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NewsNovember 5, 2013

Advantage Placed Under Bankruptcy Protection

Advantage Rent A Car will be placed in Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday, after its new owners logged huge auction losses and questioned the book value of 24,000 vehicles acquired from Hertz last year.

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NewsMarch 20, 2013

FSNA Completes More Hertz Concession Acquisitions

FSNA opened new rental locations at Pittsburgh International Airport and Hilo International as in-terminal operations, and has also moved pre-existing off-airport operations at Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Charlotte Douglas International Airport to in-terminal operations.

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NewsFebruary 20, 2013

FSNA Completes Acquisition of Additional Hertz Concessions

As part of Hertz's divestiture of the Advantage brand to Franchise Services of North America (FSNA), this is one of the scheduled acquisitions of additional on- and off-airport locations.

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NewsDecember 17, 2012

FSNA Says Advantage Merger Deal Now Closed

The company will acquire all 26 of the on-airport locations that the FTC required Hertz to divest.

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NewsDecember 7, 2012

FSNA Announces Management Changes

Tom McDonnell will be the company's sole chief executive officer and chairman. Sanford Miller, the former co-chief executive officer and co-chairman, will not continue in an executive capacity with the company but will continue to serve as a director.

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NewsNovember 21, 2012

FSNA Provides Update on New Advantage Acquisition Details

As a result of the FTC consent order, Hertz will be required to provide the company, or another FTC-approved buyer, with the right to operate on-airport concessions at an additional 13 airports.

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NewsNovember 20, 2012

Hertz Completes Dollar Thrifty Acquisition

Hertz revised earlier statements on the number of on-airport Dollar Thrifty locations it will have to divest, but said it has completed purchasing 99.6% of the shares of Dollar Thrifty common stock.

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NewsNovember 15, 2012

FTC Rules on Hertz’s Acquisition of Dollar Thrifty

According to the FTC’s complaint, Hertz’s original proposed acquisition of Dollar Thrifty would be anticompetitive and would violate both Section 5 of the FTC Act and Section 7 of the Clayton Act, in a number of airport car rental markets.

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NewsNovember 9, 2012

Hertz Again Extends Dollar Thrifty Tender Offer Expiration

The tender offer is now scheduled to expire on Nov. 16, 2012.

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NewsOctober 23, 2012

Hertz Extends Timing Agreement and Offer Expiration for Dollar Thrifty

Hertz said it is assisting the Federal Trade Commission in its review of the case by addressing ‘matters raised by the Commissioners and the staff.’

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