- Europcar
Europcar is a
Paris basedcar rental company owned by the French investment companyEurazeo , after its sale by theVolkswagen group in June 2006. The company was founded in Paris in 1949. Europcar today operates a fleet of over 200,000 vehicles at 2,825 locations in 143 different countries coveringEurope ,North America ,The Middle East ,Africa ,Latin America , theIndian Ocean , theCaribbean andAsia Pacific .While Europcar is an international car rental company, the brand is best recognized in the larger European economies, particularly,
Germany ,France and the UK. Their core markets are inleisure and corporate rentals.As part of a cost-cutting strategy, Volkswagen chose to divest from its Europcar holdings. On
June 1 ,2006 , the sale of Europcar to French investment company Eurazeo was completed.In 2007 Europcar purchased Vanguard EMEA for €670 million. Vanguard EMEA is the operator of National car rental and
Alamo Rent A Car in Europe. As part of this purchase a partnership was made for any business that Europcar would send to North America it would be directed toNational Car Rental , instead of their previous North American Partner Thrifty Car Rental.External links
* [http://www.eurazeo.com/uk/index.php Eurazeo] Parent company
* [http://europcar.com/ Europcar] Official worldwide site
* [http://www.carrentaldir.com/history-of-europcar.html History of Europcar]
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