Carrentals.co.uk Expands Welsh Office with New Management Appointment

CEREDIGION (22 October 2007) – One of the UK’s leading price comparison websites, Carrentals.co.uk, is expanding its Welsh office with the appointment of Andy Mayer as Project Manager.

Based at the Carrentals.co.uk Ceredigion office, Andy will be responsible for managing a team of seven web developers, customer service staff and system analysts while overseeing a range of national marketing projects to support the company’s continued expansion.

Andy joins Carrentals from Coleg Ceredigion in Cardigan, West Wales where he worked for seven years as an Accounting Technician, and will now work alongside Carrentals.co.uk Marketing Director Gareth Robinson.

Commenting on his new role, Andy said: “Carrentals has excelled in establishing itself as a market leader in the online sector and the potential for further growth is huge. It is an exciting time to be joining the company and I am looking forward to the challenges that working in such a successful and fast moving web based environment will bring.”

Carrentals.co.uk compares car hire prices from over 45 different companies, including Opodo, Holiday Autos, ebookers and their own Carrentals.co.uk prices, in a single site.

Since its launch in 2003 Carrentals.co.uk has grown to become one of the leading online car hire websites. In 2006 it booked its 100,000th customer and turnover reached £8million. For more information visit www.carrentals.co.uk.
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About Carrentals.co.uk
Carrentals.co.uk was launched in February 2003 and grew to become one of the UK’s leading online car hire companies by 2006, when it also booked its 100,000th customer.

In 2007 the company re-launched its site to create the first major online price comparator in the travel industry. Using the latest technology the new Carrentals.co.uk site now searches over 40 different car hire websites, providing an impartial comparison of the best prices available.

Websites searched include Budget, Sixt, Holiday Autos, Opodo, ebookers, Carrentals.co.uk and EasyCar, with the Carrentals.co.uk site quickly comparing prices and allowing customers to refine their search by car type or provider.

The Carrentals.co.uk site also features over 6,000 links to useful tourist information sites, plus over 2,700 pages of travel information in a mini-guide format.

To book or for further information visit www.carrentals.co.uk

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