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The company, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car will have its headquarters and up to 700 jobs from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Tulsa.

The estimated 700 jobs have a direct annual payroll of $ 38.5 million.

The announcement on Thursday was Gov. Brad Henry, William Lobeck, President and CEO of Vanguard Car Rental, and Tulsa Mayor Bill Lafortune.

Economists estimate another 590 additional indirect jobs in the community to start to the new company is located.

This announcement is particularly significant because National and Alamo are world headquarters operations, which are senior-level professional employees, said Henry.

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With competition for this type of business, so fierce, our ability to make such a firm is very important for our economy, he said. We intend, even harder to make Oklahoma the first choice for the relocation of other out-of-state headquarters.

Lobeck, said the company after its offices to Tulsa over the coming months. The move is expected by the end of this year. The new Tulsa location will not be disclosed until lease negotiations for the building have been completed.

We have very serious consideration to locating in various states, Oklahoma and have clearly demonstrated what is necessary to be competitive with everybody, so Lobeck. We have on the cost of doing business, cost of facilities, quality of workforce, education, work ethic and a number of other criteria and Oklahoma came to the forefront.

He said the company plans to hire up to 700 new employees in Tulsa into such positions as accounting, advertising, claims handling, legal, marketing, sales, and other management and administrative positions.

Tulsa is home to Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, a major competitor of the National and Alamo.

Henry says that, with other global companies in Tulsa brings more business people from around the world to the state. We will take this opportunity to further put Oklahoma's wonderful assets to these world travelers who might never come here otherwise, and that is an advantage that can not be measured, he said.

The governor said that the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, Tulsa and leader of the Tulsa Metro Chamber as a team in the recruitment of society.

Lobeck owns homes in Fort Lauderdale and Tulsa, and his wife, Kathy Taylor, Oklahoma secretary of commerce.

The move is welcome in Tulsa, which has lost more than 20,000 jobs in the last two years and a 12-month stretch in that span, lost jobs faster than anywhere but in San Jose, Calif. redundancies come into large employers Williams Cos ., Worldcom and American Airlines.

Also Citgo Petroleum, the nation's fourth-largest gasoline retailer and a major oil refinery, is given for its 1,000 - employee Tulsa headquarters to Houston.

Vanguard, which sells auto insurance, bought Alamo and National from ANC Rental in October.

The National and Alamo brands in more than 3,200 locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Australia. Kept private, the company has a combined fleet of 217,000 vehicles and employs 14,000 people worldwide.

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