Apr 12, 2018   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

National Car Rental Earns Top Customer Experience Ratings for Rental Cars, According to Temkin Group

National Car Rental Earns Top Customer Experience Ratings for Rental Cars, According to Temkin Group

Eighth Annual Temkin Experience Ratings Evaluates 318 Companies Across 20 Industries

WABAN, Mass., April 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- National Car Rental delivers the best customer experience in the rental cars and transport industry, according to the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual customer experience benchmark of companies based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers.

Out of the 12 rental car and transport companies included in this year's Ratings, National Car Rental earned the highest score with a rating of 72%, putting it in 109(th) place overall out of 318 companies across 20 industries. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, ACE Rent A Car, and Advantage Rent-A-Car tied for second place. Each received a score of 69% and ranked 149(th )overall.

Overall, the rental cars and transport industry averaged a 65% rating in the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings and tied for 15(th) place out of 20 industries. The average rating of the industry remains unchanged from 2017.

The ratings of all rental cars and transport companies in the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings are as follows:

    --  National Car Rental: 72%
    --  Enterprise Rent-A-Car: 69%
    --  ACE Rent A Car: 69%
    --  Advantage Rent-A-Car: 69%
    --  Hertz: 68%
    --  Uber: 66%
    --  Lyft: 66%
    --  Avis: 64%
    --  Budget: 62%
    --  Alamo Rent A Car: 62%
    --  Fox Rent A Car: 59%
    --  Dollar: 51%

"No rental car company has distinguished itself as a CX leader, and the overall industry provides just mediocre customer experience," states Bruce Temkin, managing partner of Temkin Group.

Avis' customer experience score improved the most over the previous year, gaining 10 percentage-points. Fox Rent A Car's score, on the other hand, declined the most, dropping by 13 points.

Now in its eighth year of publication, the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings is the most comprehensive benchmark of customer experience in the industry, evaluating 318 companies across 20 industries: airlines, auto dealers, banks, computer & tablet makers, credit card issuers, fast food chains, health plans, hotels & rooms, insurance carriers, investment firms, parcel delivery services, rental cars & transport, retailers, software firms, streaming media, supermarket chains, TV & appliance makers, TV/Internet service providers, utilities, and wireless carriers.

To generate these ratings, Temkin Group asked 10,000 U.S. consumers to evaluate their recent experiences with a company across three dimensions: success (can you do what you want to do?), effort (how easy is it to work with the company?), and emotion (how do you feel about the interactions?). Temkin Group then averaged these three scores to produce each company's Temkin Experience Rating.

In these ratings, a score of 70% or above is considered "good," and a score of 80% or above is considered "excellent," while a score below 60% is considered "poor."

The 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings, along with other ratings, can be accessed at the Temkin Ratings website, www.TemkinRatings.com.

The free report, "2018 Temkin Experience Ratings," is available for download at the Customer Experience Matters(®) blog (ExperienceMatters.blog) and at the Temkin Group website, www.TemkinGroup.com.

About Temkin Group: Temkin Group is a leading customer experience research, consulting, and training firm. Many of the world's largest brands rely on its insights and advice to steer their transformational journeys, and Temkin Group accelerates their results by combining customer experience thought leadership with a deep understanding of organizational dynamics. Rather than layering on cosmetic changes, Temkin Group helps companies embed practices within their culture by building up four core competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Employee Engagement, Compelling Brand Values, and Customer Connectedness. The firm's ongoing research identifies leading and emerging best practices for engaging the hearts and minds of customers, employees, and partners. For more information, contact Bruce Temkin at 617-916-2075 or send an email to 193139@email4pr.com.

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