The joint "green" initiative of Hertz and Starwood Hotels & Resorts

The joint "green" initiative of Hertz and Starwood Hotels & Resorts

The world's largest car rental agency Hertz Corporation and one of the leading hotel operators Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., which owns such famous brands as St. Regis ®, The Luxury Collection ®, Sheraton ®, Westin ®, Four Points ® by Sheraton, Le Méridien ® and others, announced the launch of a joint environmental initiative in the framework of Global EV, developed by the mentioned agency.

In the framework of the initiative Hertz company in North America will provide for all-electric or hybrid cars with charging from the grid for the use by the guests of the hotels belonging to Element Hotels, Aloft Hotels and Four Points by Sheraton Hotels. The company also intends to establish an appropriate infrastructure for recharging the rental cars.

Senior vice president of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Brian McGuinness commented on it: "This partnership is a perfect complement of Starwood environmental initiatives ... New technologies that with using of the Hertz EV program will be available for our guests demonstrate our shared commitment to make operation of electric vehicles practical. Moreover, what is important, it makes all us think about the importance of using clean energy. "

Hertz Global EV is the leading program for promotion of all-electric and hybrid vehicles, including infrastructure development facilitating the use of transport. Moreover, a unit of Hertz Global EV intends to become the world's first car rental company offering a wide range of "green" cars across the globe.

New initiative is aimed at different groups of consumers - both private and corporate. Currently, Hertz is developing strategic partnership programs with carmakers, energy companies, municipalities, hotel chains and other interested organizations.

The Hertz Corporation is the world's largest agency, which rental offices are based mostly in international airports. It has more than 8.500 offices in 146 countries around the world. The corporation also owns a network of Advantage rental stations that are present in 26 airports of the U.S. and the world club of carpooling Connect by Hertz, which operates in New York, Berlin, London, Madrid and Paris. In addition, Hertz has one of the largest worldwide networks of equipment rental Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation, which has 325 offices in the U.S., Canada, China, France, Spain and Italy.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading global operators of hotel chains, which owns more than 1.000 hotels and other recreational facilities in 100 countries. Corporation owns such world famous brands as St. Regis ®, The Luxury Collection ®, Sheraton ®, Westin ®, Four Points ® by Sheraton, W ®, Le Méridien ®, and recently founded brands Aloft ® and Element (SM). Starwood Hotels & Resorts corporation shows the commitment to the protection of the environment and consistently implements environmental and energy saving technologies.

Date: 11/12/2010