businesscars.com has a solid partnership with Budget Rent a Car in many countries. The tradition of Budget Rent a Car has it’s origin in 1958 when Morris Mirkin opened a small car rental company in Los Angeles. With its original fleet of 10 cars the company lived up to the 'Budget' name by undercutting the daily and per mile rental rates of the established airport based car rental companies. In 1959 Mirkin was joined by Julius Lederer. After the headquarters was moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1960, the rental fleet expanded with franchised and wholly owned rental outlets.

The company was eventually acquired by Transamerica Corporation in 1968. After 18 years it was sold again in 1986 in a leveraged buyout by Gibbons, Green and van Amerongen Ltd., along with management (led by CEO Clifton E. Haley) and selected investors. It was taken public in 1987.

The public company was purchased by Team Rental Group in 1997, which took the name Budget Group. In 2002 the company's assets were sold to Cendant Corporation, which also owned Avis. In September 2006 Cendant Corporation separated into four independent companies by spinning off its real estate division, now called Realogy, Inc., and its hospitality services division, now Wyndham Worldwide, and by selling its travel distribution services division, called Travelport, Inc., to an affiliate of The Blackstone Group. In 2006, following the Travelport sale, Cendant, now composed solely of its vehicle rental services businesses, renamed itself Avis Budget Group.

You can find car rental offers from Budget Rent a Car, Avis and other car rental companies by entering a destination, a pick-up date and a drop-off date.

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