About the Company

R.D. Brown Company is an Illinois corporation formed in 1983 to provide consulting services within the travel industry.

Our consultants work with Fortune 1000 companies, partnerships, universities, and government agencies to implement “Best Practices” in travel management.
Partial Client List
 

Lockheed Martin

BlueCross BlueShield

IBM

William Blair & Company

Duff & Phelps

Underwriters Laboratories

Dolby Labs.

Clark Equipment

Cabot Corporation

Heidrick & Struggles

Nat’l. Assn. Of Realtors

Starbucks Coffee

HCA Healthcare

American Red Cross

McKesson HBOC

U.S. Dept. of Transportation

Grumman Corporation

Mattel

Mutual of New York

Zurich America Insurance

Argonne National Lab.

Gates Rubber Company

Kraft General Foods

Nat’l. Security Agency

Snap-on Tools

Allstate Insurance

Illinois Tool Works

Lifeway Christian Resources

Texas Instruments

Boston Market

NIKE

ABN AMRO

Norfolk Southern Corp

United Communications Group

BNSF Railroad

Lam Research

Partial Government Client List

Department of Transportation

Department of Agriculture

Department of Labor

National Institutes of Health

National Security Agency

U.S. Mint

General Services Administration

Department of Interior

American Red Cross

Accomplishments

  • Developed first interactive corporate benchmarking program for travel (1995)
  • Conducted the first bid for an online booking and expense system (1996).
  • Implemented the first fee-based government contract for travel agency services (1997).
  • Developed the first European travel management benchmarking program (1997).
  • Created the Account Manager Workstation for internal use (1998).
  • Developed eBuyerSolutions interactive procurement site to conduct supplier research (2002).
  • Implemented Best Practices benchmarking tool in four languages (2003).
    Created OnTAP, Online Travel Agency Procurement for online bid process (2005).
  • Established Mx4, Meetings Management Maturity Measurement benchmarking tool (2007).