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Advantage Rent A Car

Thursday, June 25th, 2009
One of the best known names in the rent a car industry would have to be Advantage. Whenever you think of Advantage Rent a Car, you think of low prices and great service. That is what customers have come to expect out of this name, which just so happens to be what everyone is looking for in a rental car service.
The headquarters of Advantage Rent a Car is located in San Antonio, Texas. This is a company that, not only provides cars for leisure users, but for business users as well. Pretty much, anyone that needs to find a rent a car can find what they need from Advantage Rent a Car. This is a great think for customers, because there are so many different companies that they can rent cars from out there in the world. It’s nice to be able to count on just one to fulfill all of their needs.

Right now Advantage Rent a Car actually has 150 locations in just the United States. However, they also have another 130 locations in 33 other countries. Thus, you can guess that, no matter where you go, you should be able to find an Advantage Rent a Car program close by. So this brings up a question that a lot of people want to know the answer to, and that is ‘how did Advantage Rent a Car get its start?’

 

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Well the Advantage Rent a Car system first got its start with only a few cars. In fact, the name of the company did not start off as Advantage Rent a Car; it started out as Three Ninety Nine Car Rentals. This company first opened its doors in 1963 in San Antonio, Texas. First it was serving as only a government traveler, they soon expanded over the next 20 years to handle much, much more.

In this day and age, you can never be too careful. This goes double when you are driving a car that is not yours. If something does happen when you are driving a car that you are renting from Advantage Rent a Car, there is no need to worry. That is because you can buy good car insurance from this company, which will keep you safe no matter what happens. There is nothing that gives you a better peace of mind than having some insurance that you can count on. A lot of other rent a car places try to stiff you on insurance to safe themselves money. Not only does this cost you a lot of money, because you do have to have insurance on the car no matter what, but you are still not getting the insurance that you need. That is where Advantage Rent a Car system comes into play.

The great thing about Advantage Rent a Car is that it’s a name that you can trust. Although this is something that a lot of other car companies say, it is true for Advantage Rent a Car. They use cars that you can count on and a friendly staff that is going to blow other companies out of the water.

Enterprise Car Rental

Friday, June 19th, 2009
When Jack Taylor first founded Enterprise car rentals back in 1957, he set up some founding values that he felt every car rental company needed. Many years later, these are the same founding values that the Enterprise car rental company uses today. Although Jack was able to set an example through his own personal commitment, to not only the customers but his company as well, the leaders of today have had to do it as well, staying true to the original formula that made it such a great company in the first place. The last five decades have been truly successful for Enterprise, and they seem to be going no place else except up.

 

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Although Enterprise has stayed very true to Jack’s ground rules, they did want to add some values of their own. That is why, in 2003, Enterprise came up with Values Awards. This is a program that is designed mostly to recognize the offices across the world that best exemplify the founding values of the company. By making sure that all of the Enterprise stores around the globe are sticking to what they should be, the Enterprize name can rest assure that all customers are being treated fairly.

The Enterprise that we all known and love today now has an extended family of almost 65,000 people and has homegrown roots. Although the great leadership has been able to drive Enterprise into a great company, it’s the spirit of the employees that work for them that makes it truly one of the most well known car rental companies in the world. Although Enterprise has grown up fast and strong, the company does note that they never had a goal to be the biggest. They just wanted to work hard to become the best.

The reason why most customers admit to loving Enterprise car rental offices is because they are a big trustworthy company, but they still have the same feel and approachability of a small company. While many companies’ main goal is to go out there and make money, Enterprize wants to go out and make friends.

Enterprise has always, unlike many of their competitors, operated through an extensive network of local areas. This is another one of those founding ideas that has stuck with the company for many years. By being able to stay in neighborhood networks, Enterprise has a location within about every 15 miles of about 90 percent of all of the United States. There are currently about 7,000 Enterprise car rental offices around the world. This includes most of them right in the United States, Ireland, Germany, the UK, and Canada. Enterprise is also able to handle almost tens of millions of transactions a year and has the ability to treat each of these cases just as special as the next.

Also, as a way to help out local places, Enterprise has made a name for itself by buying out millions of dollars worth of used vehicles from local dealerships instead of big chains. This is just a way for Enterprise to give back to the places that keep giving to them.

Budget Car Rental

Friday, June 19th, 2009

The Budget name is a very popular one in the world of car rentals today. The Budget car rental name has been around since 1958 when it was founded in Los Angeles, California by Morris Mirkin. Today, however, the Budget car rental headquarters is actually located in Parsippany Troy Hills Township, New Jersey, a long ways away from where it got its start. Although the company may have moved a few times and changed hands even more, it has always offered customers the best car rentals at the best prices.

  
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Although Budget may be a “big” name in car rentals today, it was not always. In fact, Budget started off with an original fleet of only 10 cars. However, it was able to live up to its Budget name by being able to undercut the normal daily and per mile rental rates offered by a lot of airport based car rental companies, which use to overcharge a lot because they were located right in the airport..

It was not until 1959 that Morris was joined by Julius Lederer, and it was still another year before Budget moved its headquarters to Chicago, Illinois. It was there that the Budget car rental company expanded and started to grow more to the size that we know today.

Of course, the company would not stay with Morris forever. Soon the company was acquired by Transamerica Corporation and then resold in 1986 in a leveraged buyout by Gibbson, Green and van Amerongen Ltd. After this, the Budget car rental company was taken public in 1987, but later it was once again bought by another group called Team Rental Group in 1997. This is when Budget became known as Budget Group.

In 2002, the company was sold once again to Cendant Corporation, which is also the same company that owns Avis. This is how the company became known as Avis Budget Group.

Although the company itself has switched hands many times, there is one thing that has never changed about the company, and that is their mission. The mission of Budget is to deliver a top of the line, quality product and to do it with friendly service and at a great value. Budget wants all of their customers to know that they have made a great choice whenever they choose Budget for all of their car rental needs.

Today Budget is a company that can be found all over the world and for many good reasons. This is a company that does offer top of the line car rentals at a price that people can afford. Although the past history of the company jumps around a lot, one thing that does not is their service. When the company first opened up back in 1958 it was known for its quality just like it still is today.

Customers can rest assured that wherever they go they can have their car needs meet by Budget. With so many car rental companies out there, it’s nice for people to be able to rely on a name that has been around for a long time, and for many people, Budget is that name.