09.10.2009 10:55 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
BusinessWeek is out with its 2009 ranking of best places to launch a career, and it was tough to find employers that are still doing a lot of hiring. That makes Enterprise Rent-A-Car, which had filled 3,950 entry-level positions this…

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01.29.2009 4:14 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Enterprise Rent-A-Car spokesman Pat Farrell called me this afternoon to say that his company, and his industry, is not looking for a government bailout. He was responding, of course, to this post, which relied on a Wall Street Journal story.
The Journal, Farrell…

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01.29.2009 1:42 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Update: See this followup post for more information.
The rental-car industry may be next in line for a federal bailout, the Wall Street Journal reports today. Enterprise, Hertz and their competitors want help financing their new-car purchases, and they apparently…

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07.03.2008 8:36 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Clayton-based Enterprise Rent-A-Car earns a positive mention in a Wall Street Journal story about profit warnings at two rivals, Avis and Dollar Thrifty. Those two companies are suffering from a decline in air travel, but Enterprise relies mostly on neighborhood locations, not…

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11.12.2007 3:31 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Strong, growing private companies are an important part of the St. Louis economy. To get an idea how important they are, take a look at Forbes’ new list of America’s top private companies. It contains nine St. Louis names, one fewer than…

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11.29.2006 3:07 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Forbes magazine’s new list of the biggest private companies contains 10 St. Louis firms, which is two more entries than the area has on the Fortune 500 list of large public companies.
Forbes notes that this year’s list was swollen by transactions that put…

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