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Warren Avis is the founder of Avis.
During the Second World War Warren Avis was a major in the American Air Ministry forces. After the end of the war he flied a lot on a bomber. During these flights he always took with him a bicycle. It gave him freedom to move freely in a new place. After discharge from the army Warren Avis faced social life problems. It was forbidden to enter a plain with a bicycle, after landing he had to wait for a taxi. One of the days like this was in 1946. Avis was tired to wait taxi so long and thought that many people around the whole world also wait for a taxi. And it would be much better if there is any car on hand.
1946 - Warren Avis founds the world's first car rental location Avis Airlines Rent a Car Systems at Willow Run Airport, Detroit, USA.
1953 – Avis’s international expansion begins with franchise operations in Europe, Mexico and Canada.
1965 - Formally expands in the international market by founding the representations in Europe, Africa and Middle East (Avis Europe). It becomes a leading rental company in these regions in 1973. Since then Avis is number one among rental companies and one of the rental leaders in North and Latin America.
– Avis offers major technological innovations. Its Wizard system is the first and still the most extensive on-line, real-time reservation and rental system. Interactive Avis system appears in internet in 2000.
Energy, enthusiasm, innovations and continuous improvement are Avis’s distinctive features during many years.
Today Avis offices are open in more than 185 countries all over the world.
We try harder - is not just one of most famous advertising slogans, it is a promise to work better today than we did yesterday. It is the spirit of Avis.
Everyone in the company has an important part to play in achieving excellent and consistent customer service and delivering the "We try harder" promise.
 
Avis in Ukraine
1997 – to enlarge chain of the Avis rental stations a new rental office in Ukraine was opened. At that time Avis fleet had 15 cars, small office and 7 employees. Till the end of 1998 its fleet was 80 cars.
2007 – Opening of new rental station in Lvov.
2008 – Representative offices were opened in Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Kharkov, Simferopol and Borispol.
2006-2008 – Development of partnership with Ukrainian representations of the biggest chain and Ukrainian hotels such as Radisson BLU, Rixos, Atlas, Leopolis, Rus and others. In the hotels Radisson BLU and Rus were opened Avis rental stations.
Today Avis Ukraine fleet has around 2000 cars. More than 200 employees work in the company.
Since 2010 Haim Kapelnikov is the Chief Executive officer of Avis Ukraine. |
Avis History