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These Companies Offer Big Discounts To NRA Members

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 03.05.2013 | Business
Read More: Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Enterprise, National Rifle Association, NRA Member Discount, NRA Members-Only Discount Program, NRA Discounts, Gun Control, Hertz, Nra, Wyndham Hotel, Business News

It pays to be a member of the NRA. Major corporations, ranging from Wyndham Hotels to Enterprise Rent-A-Car, participate in the National Rifle As...

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.22.2013 | Green
Read More: Nrdc, Emc, Mit, Big Data, Green Business, China, US Drought 2012, Staples, Apple, Nike, Hybrid Cars, Saudi Arabia, Jeremy Grantham, Bill Mckibben, Bcg, Solar Power, Global Warming, Clean Economy, Fuel Economy Standards, Microsoft, Unilever, Biofuels, Corporate Sustainability, Mayor Bloomberg, Collaborative Consumption, Marks and Spencer, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Zero Waste, Clean Air Act, Transparency, Mckinsey, Natural Capital, Universal Pictures, Carbon Tax, Al Halvorsen, Foxconn, Heineken, Ups, Solyndra, Walmart, John Elkington, Do the Math, Pwc, H&M, Kimberly-Clark, President Obama, Patagonia, Green Supply Chain, Cop18, Greenbiz, Hertz, Dupont, Coca-Cola, Hurricane Sandy, Crayola, Climate Change, Dunkin' Donuts, Flyknit, Tazreen Fashions Fire, Gm, B&Q, Carbon Disclosure Project, Tyson Foods, Open Innovation, Carbon Footprint, Energy Efficiency, Mississippi River, Tesla Model S, Columbia University, Lca, Pepsico, Sasb, Gisr, Green News
Andrew Winston

We may not be keeping pace with these pressures, but leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics. Let's look at some top macro- and company-level stories.

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Planes, Trains and Cars: Cartels Take Over the Travel Industry

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 11.22.2012 | Business
Read More: Mergers and Acquisitions, Theodore Roosevelt, United Airlines, Monopoly, Antitrust, Car Rental, Hertz, Airlines, Oligopoly, Mergers, J.P Morgan, American, Continental, Business News
Blake Fleetwood

If airlines and car rental companies want to increase market share, the big guys should have to earn it by winning the business and loyalty of their customers; not by gobbling up competitors or driving them out of business

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Hertz To Recycle All Its Tires

Posted 10.29.2012 | Green
Read More: Hertz Car Rentals, Green-Travel, Recycling Tires, Hertz Recycling Tires, Hertz Car Rental Tires, Hertz Zero Waste, Hertz Rental Car Tires, Hertz Tire Recycling, Hertz Rental Cars, Hertz, Tire Recycling, Video, Green News

From Mother Nature Network's Jim Motavalli: Do you have any idea what happens to the tires when you junk your car? I didn’t think so. What about ...

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Hertz On Demand: Travel Industry Game Changer?

Paul Brady | Posted 12.17.2012 | Travel
Read More: Hertz Car Rentals, Hertz on Demand, Car Rentals, Hertz, Sharing Economy, Car Sharing, Zipcar, Slideexpand, Travel News
Paul Brady

Why rent a car for your whole trip -- and pay to park it -- when you only need it for a day?

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Good News! Car Rental Companies Agree To Stop Leasing Hazardous Vehicles

AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.27.2012 | Home
Read More: Car Rental Companies, Avis, Enterprise, Car Recalls, National, Car Rental Recall, Car Rental Recalled Vehicles, Thrifty, Car Rental, Hertz, Home News

ALBANY, N.Y. — When Cally Houck lost her two daughters in the wreck of what turned out to be a defective rental car, she thought there must be a...

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Hertz: An Unqualified Success in Customer Service

Shelly Palmer | Posted 09.17.2012 | Technology
Read More: Rental Cars, Hertz, Technology, Customer Service, Technology News
Shelly Palmer

A few weeks ago, while cruising the highways of Southern California in the Ford Mustang GT500 I rented from Hertz, I was forced to skip two unmanned t...

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The Retail Revolution

Yuchun Lee | Posted 07.22.2012 | Technology
Read More: Ibm, Smarter Ideas, Urban Outfitters, Revolution, Hertz Car Rental, Retail, Hertz, Technology, Supply-Chain-Management, Retail Revolution, Video, Bblog-Ibm22, Technology News
Yuchun Lee

All of us have a front-row seat to watch the biggest revolution in retail shopping since department stores were first built a century ago in the center of cities. Because we, the consumers, are leading the revolution.

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New Google Doodle WIll Mesmerize You

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 02.22.2012 | Technology
Read More: Heinrich Hertz, Google, Video, Hertz Google Doodle, Google Doodle Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Hertz Google Doodle, Google Doodle Hertz, Google Doodle, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Google Logo, Hertz Birthday, Hertz, Technology News

On February 22, Google's homepage sports a colorful doodle that waves on endlessly. Simply click through the animation, and the story behind this styl...

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Hertz Fires Muslim Employees For Praying On The Job

Posted 12.22.2011 | Religion
Read More: Islam, Video, Hertz Muslims, Hertz-Muslim-Drivers, Hertz-Fires-Drivers, Muslims Fired Over Prayer, Muslims Hertz Prayer, Hertz-Muslim-Bus-Drivers-Suspension, Prayer Job Muslims, Hertz, Religion News

A few weeks after being put on suspension, more than 20 Muslim drivers were fired by Hertz for refusing to clock out before taking prayer breaks. T...

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Hertz Suspends Drivers For Praying On the Job

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 12.07.2011 | Religion
Read More: Islam, Video, Muslim Bus Drivers, Hertz Muslim Bus Drivers Suspension, Hertz Suspends Bus Drivers, Herts Suspends Muslim Bus Drivers, Hertz, Hertz Suspension, Religion News

"If you guys pray, you go home." That's what Hertz shuttle driver Zainab Aweis recounted her manager as saying, according to CBS. A recent polic...

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Solar Power: Competitive Business Tool

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Samba Energy, Solar Energy, Hidary, Solar, Hertz, Hertz Solar Program, Hertz Solar Power, Green News
Jack Hidary

Hertz announced today it is embarking on the largest solar program in its industry.

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Carlye Group Plans IPO Next Year

washingtonpost.com | Thomas Heath | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: William E. Conway Jr., Hertz, Dunkin' Donuts, Ipos, Carlyle Group Ipo, Private Equity, IPO Market, Carlyle Group, Business News

The Carlyle Group, the District-based investment giant, is saying for the first time that it will likely sell ownership shares to the public, a move t...

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Hertz To Rent Electric Cars By The Hour

techcrunch.com | Lora Kolodny | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Car Rentals, Rental Cars, Chevy Volt, Hertz, Electric Car Rentals, Techcrunch, Electric Cars, Business News

Hertz Rent A Car is set to offer electric vehicles at an hourly rate starting December 15th in New York City, with expansion of the service to San Fra...

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What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Slovenia, Hertz, Italy, Italian Drivers, Hay Dryers, World News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I went to Slovenia. Some people get it. They say, "Oh! Goin' off the grid, huh?" or "That's pretty, right?" And they are correct on both counts.

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Hertz To Buy Rival Dollar Thrifty For $1.2B

AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Hertz Buys Dollar Thrifty, Hertz, Hertz Dollar Thrifty, Hertz Dollar, Dollar Thrifty, Business News

CHICAGO — Hertz Global Holdings Inc. said Monday it has agreed to buy rival Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group for about $1.17 billion in cash and ...

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Toyota Recall: Alamo, Enterprise, National Car Rental Companies Pull Toyotas

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Alamo, Avis, Enterprise, Toyota, Pontiac Vibe, National Car Rental, Toyota Recall, Hertz, Cars, Recalled Toyotas, Business News

NEW YORK — Three car rental companies said Wednesday they are pulling thousands of Toyotas from their fleets over faulty gas pedals. The Pontia...

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Worst Companies To Work For: Glassdoor.com's List (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United Airlines, Slidepoll, Level 3 Communications, Worst Places to Work, Dhl Express, Gibson, Spherion, CEO Job Performance, Job-Performance, Rain Bird, Worst Companies to Work For, Autozone, Dominion Enterprises, Hertz, glassdoor.com, Dhl, Business News

Glassdoor.com, a web forum where users share employment-related information, released the results of its survey of the best and worst companies to wor...

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Ownership Is So Last Century: From Owners/Consumers to Borrowers/Lenders

Starre Vartan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Hertz, Consumers, Car Sharing, Lending, Borrowing, Seventh Generation, Burlington-Vermont, Green News
Starre Vartan

When I get to thinking about it, the only things I want to own outright are things I want to pass along to another generation, that have personal meaning to me. Who needs the rest?

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The Cartographic Crux of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Green Line, 1967-Green-Line, Israeli Politics, Hertz, Israel, World News
Michael Shtender-Auerbach

The fraught political realities on the ground that are captured in the mapmaking process lie at the very heart of the problem.

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Hertz's One State Solution: Netanyahu's Rent-a-Car Ally

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, One-State Solution, Gaza, West Bank, Corporate Responsibility, Israel-Palestine, Commerce Department, Palestinians, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business, Corporate-Social-Responsibility, Corporate America, Rental Cars, Two-State Solution, Israel, Hertz, World News
Michael Shtender-Auerbach

With Hertz operating in every major Middle Eastern country, one would think Hertz would recognize how utterly offensive its map is and immediately repeal its use.

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January Car Sales -- a Final Reckoning Begins in Earnest ?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Big Pharma, Porsche, Scion, Automotive News, Chrysler, President Obama, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz, Cars, Fiat, Ford, Gmac, Buy American, Chevy Silverado, Cerberus Capital Management, General Motors, Maybach, Stimulus Package, Hyundai, Hertz, Barbara Mikulski, Toyota, Detroit Three, Chevy Malibu, Lexus, Mexico, Xerox, Smart Car, Automotive Fleet, Subaru, Daimler, Japan, Europe, China, Business News
Steve Parker

Until the travel business picks up and businesses in general start replacing their vehicle fleets, Detroit will be outside looking in.

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Hertz To Cut Over 4,000 Jobs Worldwide

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Job Cutz, Hertz, Hertz Job Cuts, Business News

PARK RIDGE, N.J. — Rental car company Hertz Global Holdings Inc. said Friday it will slash its work force by an additional 4,000 jobs worldwide ...

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Airport Hell

Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Airport Security, Travel Industry, Delta, Baggage Fees, Hertz, Airport, Customer Service, Bag Check, Airlines, Delta Airlines, Portland Oregon, Style News
Melissa Biggs Bradley

I was despaired this holiday season to witness the new low that has arrived at our airports and how American travel companies are participating in their own demise and demonization.

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