Vanguard Car Rental Group Inc. | |
Type: | Private |
Location: | Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Key People: | Greg Stubblefield (President) Bill Lobeck (CEO) |
Revenue: | $12.1 billion (2007) |
Num Employees: | 12,600 |
Industry: | Car rental |
Homepage: | vanguardcar.com |
Vanguard Automotive Group was a vehicle rental company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Vanguard purchased ANC Rental, owner of National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car. It had a fleet of nearly 300,000 vehicles, mainly from Ford and Chrysler, and operated in over 1,500 locations.[1] In 2007, Enterprise agreed to purchase a controlling share in the company from Cerberus Capital Management.[2] A sale to rival Enterprise Rent-A-Car was completed on August 1, 2007, making the combined Enterprise-Alamo-National the largest US car rental operation, ahead of The Hertz Corporation and Avis Budget Group.