{"id":28293,"date":"2026-03-18T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=28293"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:06:27","slug":"carwiz-enters-heavy-uk-travel-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/carwiz-enters-heavy-uk-travel-market\/","title":{"rendered":"CARWIZ Enters Heavy U.K. Travel Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Urentacar Global, a leading car rental service provider based in the United Kingdom, and the Croatian rent-a-car franchise system, CARWIZ International, rolling out their brands across the United Kingdom, following the signing of a franchise partnership agreement, the companies announced April 14.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was signed by Kre\u0161imir Dobrilovi\u0107, founder and CEO of CARWIZ International, and Sadan Khan, CEO of Urentacar Global. The first location will open near London\u2019s Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This game-changing partnership, supported by an expansive national network and high-level industry connections, sets the stage for rapid and significant growth in the UK market,\u201d said Khan in a news release. He brings over 20 years of expertise in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>In promoting the opening of another large and promising market, Dobrilovi\u0107 also revealed for the first time that during the 2024 business year, CARWIZ completed a total of 211,675 rental agreements \u2014 a growth of over 52% compared to the previous year, with more than 126.1 million miles driven.<\/p>\n<p>He further highlighted the company\u2019s financial performance, which shows a 39% system-wide revenue increase and a 78% profit growth compared to the 2023 business year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urentacar Global, a leading car rental service provider based in the United Kingdom, and the Croatian rent-a-car franchise system, CARWIZ International, rolling out their brands across the United Kingdom, following the signing of a franchise partnership agreement, the companies announced April 14. The agreement was signed by Kre\u0161imir Dobrilovi\u0107, founder and CEO of CARWIZ International, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":28294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-automotive-franchises","category-carwiz"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/carwiz-uk-market.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28296,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293\/revisions\/28296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}