Avis Car Rental
Avis Car Rental, LLC is an American car rental company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. Along with Budget Rent a Car, Budget Truck Rental and Zipcar, Avis is a unit of Avis Budget Group.
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Car rental |
| Founded | 1946 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States |
| Founder | Warren Avis |
| Headquarters | Parsippany, New Jersey, United States |
Number of locations | 5,500 (2019) |
Areas served | 165 countries |
Key people | Joe Ferraro (CEO and president) |
| Revenue | US$5.3 billion (2019) |
| Parent | Avis Budget Group |
| Website | www |
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Avis Budget Group operates the Avis brand in South Africa, North America, South America, India, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2011, Avis announced it was acquiring Avis Europe plc, which had been a separate corporation licensing the Avis brand.
Since the late 1970s, Avis has featured mainly General Motors (GM) vehicles such as Chevrolet and Cadillac, but today also rents popular non-GM brands including Ford and Toyota.
Avis is a rental car provider to the commercial segment serving business travelers at major airports internationally, and to leisure travellers at off-airport locations. Many of the off-airport locations are franchised operations rather than company-owned and -operated, as is the case with most airport locations. Avis was the first car rental business to be located at an airport.
In January 2013, the company agreed to acquire Zipcar for $491 million.