Commitment to Innovation and Growth Makes FY2018 Another Record-Breaking Year for World’s Largest Car Rental Operator

As the industry’s most innovative – and the world’s largest – car rental operator, Enterprise Holdings Inc. just scored another record-breaking fiscal year (FY2018) with more revenues, transactions, vehicles, locations, investments and customer miles logged than ever before.

During FY2018, Enterprise Holdings – together with its affiliate Enterprise Fleet Management – increased annual revenues 8 percent to $24.1 billion. Total transactions exceeded 72 million for Enterprise Holdings’ portfolio of car rental brands: Enterprise Rent-A-Car,  National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car. Global fleet size grew to 2 million. In addition, Enterprise Holdings’ fully staffed neighborhood and airport locations, which increased to more than 10,000, facilitated more than 30 billion miles logged by customers worldwide.

Read More: Interview with Akemi Tsunagawa, Founder and CEO, Bespoke Inc

Strategic Acquisitions & Investments

Enterprise Holdings’ acquisition and corporate venture-capital strategy continues to focus on technologies and business models that not only can accelerate industry-leading transportation solutions, but also customer satisfaction in a rapidly changing marketplace.

In 2007, Enterprise purchased the National and Alamo brands – its largest acquisition to date – and significantly increased its airport presence and global travel industry leadership. Since 2008, Enterprise has spent almost $2.4 billionmaking acquisitions and corporate-venture capital investments or commitments in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Ireland, Spain, Brazil and China. Acquisitions include car rental companies, carshare operations, technology platforms and franchises.

Read More: Millennial Parents Feel More Secured about AI Babysitting their Generation Alpha Kids!

Enterprise Holdings currently makes capital investments or commitments through its wholly owned entity, Clayton Venture Partners, which invests in post-revenue companies that have proven business models and an emphasis on emerging transportation technology and mobility. During FY2018, Enterprise Holdings completed new investments in Mobi, a human-centric real-time routing, assessment and planning technology company; and Migo, a multi-modal ground transportation metasearch app; as well as others that have yet to be announced.

Other publicly disclosed investments include:

• Mobileye, a developer of vision-based advanced driver-assistance systems (sold to Intel 2017).
• Deem, a managed travel technology platform.
• Quanergy, a leading autonomous vehicle sensor company.
• Coolfire Solutions, an IoT (Internet of Things) and situational-awareness technology platform.

Constant Innovation

While investments in emerging technologies plant seeds for future services, Enterprise Holdings and its affiliates are also committed to the kind of innovation, problem-solving and industry leadership that helps customers meet their current mobility needs today and in the future. For example, during FY2018, they:

• Partnered with Voyage, a company that is developing autonomous automotive options for communities across North America.
• Participated in a New York City carsharing program that dedicates hundreds of parking spots in more than a dozen neighborhoods in four boroughs.
• Helped businesses run their truck fleets more efficiently and meet new federal operating standards with Enterprise Telematics.
• Published an article in the ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) Journal: “The Value of Vanpooling as a Strategic, Cost-effective and Sustainable Transportation Option.”
• Kicked off a new “Move Forward” marketing campaign that explores how innovators are using transportation technology to improve modern cities.

Read More: Innovative AI to Help You Get to the Heart of Your Customers’ Needs

“We continue to thrive, year after year, because we know nothing is more important than taking exceptional care of customers every single day, across all brands and all business lines,” said Christine Taylor, Enterprise Holdings’ Chief Operations Officer and granddaughter of Enterprise Holdings’ founder. “This kind of success in the highly competitive mobility sector is a direct reflection of our corporate culture and deep-rooted spirit of service and innovation.”

Read More: Seeing Machines Delivers Precision DMS Technology to OEM Companies