Experient News

September 12, 2007

Experient Named To First Annual “CMI 25” List By Corporate Meetings & Incentives Magazine

Twinsburg, Ohio – Experient announced today that it has been named to the first annual “CMI 25” list of the industry's largest and most influential full-service independent meeting and incentive travel management companies focused on the corporate market. Compiled by Penton Media's Corporate Meetings & Incentives® magazine, the leading information source for the $40.3 billion corporate meetings and events industry, the CMI 25 provides an essential resource for corporate executives and meeting professionals seeking partners for outsourcing all or parts of their programs. The CMI 25 appears in the September issue of Corporate Meetings & Incentives and is available on the Web at www.meetingsnet.com.

“The CMI 25 list represents the leading companies in the industry, based on extensive research by our staff,” said Barbara Scofidio, editor of Corporate Meetings & Incentives. "As outsourcing of meeting and incentive travel program planning becomes increasingly important to corporate America, the CMI 25 have become the ‘go-to’ service providers for executives in many sectors.”

“We are proud and honored to be named to the CMI 25 list,” says Rick Binford, Experient chief marketing officer. “We’ve developed solutions uniquely suited to the corporate market and our inclusion on this list is confirmation that we’ve taken steps in the right direction toward meeting the needs of our corporate clients.”

The magazine’s editors selected CMI 25 companies based on several factors, including the number of meetings and incentive travel programs managed in 2006 and the total number of room nights represented by those meetings and incentives. They also evaluated the number of full-time employees at each company, as well as the percentage of the company’s revenues that came from organizing corporate meetings and incentives, versus association meetings or other sources.