Alamo and Enterprise Lead Rental Cars in Customer Experience

March 19, 2015 1 Comment

We recently released the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 293 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers.

Here are some highlights from the rental car industry:

  • Although down from its peak of 61% in 2012, rental car agencies saw a slight increase in their average experience ratings, from 59.3% in 2014 to 60.0% in 2015.
  • Alamo claimed the top spot and continued its upward trend. It increased by eight percentage-points between the 2013 and 2014 TxR, and by another nine points between the 2014 and 2015 TxR. Enterprise earned the second spot with a Rating of 67%.
  • For its first year on the Ratings, Fox Rent A Car took the bottom spot with a rating of 42%, placing 292nd out of the 293 companies we evaluated.
  • Rental car companies made up three of the bottom twenty companies: Fox Rent A Car (42%), Dollar (47%), and Thrifty (50%). Overall, scores in this industry ranged from “very poor” to just “okay.” And the industry tied for 15th place out of 20 industries with an average rating of 60%.
  • Rental car agencies also increased their average rating in both the success and the effort component. Their success average increased from 62% to 63% and their effort average increased for 63% to 64%. The industry’s emotion average stayed steady at 53%.
  • Alamo, Enterprise, and National were the only companies to score above the industry averages in all three TxR component categories. Alamo recorded the highest scores for success with 74% (11 points above the industry average) and emotion with 61% (eight points above the industry average), while Enterprise scored highest for effort with 72% (eight points above the industry average).

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About Bruce Temkin, CCXP
I'm an experience (XM) management catalyst; helping organizations improve results by engaging the hearts and minds of their employees, customers, and partners. I enjoy researching and speaking about these topics. I lead the Qualtrics XM Institute, which is the world's best job. We're igniting a global community of XM Professionals who are inspired and empowered to radically improve the human experience. To achieve this goal, my team focuses on thought leadership, training, and community building. My work is driven by a set of fundamental beliefs: 1) Everything starts and ends with human beings, so you need to understand how people think, feel, and behave; 2) XM is a discipline that needs to be woven throughout an organization's entire operating fabric; and 3) Building the XM discipline requires a combination of culture, competency, and technology.

One Response to Alamo and Enterprise Lead Rental Cars in Customer Experience

  1. Andrew McFarland says:
    March 19, 2015 at 8:56 am

    These results are not surprising. Good to see, but not surprising. Afterall, these companies have been at the forefront of innovative uses of social media to connect with customers. (I had occasion to write about one such interaction a few years ago in a post titled: Integrating Social Media into a Customer Experience Strategy http://bit.ly/W8EMyq)

    Thanks for publishing the results!

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