Search engine specialists, Greenlight, have ranked car hire comparator Carrentals.co.uk in poll position when it comes to visibility on the internet and social media marketing. In October 2010, the car rental site achieved 53 per cent of some 763,000 internet searches related to car hire. The site also ranked highest on the Social Media Popularity [...]

Motorists hiring cars overseas are being advised to take photographs of vehicles before they return them to avoid being ripped off. The UK European Consumer Centre (UK ECC) says complaints about hiring cars abroad have shot up 30 percent after they received almost 100 complains in the first five months of 2010.   Complaints received [...]

A major shareholder with the Dollar Thrifty Group has announced that it intends to vote against the car hire firm’s plans to sell to Hertz Global Holdings. PAR Capital Management, owner of a 7.7 per cent stake in the company, made the announcement ahead of a shareholder vote due to take place on Thursday. President [...]

The Hertz Corporation has announced its commitment to action over the new trend of electric vehicles. The leading car hire group, which is the world’s largest general use rental brand, said at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) that it will be using its popular car sharing and car rental programs [...]

Legend Holdings and China Auto Rental have announced at a press conference a new partnership. On September 15, the joint press conference learned that Legend Holdings will inject around 1.2 billion yuan (£114 million) in cash into China Auto Rental as it acquires over a 50 per cent stake in the rental service provider. The [...]

The leading car hire specialist, Avis UK, unveiled the flagship branch at the well-known Westfield shopping centre. The opening is the 15th for Avis in the capital, and its location seeks to offer a quick getaway from London, with connections to the M3, M4 and M40, as well as simple access to Wood Lane and [...]

One leading UK car rental organisation is cracking down on bills. Avis has announced that it has taken on the law firm Ashworth in an attempt to better reconcile its unpaid rental bills. Ashworth, based in Harrogate, has been employed by the hire firm to chase down past customers who left bills for crashed and [...]

The Welsh Assembly Government has told members that they must be more conscientious when it comes to refuelling their hire cars before returning them to dealers. The announcement comes after it was revealed that Welsh civil servants ran up a bill of £23,000 last year through service charges because they did not fill up their [...]

Car rental agencies in Jordan fear that new regulations may force them out of business Recently proposed legislation by the Public Transport Regulatory Commission (PTRC) is threatening many hire company owners, with the rules governing operation making it increasingly difficult for small businesses in particular to survive. According to government officials, the new PTRC regulations [...]

Civil servants in the employment of the Welsh Assembly Government are costing taxpayers. Last year, the group ran up a bill of£23,000 in service charges due to neglecting to refuel their hire cars on return. The amount represents a £2,000 increase from the previous year and over twice that of refuel charges from 2004 when [...]