Comments on: Zipcar Extends Option to Buy Up Majority of Avancar http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/zipcar-extends-option-to-buy-up-majority-of-avancar/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:33:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Katie Fehrenbacher http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/zipcar-extends-option-to-buy-up-majority-of-avancar/#comment-568188 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:01:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=282640#comment-568188 @Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, Send more info on that.

]]> By: Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/zipcar-extends-option-to-buy-up-majority-of-avancar/#comment-567973 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:59:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=282640#comment-567973 It seems that Zipcar and the Cicar company have already reached an agreement on the trademark issue…

]]> By: Katie Fehrenbacher http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/zipcar-extends-option-to-buy-up-majority-of-avancar/#comment-566961 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:15:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=282640#comment-566961 @Kevin McLaughlin, interesting info, thanks.

]]> By: Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/zipcar-extends-option-to-buy-up-majority-of-avancar/#comment-566680 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:16:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=282640#comment-566680 are there any carsharing operators having remarkable succes growing organically outside their own country?? the carsharing business is such a local business!!

The Cicar thing is incredible…

]]> By: Kevin McLaughlin http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/zipcar-extends-option-to-buy-up-majority-of-avancar/#comment-566338 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:31:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=282640#comment-566338 I would agree – Zipcar can’t pull the trigger until they can pay with (liquid) shares, not cash. They have been unable to grow organically outside of the USA (in any meaningful way), so theirs will be growth-through-acquisition. BUT it is also interesting to note that they have been unable to establish a class 39 trademark in Spain (due to a local company, Cicar, having a similar sounding name in Spanish). http://www.marques.org/class46/Default.asp?D_A=20080625#435

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