ENTERPRISE BUILDS ON PEOPLE When most people think of car rentals firms‚ the names of Hertz and Avis usually comes to mind. But in the last few years‚ Enterprise Rent-A-Car has overtaken both these industry giants and today it stands as both the largest and the most profitable business in the car rental industry. In 2001‚for instance the firm had sales in excess of $6.3 bn and employed over 50‚000 people. Jack Taylor started Enterprise in St Louis in 1957.Taylor had a unique strategy in mind
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revolutionizing the video rental business. It clearly shows the company’s ability on utilizing superior customer service‚ emerging technologies‚ strategic partnerships‚ empowerment of employees and creating an ever growing subscriber base to transform the traditional video rental in to a 21st century on-demand concept. Video-on-Demand is the recent video streaming technology where pay-per-view programming merges with Internet downloading. Netflix‚ an online subscription-based DVD rental company‚ entered the
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The Cars Then‚ Now and Tomorrow Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! it’s superman ? No it’s my dad in his new car. Men have made great creations and also improve them by the pass of the years. Cars is one of them and back in the 1960’s cars were big with a huge motor that run about 40 miles per hour. Now a normal car can go 5 times faster. Now in days we add a lot of technologic features to our cars. This advances will keep going and
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Muscle Cars: Past and Present There have been many different car designs throughout the years but none as popular as the muscle cars of the 1960’s. The 1960’s was a golden era for American automakers with the creation of the vintage iron. With that era long gone‚ the automakers were driven to recreate visions of the past. The 1960’s muscle car is the inspiration to the newly resurrected models of 2010 with great style and performance. Muscle cars are an American icon‚ and it still holds true with
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Google’s driverless car 1. What is it? The Google Driverless Car is a project by Google that involves developing technology for driverless cars. The innovative technology latest product is a fully automated car that does not require a human driver. The modified cars ’ most noticeable feature is a rotating sensor on the roof that scans 360 degrees for more than 200 feet in diameter‚ creating a 3D map of the car ’s location. A sensor on the left rear wheel measures the car ’s movements in detail
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Enzo Ferrari “What’s behind you doesn’t matter‚” said Enzo Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari was a car maker and entrepreneur (a person who starts a business) who loved cars more than anyone else. Enzo Ferrari was the man who made the company “Ferrari” and built the Ferrari cars. He never gave up even when the going was tough. In the beginning Enzo Ferrari’s passion for driving and building cars began at a very young age. On February 18‚ 1898 Enzo Anselmo Ferrari was born in Modena‚ Italy. Enzo Ferrari
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Hybrid Car Technology: One Way to Reduce the Air Pollution Contents Bil. 1. Titles Introduction Pages 2 2. Hybrid Car Technology: One Way to Reduce the Air Pollution 3-5 3. Conclusion 6 4. Appendix 7-8 5. Reference 9 1 Introduction There are millions of cars on the road of Malaysia especially in Kuala Lumpur‚ main city of Malaysia. Each one is a source of air pollution in this country. The amount of pollutants such as Carbon Monoxide that
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Luxury-Car Makers Look Beyond Home Market BMW to expand Plant in U.S.‚ Daimler Will Boost Investment in China Venture By William Boston and Neal E. Boudette Updated March 28‚ 2014 2:56 p.m. ET A new BMW X4 is unveiled last Friday at the BMW manufacturing plant in Greer‚ South Carolina as the Germany luxury auto maker announced a $1 billion expansion for the plant. Associated Press German luxury car manufacturers BMW AG and Daimler AG have unveiled plans to spend billions on new car factories
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(2001) GDP : PPP $7.262 trillion (2004 est.) Per Capita : $5‚600 (2004 est.) Form : People ’s Republic Official Languages : Chinese (Mandarin) Growth Rate in Real GDP : 1999 7.1% 2000 8.0% 2001 7.3% 2002 8.0% 2003 8.4% 2004 9.1% Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.1% (2004 est.) Located in South East Asia‚ China is home to 1.3 billion people and constitutes 22% of the world ’s population. Stringent rules of the Marxist policies‚ an autocratic socialist system‚ left China a
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and Toyota (Brown‚ 2013). The partnership is very important for Tesla‚ because supplying these companies constitutes the high share of their profit and thus‚ they cannot lose them‚ making their power considerably high. However‚ they also sell their cars to individual customers‚ and many government incentives give potential customers tax credit deduction (Ministry of Transportation‚ 2010). These
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