Avis Rent A Car System
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Avis Rent A Car System, LLC is an car rental company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey USA. Avis, Budget Rent a Car and Budget Truck Rental are all units of Avis Budget Group.
Avis Budget Group operates the Avis brand in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand. In other parts of the world, the Avis brand is operated by Avis Europe plc, a separate company which licenses the Avis brand from Avis Budget Group. All together, Avis currently has over 4000 branch offices worldwide. Avis is one of the largest car rental agencies in the world.
Avis is a leading rental car provider to the commercial segment serving business travelers at major airports around the world, and to leisure travelers at off-airport locations.
[edit] History
The company was founded in 1946 in Detroit by Warren E. Avis. It established branch operations across the U.S. over the next few years, and by its tenth anniversary in 1956 had opened its first international offices in Europe, Canada and Mexico.
Their corporate motto is "We Try Harder." It was adopted in 1962 [1] to play off Avis' status as the second largest car rental company in the U.S., at the expense of its larger competitor The Hertz Corporation.
Avis has been owned by a number of other companies over the years, along with several periods of being a public company. These include:
- 1962 - Investment group Lazard Freres
- 1965 - ITT Corporation
- 1977 - Norton Simon
- 1983 - Esmark
- 1984 - Beatrice
- 1986 - Investment firm Wesray Capital
- 1996 - HFS Corporation
- 2001 - Cendant
- 2006 - Avis Budget Group
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Avis Budget Group: Avis - Budget Dollar-Thrifty: Dollar - Thrifty Independents: Auto Europe - Enterprise - Europcar - Hertz - Kemwel - Rent-A-Wreck - Sixt |
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