fast...
Training centre and flight simulator
Air France has a pilot training centre at Paray/Orly. The airline also organises "Learn to fly" courses for stressed travellers...
Travel agencies: greater responsibility for advisers
Travel agencies are facing increasing demands from their corporate customers. What's more, they have to manage a...
Organising travel Optimising expenditure
The big names on the Paris stock exchange have introduced a travel policy. Reducing the costs generated by business travel is a major priority for...
GCPS meets the needs of multinationals
GCPS LLC has already been in existence for five years. The company was set up to enable its founding members - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Bank of...
