Large rental agencies like Enterprise and Avis have responded by rolling out similar services.
Later on, Avis checked in a rental car of mine in approximately the same time.
At the time, there were two rental car companies in the U.S., Hertz and Avis.
Roughly 20, 000 companies are using the application, too, including Sprint, Avis, Dell and McAfee.
Professor Avis was recently asked to re-apply for his job as chairman of the PCT.
My speculation is that this target was Avis Budget Group, another Deloitte audit client.
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His first job was to make over the outfits worn by Avis rental agents.
But Avis will obviously be able to put Zipcar onto its own discount levels.
Avis said it will fund the purchase with incremental corporate debt and cash on hand.
Avis Budget also plans to achieve substantial cost savings by increasing fleet utilization across the two companies.
Ms. AVIS DeWEAVER (Institute for Women's Policy Research): They're really treating the symptom instead of the problem.
But to truly help investors, Cendant should exit from vehicles entirely by unloading the Avis and Budget car rental businesses.
Avis, Localiza and other car hire companies are available from the airport.
Chances are that Avis and Enterprise will respond in kind, and the result will be lower profits all around.
Among billionaires engaged by problems in education policy, Bren is a rara avis.
Sure, Coca-Cola could declare its support of world peace, or Avis might decide that it believes in road repair.
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Enter the Avis Budget Group, whose corporate name sounds nearly like a parody of a plodding, if well-capitalized big competitor.
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Mr. JEFF AVIS (Saddleback Member): He didn't even have to think of a lot of the answers to his questions.
EasyRentacar has 88% of its fleet earning money on any given day, compared with Avis Europe's 66% and Hertz International's 73%.
Within a year of the new campaign, Avis was making a profit.
If Hertz sees much of its rental fleet lying idle, it will cut its prices to better compete with Avis and Enterprise.
For more than a year, Avis Budget Group and Hertz Global Holdings have been working on deals for Dollar Thrifty.
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Professor Avis complained to the chairman of the local strategic health authority.
Avis needed a reply and got the best brand-name in the business.
On the other hand, Avis gets an interesting asset in an emerging category: short-term renting, where competitor Hertz has already gotten a foothold.
Besides the Avis acquisition of Zipcar, Mercedes-owner Daimler is rapidly expanding its car2go service that rents its Smart Fortwo cars by the minute.
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Avis offers car rental at the aforementioned airports and in Graaff-Reinet.
"People get off the boats, get on their buses and move out, " says Andrew Halcro, a former state senator whose family owns the Avis franchise in Anchorage.
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