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Avis Budget Group, Inc
Type
 Public
Traded as
NASDAQ: CAR
DJTA Component
S&P 400 Component
Industry
Rental & leasing services
Founded 2006
Founder
Henry Silverman, Warren Avis, Julius Lederer
Headquarters
Parsippany, New Jersey, United States
Key people

  • Larry D. De Shon

  • (Director & CEO)[1]

  • David B. Wyshner

  • (President & CFO)[1]
Products Car rental
Revenue IncreaseUS$ 8.66 billion (2016)[1]
Operating income
 DecreaseUS$ 509 million (2016)[1]
Net income
 DecreaseUS$ 163 million (2016)[1]
Total assets IncreaseUS$ 17.64 billion (2016)[1]
Total equity DecreaseUS$ 221 million (2016)[1]
Number of employees
 26,300 [2] (2017)
Website www.avisbudgetgroup.com



Avis Budget Group


Avis Budget Group, Inc. is the American parent company of Avis Car Rental,[3]Budget Car Rental,[3]Budget Truck Rental, Payless Car Rental, Apex Car Rentals,[4] Maggiore Group[5] and Zipcar.[6] The company's headquarters are located in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States.


As of 2011,[needs update] Avis Budget is the leading general-use vehicle rental company in North America, Australia and New Zealand.[7]




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 References


  • 3 In popular culture


  • 4 External links





History


Following the decision to dissolve the Cendant company name and split into four separate companies, the vehicle rental division of Cendant became Avis Budget Group in 2006.[8] At the end of 2008, Avis Budget became the first vehicle rental company to begin deployment RFID transponders in their fleet using a product from TransCore which includes an active RFID tag that can work with nearly all electronic toll collections systems in the United States, including E-ZPass in the Northeast, TxTag (Texas) and SunPass (Florida).[9]


On September 5, 2012, Avis Budget Group acquired Apex Car Rentals of New Zealand. [4][10]


On 14 March 2013 Avis Budget Group purchased Zipcar for about US$500 million in cash. Zipcar now operates as a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group. Scott Griffith, who had run the company for the previous 10 years, resigned the day after the acquisition closed, and passed the reins to a new company President, Mark Norman.[11]


On April 9, 2015, Avis Budget Group announced it had completed the acquisition of Maggiore Group, Italy's fourth-largest vehicle rental company.[5][12]



References





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  2. ^ "Avis Budget Group". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-12-07.


  3. ^ ab "Avis Car Rental and Budget Car Rental Recognized Among Top 50 'Green' Brands". avisbudgetgroup.com.


  4. ^ ab "Avis Budget Group Announces Agreement to Acquire Apex Car Rentals of New Zealand". avisbudgetgroup.com.


  5. ^ ab "Avis Budget Group Completes Acquisition of Maggiore Group". avisbudgetgroup.com.


  6. ^ "Avis Budget to buy Zipcar for $500 mln". Reuters. Retrieved 2 January 2013.


  7. ^ "Avis Beats on Better Travel Trends". Zacks Investment Research. May 4, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-14.


  8. ^ "Cendant to become Avis. Budget". Pacific Business News. August 29, 2006. Retrieved 18 August 2012.


  9. ^ "Avis Budget Group Plans to Put Interoperable Toll Transponders on the Road". RFID Journal. December 23, 2008. Retrieved 2011-05-14.


  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-09.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  11. ^ Rebecca Greenfield (2013-03-15). "Uh Oh, ZipCar's CEO Stepped Down Right After Its Merger with Avis". theatlanticwire.com.


  12. ^ Emily Bader (9 April 2015). "Avis completes $160M acquisition of Italian vehicle rental business". NJBIZ.




In popular culture


In the Seth MacFarlane's TV series The Orville, Avis is referenced as a Car Rental Company as well as the God of an alien species called The Krill.



External links



  • Official website


    • Business data for Avis Budget Group: Google Finance

    • Yahoo! Finance

    • Reuters

    • SEC filings














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