About Business
AutoNation is a publicly traded American company, established in 1996 by H. Wayne Huizenga, and based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The company provides car dealerships like rental cars. It has acquired many companies to grow their business such as Snappy Car Rental, National Car Rental etc. This company was the first auto retailer in the U.S, in 2011 that used to sell approximately 8 million vehicles. The company was doing well as a big network of second hand automobile superstores before Republic Industries acquired it in 1997. Republic industries started buying new car dealerships and contracts to the owners who created the division of this company, and then the company started running its retail locations as ?AutoNation.?