More than one-third of 1, 600 multinational firms surveyed by Hewitt now offer a company car.
Kay plays a supermarket worker forced to spend his commute with a colleague as part of a company car-share scheme.
Lately, the phenomenon has spread to the UK where changes to company car taxation have fuelled demand for executive diesels.
No element of the pay package--salary, stocks, options, loans, company car, subsidized housing and all other perks and indulgences--should be omitted.
They told me to clean out my desk and turn in my credit card and the keys to my company car.
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"She complained about everything: The company car wasn't big enough, the bonuses weren't good enough, " says Mr. Blake, a Seattle-based entrepreneur and author.
If you do the latter, you can, in good conscience, stretch out and relax (and maybe count the Caddy as a company car).
The company car fuel benefit charge threshold is changing slightly.
It's the ultimate company car, for company men and women.
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They might be happy to have a free company car.
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But with costs under pressure in most companies, the most able and enlightened professionals aren't just looking at the number on the paycheck or the model of company car.
Cost-conscious and obsessive, Ebbers was known to count vehicles in the company car park at night-time to see who was working late and who had gone home, according to Reuters news agency.
For instance, some company might offer a shared car for free in return for a multiyear contract to have that company operate the car an analogue to what mobile phone operators do now when they subsidize the purchase of phones.
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Faber has worked on intellectual property issues for the likes of International Rectifier, a semiconductor company, and Hertz rental car company.
In an example provided by the car company, a driver whose car gets a new rating of 36 mpg instead of the original rating of 37 mpg would get reimbursed for 7.5 gallons of gasoline after driving 10, 000 miles.
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Urban motorists, particularly company-car drivers commuting to work in busy city centres, pay too little, relative to the burden they place on crowded roads.
However, the branding lesson for this top-notch company, or any other luxury car company, for that matter is that it cannot rest on its laurels.
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For decades it was the most famous French car company, having become Europe's first mass car producer in 1919.
Sprint has also partnered with ECOtality, an electric car charging company, to connect its electric car chargers throughout the country.
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Over the past five years, sales at Lear Corp, which is based near Detroit, have grown fivefold, transforming the firm from a manufacturer of car seats into a company that produces entire car interiors.
Group Lotus - part of Malaysia's Proton car company - is sponsoring the Renault team this season and the Russian sports car manufacturer Marussia has bought into Virgin.
Ford, the only Detroit automaker to get through the financial crisis without a bailout, reported its August sales, which grew 11%, as the company begins a partnership with car-sharing company ZipCar and braces itself for a labor struggle with the United Auto Workers (UAW).
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The entity came about in 2010 when Mahindra bought Reva, a small electric-car company that over a decade sold less than 5, 000 models of its tiny electric car, the REVAi.
The company is planning to merge with US automaker Chrysler, forming the world's third largest car company.
The Narrow Car Company - The Abercynon firm's metre-wide, tandem, two-seater NARO car has the dynamics of a motorbike in a bid to change urban transport.
Faber has worked on intellectual property issues for the likes of International Rectifier (nyse: IRF - news - people ), a semiconductor company, and Hertz (nyse: HTZ - news - people ) rental car company.
As fans prepare for the Chase for the Sprint Cup this September, Utah-based NASCAR Car Wash Company will be opening the first-ever NASCAR branded car wash.
Five more locations will open as a result of an agreement between NASCAR Car Wash Company and Spotless Express and Sparkles, which already owns car washes in the Chicago area.
By Tuesday evening, Manhattan percolated with car company parties, dinners, and full-fledged product reveals.
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