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Thrifty Named Top Car Rental Company by Entrepreneur Magazine

3 August 1998

Thrifty Named Top Car Rental Company by Entrepreneur Magazine for Fifth Consecutive Year

    TULSA, Okla., Aug. 3 -- Thrifty Car Rental has been named the
best car rental company by Entrepreneur magazine and received its 1998
Business Travel Award for the fifth consecutive year in this magazine written
for small business owners.
    Entrepreneur magazine's Annual Business Travel Awards highlight the best
products and programs offered by travel service suppliers that have focused on
small-business owners whose travel expenses come out of their own pockets.
    Thrifty is the only car rental company that has received the award every
year since it was first offered in 1994.  The Business Travel Awards are not a
ranking or formal survey, but are a recognition by the magazine's editors of
companies that consistently offer value-conscious travelers affordable
options.
    According to Entrepreneur, Thrifty was cited for "its combination of low
rates, frequent-flier program tie-ins, multiple locations and efficient
customer service without all the unnecessary bells and whistles" offered by
its competitors.
    Thrifty Car Rental is an international network of nearly 1,200 locations
in 71 countries around the world.  Thrifty serves both the airport market and
the local car rental market, and is one of the country's largest airport
parking operators with more than 14,000 spaces in 48 U.S. cities.