Europcar South Africa reservations Europcar South Africa is part of a global network and operates a fleet peaking at over 16 000 vehicles in over 120 locations across five Southern African countries, namely South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. Travellers may book all Europcar car rentals in South Africa via www.europcar.co.za.
Bloemfontein Airport |
Tel: 051 433 3511 |
Cape Town Airport |
Tel: 021 935 8700 |
Durban Airport |
Tel: 031 469 1229/0066 |
East London Airport |
Tel: 043 736 2230 |
George Airport |
Tel: 044 876 9017/9174 |
Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport |
Tel: 011 390 3909 |
Kruger Mpumalanga Airport |
Tel: 013 750 2871/2 |
Pietermaritzburg Airport |
Tel: 033 386 2077 |
Polokwane Airport |
Tel: 015 288 0097/0308 |
Port Elizabeth Airport |
Tel: 041 581 4214 |
Richards Bay Airport |
Tel: 035 786 0896 |
Umtata Airport |
Tel: 047 536 0632 |
Windhoek Airport |
Tel: 00264 62 540 040/1 |
Note that these are only the airport branches, for example in Cape Town Europcar has an office in the city centre. For full list of branches in the cities, see Europcar Johannesburg and Europcar Durban.
The graph provides an indication of the web traffic which Europcar's South African site is receiving:
1 Jun 2009 |
Imperial Car Rental changes its name to Europcar SA. |
20 Jun 2008 |
Europcar International receives a certificate from the Bureau Veritas Certification for its "Green Charter". The certification confirms Europcar's commitment to sustainable development. |
28 Apr 2008 |
Europcar International announces that it has agreed to purchase its Europcar Asia-Pacific franchise (which includes businesses in New Zealand and Australia). Navis Capital Partners is the seller. This will for the first time give Europcar direct access to busineses operating outside Europe (maybe they'll need to change their name!) |
Apr 2008 |
Europcar announces plans to roll out a carbon offsetting scheme in 2008. The scheme will be voluntary, but Europcar expects some 5% of its clients to opt in. |
Apr 2008 |
Europcar has opened the largest car rental location in Europe, close to Heathrow’s Terminal 5. Covering 1.4 hectares and with a 4,500 vehicles, it supports customers looking for Alamo Rent a Car, Guy Salmon Prestige Rental and National Car Rental (i.e. all the Europcar UK Group brands). |
Mar 2008 |
The fleets of Europcar and National Car Rental have been combined in the United Kingdom, creating the biggest fleet of any car rental group in the UK. |
Feb 2008 |
The Europcar United Kingdom Group announces plans to provide information to customers on the carbon dioxide emissions of its rental cars. |
2007 |
Imperial Car Rental and Europcar merge. |
2006 |
Europcar buys the European operations of Alamo Rent a car and National car rental. |
1 Jun 2006 |
Volkswagen sells Europcar to Eurazeo, a French investment organisation. |
1999 |
Dawn Nathan Jones is appointed Europcar CEO. |
1999 |
Volkswagen purchases the Accor Group's stake in Europcar. |
1998 |
Europcar purchases British Car and Van Rental. |
1996 |
Europcar South Africa is launched. |
1992 |
The Accor Group purchases the Wagon-Lits Group, in the process becoming a 50% owner of Europcar. |
1988 |
The Wagon-Lits Group purchases Europcar, which in turn sells half its stake to Volkswagen. |
1981 |
Europcar purchases Godfrey Davids, the largest car hire company in Britain. |
1981 |
Europcar International is formed, acting as a holding company for international franchises of the Europcar brand. |
1974 |
Europcar expands into Britain, Italy, Portugal and Spain. |
1973 |
Europcar expands into Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. |
1970 |
Renault purchases L'Abbonement Automobile from the Mattei Group. |
1949 |
L'Abbonement Automobile is founded in Paris as part of the Mattei Group, with the idea being to provide vehicles for rental without chauffeurs. |
On 2 June 2009 a rebranding event was held at a hangar at Lanseria Airport Johannesburg, in which Imperial Car Rental officially changed to Europcar SA. One of 3 Europcar branded Kulula planes was revealed (Europcar SA has a relationship with Comair).
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