Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (DTG), through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the business of daily rental of vehicles to business and leisure customers through Company-owned stores. The Company leases vehicles to franchisees for use in the daily vehicle rental business, sells vehicle rental franchises worldwide and provides sales and marketing, reservations, data processing systems, insurance and other services to franchisees. It owns DTG Operations, Inc. (DTG Operations), Dollar Rent A Car, Inc. and Thrifty, Inc. The Company has two additional subsidiaries, Rental Car Finance Corp. (RCFC) and Dollar Thrifty Funding Corp., which are special purpose financing entities. During the year ended December 31, 2008, Dollar and Thrifty had 741 locations in the United States and Canada of which 400 were company-owned stores and 341 were locations operated by franchisees.