Peter Headley / February 18, 2010 10:00 am
The car rental giant, Avis Budget Group Inc, has revealed their fourth quarter losses this week for the time ending 31st December 2009. They have improved greatly on what was expected and the margins were very narrow. The firm put [...]
Samantha Williams / November 13, 2009 12:00 pm
The car rental giant, Avis Rent A Car, has this week won the contract to have their desks in the key positions across nine airports owned and operated by Airports Company South Africa (ACSA). The contract will last for five [...]
Martin Fellowes / July 9, 2009 9:00 am
www.avis.com For those heading to the US for their holidays this year Avis have launched the next step in in-car-entertainment. The service run by AT&T Cruise Cast has 22 video satellite channels and another 20 audio channels beamed directly to [...]
Taylor Smith / January 30, 2009 1:00 pm
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has joined its competitors in the rental car industry, urging Congress to use TARP program funds to free up commercial credit so that they can continue purchasing vehicles for their fleets. Rental car companies are the biggest car [...]
Peter Headley / December 10, 2008 12:00 pm
In Ireland, car hire operators are being accused of taking advantage of customers over the upcoming busy Christmas holiday period, with some trebling their daily and weekly rates. One rental company that typically charges €69 per week for a small [...]
Robert Bergerson / December 5, 2008 11:00 am
Car rental giant Avis Budget Group announced on Thursday that it had reduced its workforce by more than 2,200 jobs as part of its plan to meet the company’s goal of cutting its yearly operational costs by $150-200 million by [...]
Taylor Smith / November 26, 2008 11:00 am
On Monday, the Avis Budget Group announced that it would be raising some of its rates on rental cars as it continues to struggle with the rising cost of operating its rental business. Shares in the rental car giant rose [...]
Doug Smith / July 23, 2008 1:57 pm
Avis Rent A Car, one of the most prominent international brand names when it comes to car rentals, has teamed up with CarbonFund.org, in order to ensure that the vehicle hire giant does all it can to reduce carbon emissions [...]
Martin Fellowes / July 22, 2008 1:00 pm
Consumer demand for smaller rental cars is reversing the practice of trading up. David Sikorski, a Hertz customer in Texas, booked a mid-sized car for his business trip from Austin to Dallas last month. His reason for booking a mid-sized [...]
Robert Bergerson / July 20, 2008 12:00 pm
Rental car companies are finding that demand is up and outpacing supply for rental vehicles that offer customers better gas mileage. The rental companies are feeling the pinch financially, according to the Los Angeles Times. The travel company Sabre, owner [...]