Today’s piece focuses on important quotes I picked up from the conference calls (or read in some cases) over the last week or so. . . 

Quote #1: Hertz centralization of purchasing 

“To capture and increase our spend visibility Hertz will announce shortly the implementation of a global spend management program.  This will enable us to transition all procurement activity to an automated centralized system.  We are currently piloting the use of various purchasing cards.  These should be rolled out globally by the end of 2007. 

This will he ...

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