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Avis Budget Group, Inc.

5/22/2013, 8:10 PM ET
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Sector: Services
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Country: United States

We operate two of the most recognized brands in the global vehicle rental industry through Avis and Budget. Avis is a leading rental car supplier to the premium commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry and Budget is a leading rental car supplier to the value-conscious segments of the industry. We are a leading vehicle rental operator in North America, Australia, New Zealand and certain other regions we serve, based on published airport statistics. We maintain a leading share of airport car rental revenue and operate one of the leading consumer truck rental businesses in the United States.

Our car rental business enjoys significant benefits from operating two distinct brands that target different industry segments but share the same fleet, maintenance facilities, systems, technology and administrative infrastructure. We believe that Avis and Budget both enjoy complementary demand patterns with mid-week commercial demand balanced by weekend leisure demand. In 2009, we generated total revenues of $5,131 million. The Avis, Budget and Budget Truck brands accounted for approximately 61%, 32% and 7% of our revenue, respectively, in 2009.

Our operations have an extended global reach that includes approximately 6,500 car and truck rental locations in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, the Caribbean and parts of Asia. On average, our global rental fleet totaled more than 350,000 vehicles, and we completed more than 23 million vehicle rental transactions worldwide in 2009. Domestically, in 2009, we derived approximately 81% of our nearly $4.0 billion in total car rental revenue from on-airport locations and approximately 19% of our domestic car rental revenue from off-airport locations, which we refer to as our local market business. We rent our fleet of approximately 29,000 Budget trucks through a network of approximately 2,300 dealer-operated and 250 company-operated locations throughout the continental United States. We also license the use of the Avis and Budget trademarks to multiple licensees in areas in which we do not operate. The Avis and/or Budget vehicle rental systems in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia are operated at approximately 3,800 locations by subsidiaries and sub-licensees of an independent third party primarily under royalty-free trademark license agreements.

We operate in the following business segments:

Domestic Car Rental—provides car rentals and ancillary products and services in the United States.
International Car Rental—provides vehicle rentals and ancillary products and services primarily in Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Truck Rental—provides truck rentals and related services to consumers and light commercial users in the United States.