American Express Global Business Travel today revealed it has been selected to provide travel management services to the Carlsberg Group, the fourth largest brewery in the world, with a presence in 150 markets and with 45,000 employees globally.

GBT will provide the Carlsberg Group with a comprehensive travel management programme.

The global agreement will cover four main areas including a dedicated service teams with online and mobile booking capabilities.

Meeting and events services will be included, as well as consulting services (including sourcing and Optimisation support) and CSR, including proactive duty of care solutions.

The following markets have already gone live: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.

“GBT’s ability to deliver consistent service across the world, relevant consulting capabilities and the testimonials provided by our customers are some of the reasons why the Carlsberg Group selected GBT as their global travel management partner,” said Dan Håkansson, managing director, Nordics, American Express Global Business Travel.

“The Carlsberg Group also recognises that we are very well positioned to support their focus on globalising, optimising, centralising and standardising processes, which they believe will help them deliver a best-in-class business travel programme for their travellers as well as for the company overall.

“Needless to say, we are absolutely delighted and proud to have been selected to deliver travel management services to a world-class company like the Carlsberg Group and we look forward to supporting them both at a global and local level, to help them drive continuous improvements in their business travel programme and to help them maximise their business travel spend,” concluded Håkansson.