Egencia Is Looking for Scale in Mergers and Acquisitions, Not New Geographies

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Expedia has been talking for a couple of years about being opportunistic when it comes to mergers and acquisitions for its Egencia business travel unit. That may be on the back burner for awhile, though, as the parent company, which has been bogged down in integrating acquisitions over the past couple of years, focuses on growing what it already has.
When it comes to mergers and acquisitions activity in corporate travel, Expedia Inc.'s Egencia business is looking for increased volumes and scale in markets where it is already operating — and it is less interested in broadening its footprint geographically.
The Expedia subsidiary also scoffs at the notion of buying new technology.
That's the perspective of Egencia President Rob Greyber, whose wish list for mergers and acquisitions in corporate travel meshes nicely with Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom's newly artic