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Vanguard Automotive Group was a vehicle rental company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Car rental |
Headquarters | Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Key people | Greg Stubblefield (President) Bill Lobeck (CEO) |
Revenue | $12.1 billion (2007) |
Number of employees | 12,600 |
Website | vanguardcar.com |
Vanguard purchased ANC Rental, owner of National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car. It had a fleet of nearly 300,000 vehicles, mainly from Ford and Chrysler, and operated in over 1,500 locations.[1] In 2007, Enterprise agreed to purchase a controlling share in the company from Cerberus Capital Management.[2] A sale to rival Enterprise Rent-A-Car was completed on August 1, 2007, making the combined Enterprise-Alamo-National the largest US car rental operation, ahead of The Hertz Corporation and Avis Budget Group.
References
edit- ^ Hoovers
- ^ John Heinzl (June 26, 2007). "Discount strategy a rental accident waiting to happen". Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 11, 2007.