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Novinky v skupine United Group News in United Group gained the award Erik Stríž, Juraj Mačík We try harder The watchword “We try harder” has the rumour of one of the most known avdertising watchwords in the world. It became an expression of company philosophy and its employees as well, which is the continuous improving of services and the confirmed reservation price. An international engaging of AVIS has deserved a lot of inovations in the field of car renting and its Slovak affiliated company owes nothing to this gained prestige. Slovak AVIS has several primacies on its account. For example just AVIS has in Slovakia most affiliated companies from among all competitive car rentals - and it is still working on their expanding. Besides, Slovak AVIS takes care of recency of the carriage stock and that there are only the newest models of Every year the book is published all over the world and also local, in which there is a selection from the most valued and most popular brands. Among various fashion brands, premium carmakers, pres­ tige hotels and products you can find there the car rental AVIS too. carmakers. To 80% of the fleet is formed by diesel cars and by their every year purchasese the emphasis on their safety standard, consumption and image, which is for the demanding clients of AVIS so important, is increasing. Not less interesting is that besides classic rents the Slovak AVIS offers also everything what is connected with it. A client has the possibility to solve complete logistic services from car rental to driver services, van rent and operative leasing. AVIS stays also in the future loyal to an idea “We try harder”. 7 decades of gaining know-how The company AVIS started up in year 1946 when the pilot of U.S. Force Warren Avis founded a car rental with three vehicles at the airport Willow Run in American Detroit. After half century it became a top company enterprising in the field of car rent in more than 170 countries of the world with 500 000 cars. In the year 1996 AVIS gained by aquisition a local seller for creating of general representation in Slovakia. Vladimír Orth, who started in 1992 with small local car rental offering Škoda Favorit and Felícia, took part in a tender of an international company: “I found out that if I want to achieve higher metas I will not do without foreign know how because the market will increasingly ask for services above the standard. After a victory in tender and subscribing a contract we had to transform the whole car park in one year, to equip the firm by new cars of nine classes from the class A to class H. We sold the old cars and opened two new affiliated companies,” remembers Mr. Orth, general director of United Rental Group.  ■ 53