{"id":6544,"date":"2014-08-15T13:15:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2014-08-15T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T13:15:01","slug":"sold-2-practical-car-and-van-rental-changes-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6544","title":{"rendered":"Sold #2: Practical Car and Van Rental changes hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practical Car and Van Rental has been sold, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscar.co.uk\/news\/2014\/practical-car-and-van-rental-sold\" target=\"_blank\">a report<\/a>\u00a0on the Business Car website.<\/p>\n<p>The website reported that Practical, which has 136 UK hire outlets and a total of 3,000 vehicles, has been purchased by a\u00a0UK firm called Tudor Holdings, which also owns\u00a0a Kent and Sussex-based firm called Kent Auto Panels, a car dealership group.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is the second sales of a\u00a0large independent\u00a0vehicle hire group to be announced this\u00a0week &#8212; on Wednesday, I reported\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6528\">sale of Burnt Tree Commercial Vehicle Rental to Enterprise<\/a>, a deal that will create a combined fleet of more than 25,000 commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, the amounts paid for the acquisitions have not been disclosed, as both deals were between two privately-held companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical Car and Van Rental has been sold to a UK investment firm that also owns a car dealership group, according to a report on the Business Car website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1678,1431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}