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How to Maximize Your Return at Resale
The used car market is changing rapidly. Are you taking advantage of every opportunity to maximize end-of-term revenues?

Our panel of remarketing experts will help you to understand: market cycles, proper remarketing channels for your situation, types of reconditioning to give you the best return, when to hold and when to take the hit, what buyers want in a used car, how to approach dealers with your inventory and how to plan for resale when you purchase.

Closing Keynote Funding Panel
The funding landscape is in a state of flux. Are banks still lending? Are there new avenues for funding?

This panel discussion will feature key rental fleet lenders providing their perspectives on funding issues and opportunities in this unprecedented era of tight credit and limited liquidity.

 


 

 

 

OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: STRATEGIC INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

Matt Darrah, senior vice president of North American Operations, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Rent-A-Car and Alamo Rent-A-Car, will provide a strategic industry overview from the perspective of North America’s largest and most comprehensive car rental company, which collectively operates a U.S. fleet of more than 850,000 vehicles and a coast-to-coast network of more than 6,800 neighborhood and airport locations on behalf of all three brands.

 

 


 

DRIVE ELECTRIC!

Eckhaus Fleet, in conjunction with Zenn Motor Company, will have a Zenn electric vehicle available to drive during CRS. Visit the Eckhaus Fleet booth to sign up to drive—and experience for yourself an important mode of future of transportation.

 

 



Chris Brown is executive editor of Auto Rental News. He can be reached at chris.brown@bobit.com.

 

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