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...fact, battlegrounds in the latest incarnation of the rental-car wars--a fight to grab neighborhood business from market leader Enterprise Rent-A-Car. For years, Keenan was a loyal promoter of Enterprise rentals to customers who needed a replacement car. Then he got a call from Hertz, which was looking to branch away from Philadelphia's airport and downtown and into the local market. After thorough negotiating, including a driving tour to show a Hertz executive the locations of his stores, Keenan leased Hertz space in or adjacent to four of his shops. Now almost all his customers drive...
...that's booming. Airport sales are increasing minimally, if at all, while business at local rental shops, which serve folks looking to replace a car in the shop or to rent wheels for business and leisure travel, is growing 5% to 10% a year. That's why airport heavyweight Hertz, a Ford subsidiary, is making an all-out assault on the slice of the business that Enterprise dominates with about 5,200 shops and two-thirds market share. Hertz, with about 1,300 nonairport locations, is expanding the number of its neighborhood locales about 25% a year and projects that...
Competitors have tried--and failed--to break Enterprise's lock on nonairport business before. Hertz and Avis as well as Alamo retreated from expansion efforts after underestimating how difficult the local market is. While airport locations simply collect deplaning customers, local shops have to make tough decisions about where to build storefronts. National advertising spurs airport rentals, but generating neighborhood sales often requires a more personal touch, starting with national insurance companies and working all the way down to local operators like Keenan. In the late 1990s, Hertz tried to blanket the country, then pulled back when the company couldn...
...weapons of mass destruction are people in the U.S. without health care; Bush didn’t find weapons of mass destruction and he’s taking money away from needed causes in the U.S.,” said member at large Noah Hertz-Bunzl...
...Also, regarding the inaccurate accusation put forth by Noah Hertz-Bunzl (Op-Ed, “Reality Check in the Race for President,” Oct. 18), attacking Mr. Nader’s loyalties, anyone with basic knowledge of Mr. Nader’s intentions and Green Party politics would know that it was the Green Party nomination process that was deficient, not Mr. Nader’s loyalty. The late date which they had for nominating their presidential candidate did not allow Mr. Nader the proper amount of time he needed to begin the process of getting onto...