myDriver is a chauffeur company that operates in more than 150 cities in 60 countries.[2][3] mydriver is a subsidiary company from Sixt Rent A Car and is part of the new Business Unit Sixt Chauffeured Services.[4][5]

myDriver
Native name
Sixt Chauffeur Reservation Systems GmbH & Co. KG
Company typeChauffeur
IndustryChauffeur Service
Founded2012
FounderAlexander Sixt
HeadquartersHausvogteiplatz 2, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland, ,
Germany
Area served
Germany Paris Antibes Belfort Bordeaux Cannes Lille Lyon Marseilles Menton Nice Saint-Tropez Strasbourg Toulouse Rome MilanTurin Venice Florence Pisa Verona Vienna Innsbruck Salzburg Graz Linz Brussels Antwerp Ghent Leuven Prague Paris Monaco Amsterdam Rotterdam The Hague Bucharest Bratislava Barcelona Madrid Bilbao Valencia Majorca Málaga Ankara Istanbul London Birmingham Manchester Liverpool Leeds Copenhagen Stockholm Adana Luxembourg San Sebastian Antalya Bucharest
Key people
Konrad Thoma (CEO) , Johannes Boeinghoff (Managing Director)
Number of employees
100 (2016)[1]
Websitehttps://www.mydriver.com

History

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mydriver was founded in 2013 in Berlin, Germany by Carl Schuster, Andreas Goschler and Oliver Mickler under the company Sixt.[6][7] It started at the beginning of the year in Munich, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne, Leipzig, Bremen, Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Dresden.

In 2014 mydriver expanded to other parts of Germany, Paris, and Vienna.[8] In the end of 2015 mydriver formally launched in France, Austria and the Netherlands[9][10] The company began offering services in 2016 to Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Monaco, Romania, Czech Republic, Turkey, and the United States.[11][12][13][14]

In 2017 mydriver, the Sixt Chauffeur Service and Sixt rides joined to operate under the product Sixt Chauffeured Services. As a result different prices, car classes and services were listed on one website.[citation needed]

Structure

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mydriver groups their cars into four categories: First class, Business class, Economy class, and Van.[15] The company uses both staff and contracted drivers.[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Türkiye'deki şoförlü araç rekabetine 'Sixt' de girdi!". Radikal. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  2. ^ "myDriver Cities". www.mydriver.com. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  3. ^ "Sixt renews and expands Thomas Cook partnership". Breaking Travel News. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  4. ^ "Sixt steuert mit Car-Sharing auf die Gewinnzone zu". www.die-glocke.de. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  5. ^ "myDriver". Sixt Ventures. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  6. ^ "MyDriver". Gründerszene. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  7. ^ "In diesem Berliner Büro plant MyDriver seine Expansion". Gründerszene Magazin. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  8. ^ "myDriver startet internationale Expansion - Startup Valley". Startup Valley (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  9. ^ "myDriver – Der neue Chauffeurservice in Paris". Touristen in Paris. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  10. ^ Holzer, Nicole (18 February 2016). "Sixt: My Driver wird international". FIRMENAUTO. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  11. ^ "Nuevo servicio de alta calidad con chófer". ABC (in European Spanish). 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  12. ^ "Sixt's Transportation Service Launches in Chicago - News - Auto Rental News". www.autorentalnews.com. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  13. ^ Lobby, Motor (8 March 2016). "Nuevas soluciones de movilidad para la ciudad". esdiario.es. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  14. ^ "Türkiye'de hızla genişleyen 'şoförle araç kiralama' rekabetine şubat ayından itibaren Alman firması Sixt de 'mydriver' de dâhil olacak". Abhaz Haber. 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  15. ^ "Fahrservice in Berlin: Mit Chauffeur zur Currywurst - Berlin - Tagesspiegel". Der Tagesspiegel Online. 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  16. ^ News.de-Redaktion. "Verkehr: Sixt-Fahrdienst My Driver sieht große Marktchancen". News.de. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
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