Deem Announces Strategic Car Service Distribution Partnership With BCD Travel

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Deem and BCD Travel today announced a  distribution agreement for Deem Car Service. Deem is the leading Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS) company. BCD Travel is a leading travel management company (TMC) that helps companies make the most of what they spend on travel while keeping travelers safe and productive on the road.

Under the agreement, BCD Travel agents will be able to offer business travelers and companies access to the largest network of chauffeured transportation vehicles through a seamless, consumer-friendly application with next-generation cloud and mobile capabilities. The announcement comes on the heels of recent Deem Car Service partnerships and agreements signed with the National Limousine Association (NLA) and dozens of leading chauffeured transportation operators at the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) conference in Orlando, Florida.

"Travel managers today are faced with the challenge of managing travel risks for their travelers while providing them with the types of booking experiences they have come to demand from consumer applications like Uber," said Dave Mitchell, BCD Travel senior vice president Supplier Relations. "Deem Car Service enables our agents to provide the kind of fast, efficient, and accurate service our clients expect, while ensuring that travelers receive world-class customer service from fully vetted, licensed and insured drivers."

Deem Car Service provides next-generation cloud and mobile services for corporations and customers alike and substantially enhances customer care and safety as well as customer privacy and data security. Deem Car Service provides the only ground service booking tool that takes into account preferred providers, corporate policy and negotiated pricing at the point of purchase—making travel programs easier to manage and saving companies money. Deem combines the ease-of-use of cloud and mobile apps with the largest and most-trusted network of chauffeured transportation companies globally, spanning more than 80 countries and 700 cities.

"BCD Travel has always been at the forefront of travel technology, offering their customers best-in-class tools and service and helping travel managers make the most of their managed travel programs," said Patrick Grady, Founder and CEO of Deem. "We already enjoy hundreds of mutual customers with BCD Travel and look forward to providing the best chauffeured transportation experience to their business traveling clients around the world."

Leading chauffeured transportation operators such as EmpireCLS, Music Express, Pure Luxury, Flyte Tyme, Arrow Limousine, Gem Limousine Worldwide, Universal Limousine, U.S. Sedan Service Inc., North Point Transportation, AJL International, Sterling Limousine and others have chosen Deem as their preferred technology partner to promote their brands, fleets and inventory to corporations, business travelers and premium consumers.

About Deem

Deem is a leading Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS) company that connects a large and diverse ecosystem of more than 34,000 customers, 100,000 merchants, 11 million unique products and services and 40 channel partners across a one-of-a-kind business commerce network, enabling them to lower costs, increase revenue and deepen customer loyalty. Deem is backed by leading mutual fund and private equity investors. For more information visit www.deem.com.

About BCD Travel

BCD Travel helps companies make the most of what they spend on travel. For travelers, this means keeping them safe and productive, and equipping them to make good choices on the road. For travel and procurement managers, it means advising them on how to grow the value of their travel program. For executives, we ensure that the travel program supports company objectives. In short, we help our clients travel smart and achieve more. We make this happen in 110 countries with more than 11,000 creative, committed and experienced people. And it's how we maintain an industry-leading client-retention rate of 96%, with 2014 sales of US$24.2 billion. For more information, visit www.bcdtravel.com.

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