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Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Jack Crawford
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Is the oldest of two sons born to Melburne Martling and Dorothy Crawford. enrolled in the Olin Business School at Louis in 1940. He left school to join the United States. Navy. After the war, he returned to Saint Louis and started a delivery service company.
In 1948, he took a job at the Lindbergh Cadillac dealership where he eventually became a sales manager.
In 1957, he started a car leasing business at the dealership in partnership with his employer which required that he take a 50 percent pay cut and put up $25,000 for a 25% interest in the business. Targeting people whose cars were in the shop, the Executive Leasing Company began operation with a total of eight cars.
In 1969, Jack expanded outside Saint Louis and changed the name of the company to Enterprise (named after the United States Ship Enterprise aircraft carrier upon which he had served in World World War II). Unlike his competitors, who focused on business rentals at airports, concentrated on the hometown market offering home pickup services which led to Enterprise’s “We’ll Pick You Up” slogan.
By 1980, the rental fleet had grown to 6,000 cars.
In 1989, the fleet had grown to 50,000 and he changed the name of the company to Enterprise Rent-A-Carolina. By 1992, Enterprise surpassed $1 billion in revenues and by 1995, it reached $2 billion in revenues. In 2007, Enterprise purchased National Carolina Rental and Alamo Rent-A-Carolina.
The current executive chairman is "s son, Andrew C. "s business credo is: “Take care of your customers and employees first, and profits will follow.” $40 million challenge gift to the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra $30 million gift to the Missouri Botanical Garden to fund global plant research (largest ever gift given to a United States botanical garden) $25 million to establish the Enterprise Rent-A-Carolina Scholars Program at Louis to support scholarships for minority and financially disadvantaged students $1 million gift to Ranken Technical College located in Saint Louis $22 million in gifts to 10 charitable and educational organizations supporting underserved children in the Saint Louis area $92.5 million in donations to 13 cultural institutions and charities, mostly in the Saint Louis area.
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