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Avis Rent a Car System, LLC, better known as Avis, is an American car rental company headquartered in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, United States.〔"(Corporate Facts )." Avis Rent a Car System. Retrieved on June 14, 2009.〕 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, India, (Australia ) and, (New Zealand ). Recently Avis has acquired Avis Europe plc which once was a separate corporation licensing the Avis brand. Avis is the second largest car rental agency in the world preceded by Hertz Corporation. 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 leading rental car provider to the commercial segment serving business travelers at major airports around the world, 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. ==History== The company was founded in 1948 with three cars at Willow Run Airport,〔''Business Superbrands'', Editor: Marcel Knobil, Author James Curtis (2000), Superbrands Ltd. ISBN 0-9528153-4-6, p. 18.〕 Ypsilanti, Michigan, by Warren Avis (August 4, 1915 – April 24, 2007).〔(Car-Rental Pioneer Avis Dies at 92 ), ''Morning Edition'', 25 April 2007〕 It established branch operations across the United States over the next few years, becoming the second largest car rental company in the country by 1953. By its tenth anniversary in 1956 it had opened its first international offices in Europe, Canada and Mexico. Their corporate motto is "We Try Harder" It was adopted in 1962〔(Press release )〕 (during the tenure of Robert Townsend as its CEO) to make a more positive reference of Avis' status as the second largest car rental company in the United States, at the expense of its larger competitor The Hertz Corporation. The slogan was used for 50 years before a re-branding in 2012, in which Avis received a new slogan, "It's Your Space." In 1972, Avis introduced Wizard, the first computer-based information and reservations system to be used in the United States car rental business; to this day, almost all frequent Avis customers are identified by their unique "Wizard number". In 1981, the company instituted its system of vehicle tracking, that was not coincidentally named Advanced Vehicle Identification System (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: *1956 - The Amoskeag Company *1962 - Investment group Lazard Freres *1965 - ITT Corporation *1977 - Norton Simon *1983 - Esmark *1984 - Beatrice *1986 - Investment firm Wesray Capital Corporation *1987 - Majority ownership under an Employee Share Ownership Plan *1989 - General Motors (acquires 29% stake) *1996 - HFS Corporation *2001 - Cendant *2006 - Avis Budget Group 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avis Rent a Car System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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