Avis

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AVIS Rent A Car System is an international company providing car rental services. Presented more than 5,750 rental points in 165 countries of the world serving more than 10 million customers annually. Headquarters is located in Parsippanne, New Jersey, USA. Together with companies Budget Rent A Car, Budget Truck Rental, Payless, Apex Car Rentals, Maggiore, Zipcar is part of the Avis Budget Group.

From the late 1970s, Avis has been mainly produced by General Motors (GM), such as Chevrolet and Cadillac, but today also rents popular brands that are not related to GM, including Ford and Toyota.

Currently, AVIS has a wide range of services related to vehicles:

Rental and rental cars in various price segments,

Car leasing.

AVIS Preferred loyalty program, which allows customers to use a number of advantages.

Timeline

January 2013

The company agreed to purchase ZIPCAR (Zipkar) for $ 491 million.

1973

Avis becomes a leading player in the car rental market in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, gradually entering the car leasing market.

1972

AVIS is developing an innovative Wizard system with a real-time booking and car rental feature, which still finds wide application in the industry.

1965

With the basis of Avis Europe's subsidiary, large-scale successful AVIS promotion to the European market, accompanied by the opening of numerous branches in a number of European countries.

1962

Avis’s corporate slogan was approved: “We Try Harder!”, Woning in the ten best slogans of all time according to several portals and reflected the essence of the concept of Avis: “We are the second, therefore we make more efforts than others.”

1953

Over the next few years, Warren Evis opened a number of branches of his company in different cities of the United States, making it to the second largest car rental firm in the country.

1946

FOUNDATION OF THE COMPANY