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Third Party Store Ratings:
* 1.6/5.0 (Source: Google Ratings for Avis Rent A Car)

Third Party Services:
* Paypal: Not Accepted
* Shoprunner: Not accepted

Customer Service and Locations:
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* Avis Rent A Car Facebook page
* Avis Rent A Car Twitter profile

Avis Rent A Car Headquarters:
6 Sylvan Way
Parsippany, NJ 07054

More About Avis

Avis is an American car rental company based out of Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. Avis Budget Group is the parent company of Avis, Budget Rent a Car and Budget Truck Rental. Avis was founded by Warren Avis in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1946.

Warren Avis, a former Army Air Corps flyer, founded Avis Airlines Rent a Car with an $85,000 investment and was the first company to open a car rental service located at an airport. Avis started with three cars at Willow Run Airport in near Detroit in Michigan. He believed the air travel industry was going to take off as the leading way to travel over the rail system. He also, opened a location at Miami Airport in Florida soon after his first opening.

Avis’s idea was an immediate success and within the next few years he was operating locations all across the United States, including airports in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Washington, Los Angeles and Houston. By 1948, Avis was known nationally and in that year the company dropped the “airlines” from its name as they were soon expanding to more urban areas to serve the business and hotel market.

By the mid 1950s Avis had 185 locations in the United States and had expanded internationally, acquiring ten in Canada and one in Mexico, and they established agreements with car rental agencies throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. Avis sold to Richard Robie, a car-rental operator in New England in 1954.

Robie continue the expansion, introducing a one-way car rental system and a company charge card. Avis was producing sales of $4 million in 1956; however Robie was experience financial difficulties and sold Avis to the Amoskeag Company and other investors. Under the new leadership, growth continued implementing an electronic data processing system to facilitate the company’s innovative corporate charge card billing system; they established car leasing; and they were able to obtain licenses to include markets in Austria, Belgium, Norway and Spain.

Avis was owned by many companies throughout the years, and it went public under ITT Corporation’s ownership as a spin off. Cendant acquire Avis in 2001, however Cendant split into four different companies in 2006 and Avis Budget Group, Inc is now the parent company of Avis Rent a Car System, LLC.

Today, Avis Budget Group operates the Avis brand in North America, South America, Australia, India and New Zealand. They also recently acquired Avis Europe plc. They have approximately 5,500 locations in more than 165 countries. They have been very innovative in the car rental industry and have received many accolades for customer loyalty. Avis is the third largest car rental agency in the world trailing behind Hertz Corporation. They offer a wide variety of cars for rentals and have branched out from just offering the General Motors vehicles such as Chevrolet and Cadillac to include popular Ford and Toyota models. They are known for their excellent service and placing their customers first. Avis website is user friendly and you will find the best rates booking a rental online. They also accept promo codes upon checkout.