Redspot Car Rentals

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Redspot Car Rentals
Type Private Ownership
Industry Car rental
Founded1989
FounderDan Mekler
Headquarters Mascot, Sydney, Australia
Parent Redspot Head Office Pty Ltd
Website www.redspot.com.au
Redspot counter in Gold Coast, Australia Redspot counter goldcoast.JPG
Redspot counter in Gold Coast, Australia

Redspot Car Rentals is a rental car company with its head office in Sydney, Australia. Redspot was founded by Dan Mekler in 1989. [1] It has grown from one Sydney location to cover most locations in Australia and New Zealand. [2] Redspot renamed its brand name in 2012 after becoming partners with Sixt rent a car in 2012 to Redspot Sixt. [3] Redspot & Sixt rent a car pushes outbound and inbound business to each other. Today Redspot has locations throughout Australia and New Zealand. [4]

In 2000, Redspot Car Rentals acquired Australian Rent A Car and took possession and gave it presence in Queensland and Victoria. [5]

In 2012 Redspot formed a strategic alliance with Sixt Rent A Car Germany, as its Australian car rental supplier. A rebranding exercise began in mid-2012 to a joint name cooperation of Redspot Sixt. In March 2015 Redspot joined forces with Enterprise Holdings as its franchise partner in Australia and New Zealand as part of its Asia Pacific Growth Strategy, ending its partnership with Sixt and starting its Enterprise Rent-A-Car Australia brand. [6] In June 2016 Redspot launched its Enterprise Rent-A-Car [7] [8] operations in New Zealand.

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