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Avis Rent A Car System, LLC
6 Sylvan Way
Parsippany, NJ 07054
NJ Tel. 973-496-3500
Fax 888-304-2315

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.avis.com
 Employees: 18,000

A major player in the car rental industry, Avis Rent A Car System maintains some 2,100 locations, primarily in the US and Canada but also in Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The company owns about 1,300 of its locations; franchisees operate the rest. A separate company with rights to the Avis name, Avis Europe, operates in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. Together with sister company Budget Rent A Car System, Avis Rent A Car System has a fleet of more than 380,000 rental cars. The company is a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, the remaining unit of the former Cendant conglomerate.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2007:
Sales: $1,677.0M

Officers:
President and CEO: F. Robert (Bob) Salerno
EVP and CFO: Toby Ippolito
EVP, Operations: Michael P. Collins

Competitors:
Dollar Thrifty Automotive
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Hertz

 
 
Wikipedia: Avis Rent a Car System
Avis Rent A Car
Type Car rental
Founded 1946 in Detroit, Michigan
Founder Warren Avis
Headquarters Parsippany, New Jersey
No. of locations ~4900+ (as of 2007)
Employees 14000+ (as of 2007)
Slogan "We Try Harder."
Website http://www.avis.com

Avis Rent A Car System, LLC is a 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.

History

The company was founded in 1946 in Detroit by Warren Avis (b.1915, d. April 24, 2007). 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. In 1981, the company instituted its system of vehicle tracking, that was coincidentally named Advanced Vehicle Identification System, or "AVIS".

Avis has been owned by a number of other companies over the years, along with several periods of being a public company. These include:

Founder Warren Avis died on April 24, 2007 at the age of 91. [2]

Avis Rent A Car had a rental car counter in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

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