Enterprise Holdings and its affiliate Enterprise Fleet Management delivered record results in fiscal year 2016.

For the 12-month period ended July 31, the company generated $20.9 billion in revenue. That was an 8.1-percent increase over FY 2015, according to a news release.

As privately held companies, they do not disclose net income.

Enterprise Holdings and Enterprise Fleet Management together own nearly 1.9 million vehicles and more than 9,600 fully staffed locations dozens of countries, making Enterprise the world’s largest car-rental company as measured by revenue, fleet and employees.

“We not only are seeing consistent and significant growth in U.S airport market share, but also across our business lines and in local neighborhoods,” said Pamela Nicholson, president and chief executive officer at Enterprise Holdings Inc., which owns the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands. 

“Consider that our customers are logging more than 25 billion miles throughout the world every year. And many of those miles are driven locally in their very own communities, mostly in late-model, fuel-efficient vehicles,” Nicholson added. “That means our business offers some of the most effective and sustainable options in the ground transportation sector today — and we will continue to do so, even as infrastructure and technology, including autonomous vehicles, evolve in the future.”

Enterprise, National and Alamo brands operate in more than 85 countries and territories on five continents.

“We at Enterprise Holdings are proud of our leadership role in the car rental, travel and automotive industries,” Nicholson said. “Every single day, Enterprise, National and Alamo employees put customers first — regardless of whether the rental is across town or halfway around the world.”

During FY2016, Enterprise Holdings added multiple franchise locations, including Belize, Ecuador, Jamaica, Jordan, Honduras, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tortola, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay.

Family owned and operated

Enterprise was founded in 1957 by Jack C. Taylor. Taylor passed away during FY16, but his children remain in senior management positions. His son, Andrew, is executive chairman of Enterprise Holdings, while his daughter, Jo Ann Taylor Kindle, is president of the Enterprise Holdings Foundation.

Two of Jack Taylor’s granddaughters also serve key roles: Christine Taylor as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Enterprise Holdings, and Carolyn Kindle Betz as vice president and executive director of the Enterprise Holdings Foundation.

One of Taylor family’s goals is to carry on the company’s commitment to community-focused philanthropy.

To that end, the Enterprise Holdings Foundation provided $27.3 million in grant funding to charitable causes during FY16. Eighty-nine percent of the grant requests the foundation fulfilled came from employees to help community causes that are of personal importance to them. Large-scale donations in 2016 included support for the American Red Cross Annual Disaster Giving Program and the Canadian Red Cross Fort McMurray, Alberta, disaster relief efforts.

Enterprise Holdings recently published its FY2016 Sustainability Update, highlighting key initiatives such as responsible product lifestyle and growth of urban mobility programs.

“We are seeing more and more questions about sustainability issues and metrics as part of the formal RFP process,” said Nicholson. “That is because major corporate accounts with defined sustainability goals — including Enterprise Holdings — are evaluating and measuring their respective supply chains to a much greater degree than ever before.”

Enterprise Holdings is the only company in the international car rental industry — and one of a handful in the global travel industry — to complete its sustainability reports and updates in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 “Core” Guidelines. This annual documentation articulates goals and provides transparency as well as accountability for Enterprise Holdings and its key stakeholders.