Car hire giant Avis Europe has announced an increase in rental income over the period January to April this year. It has put much of the increase in activity down to a noticeable increase in business customers. Income rose 5.2 per cent for the company which offers vehicles under both the Avis and Budget Rent [...]

Avis has agreed to hold off on making a formal offer to acquire Dollar Thrifty so that the two car hire firms can work together to persuade regulators a tie-up will not breach competition rules. The move comes after Hertz failed to secure a positive vote from Dollar shareholders on its takeover bid.
Avis has confirmed [...]

New research reveals that far from being happy about the deactivation of the country’s speed cameras, many motorists are concerned that the move could actually make some parts of the UK increasingly dangerous. RoadPilot, a leading provider of speed camera data, claims that three percent of speed cameras in the UK have already been decommissioned [...]

South Africa’s Barloworld Automotive has announced that it has at last found buyers for its Budget and Avis operations in Scandinavia. The firm has been looking to dispose of its Swedish, Danish and Norwegian assets since 2008, following an internal strategic review which identified car rental projects in Scandinavia as non-core, and therefore disposable.
Barloworld has [...]

Leading car hire firm, Budget-Rent-a-Car, has been awarded a contract to supply vehicles to customers of the Skypark Plaza at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Senior General Manager, UAE, Budget-Rent-a-Car, Salim Damji, said that the company’s successful bid in acquiring space at Skypark Plaza would result in dramatic boost in revenues for Budget in Abu Dhabi. [...]

The car rental industry in South Africa is facing some uncertainty over the next month as predictions over the number of foreign travellers entering the country for the World Cup are dramatically cut. Some industry experts are also saying that elevated room rates and flight prices are keeping the business traveller away.
In the first quarter, [...]

The second and third largest car hire firms in the US have raised the stakes in their fight to secure control over the fourth largest brand, Dollar Thrifty. Third largest rental firm, Hertz, has already put in a bid of $1.2 billion, and the nation’s second largest, Avis, is gearing up to put in a [...]

The world’s greatest football tournament is nearly upon us and for recession battered car hire firms in South Africa that is very good news. Although there has been an improvement in figures over the Christmas holidays, car rental companies are now fixed on preparing themselves for the demand for vehicles the World Cup is expected [...]

AARP is one of America’s most powerful lobbying groups for people over the age of fifty. It used to be an extremely important resource for those who had retired and wished to travel. However critics are saying that the clout it used to have in offering deals and discounts may be on the wane.
Some major [...]

Carrentals.co.uk has cemented its position as the internet’s leading car hire comparison site by coming top of the search rankings for the month of September. Internet analysts Greenlight have just published their Car Hire Sector Report for the third quarter and it shows that Carrentals.co.uk managed to take fifty-four percent of the 1.5 million car [...]