MyDriver

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myDriver
Native name
Sixt Chauffeur Reservation Systems GmbH & Co. KG
Company typeChauffeur
IndustryChauffeur Service
Founded2012
FounderAlexander Sixt
HeadquartersHausvogteiplatz 2, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland, ,
Germany
Area served
Germany Paris Antibes Belfort Bordeaux Cannes Lille Lyon Marseilles Menton Nice Saint-Tropez Strasbourg Toulouse Rome Milan Turin Venice Florence Pisa Verona Vienna Innsbruck Salzburg Graz Linz Brussels Antwerp Ghent Leuven Prague Paris Monaco Amsterdam Rotterdam The Hague Bucharest Bratislava Barcelona Madrid Bilbao Valencia Majorca Málaga Ankara Istanbul London Birmingham Manchester Liverpool Leeds Copenhagen Stockholm Adana Luxembourg San Sebastian Antalya Bucharest
Key people
Konrad Thoma (CEO) , Johannes Boeinghoff (Managing Director)
Number of employees
100 (2016) [1]
Website https://www.mydriver.com

myDriver is a chauffeur company that operates in more than 150 cities in 60 countries. [2] [3] mydriver is a subsidiary company from Sixt Rent A Car and is part of the new Business Unit Sixt Chauffeured Services. [4] [5]

Contents

History

mydriver was founded in 2013 in Berlin, Germany by Carl Schuster, Andreas Goschler and Oliver Mickler under the company Sixt. [6] [7] It started at the beginning of the year in Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne, Leipzig, Bremen, Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Dresden.

In 2014 mydriver expanded to other parts of Germany, Paris, and Vienna. [8] In the end of 2015 mydriver formally launched in France, Austria and the Netherlands [9] [10] The company began offering services in 2016 to Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Monaco, Romania, Czech Republic, Turkey, and the United States. [11] [12] [13] [14]

In 2017 mydriver, the Sixt Chauffeur Service and Sixt rides joined to operate under the product Sixt Chauffeured Services. As a result different prices, car classes and services were listed on one website.

Structure

mydriver groups their cars into four categories: First class, Business class, Economy class, and Van. [15] The company uses both staff and contracted drivers. [16]

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