National Car Rental

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National Car Rental
Subsidiary
Industry Rental car
Founded August 27, 1947
Headquarters Clayton, Missouri, United States
Parent Enterprise Holdings, Inc.
Website www.nationalcar.com
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National Car Rental is a rental car company based in Clayton, Missouri. National was founded by 24 independent rental car agents on August 27, 1947. It has grown from 60 locations in the United States in 1947 to over 2000 locations internationally as of 2005.

National was owned by an investment group containing William Lobeck of Tulsa, Alvin Swanner of New Orleans and Archer McWhorter of Houston.[1] Later sold in 1995 at an estimated price of $1 Billion.[1]

In 1996, National acquired the Canadian fleet and operations of Tilden Rent-a-Car.

National is owned by Enterprise Holdings.

On August 1, 2007 Enterprise Rent-A-Car assumed control of Vanguard Automotive Group. It was purchased from Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.

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