Car rental business suffers from seasonality as Avis and Hertz buck the trend

  • 2010-09-09
  • By Linas Jegelevicius
KLAIPEDA - Had Nebraskan Joe Saunders not lent his Ford Model T, for the first time, to a travelling salesman who wished to impress his girlfriend on a date back in 1916, the car rental business may have waited for another occasion to start off. The Nebraskan was not even aware that this lending would eventually turn out to be a good profit-making business. While Western car rental history will soon reach a centenarian milestone, the Lithuanian rental car business is relatively new, counting a few dozen years. In Lithuania, it started with limousine rentals for weddings back in the 1990s...
 
The article you requested can be accessed only by subscribing to the online version of The Baltic Times. If you are already subscribed to The Baltic Times, please authorize yourself.


In case you don't have a subscription yet - please visit our SUBSCRIPTION section