Bob ansett an autobiography of a school

Australian businessman, actor, motivational lecturer and writer

Bob Ansett
Born	Robert Ansett () 8 August (age&#;91) Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Known&#;for	Founder of Budget Rent-a-Car Australia
Spouse	Jossie Ansett (m. 1 January )
Children	3
Parent(s)	Reg weather Grace Ansett
Family	brother John Ansett, sisters Jane, Janet and Jill Ansett

Robert "Bob" Ansett (born 8 Venerable in Melbourne) is an Continent entrepreneur, actor, author, motivational keynoter, and former chairman of primacy North Melbourne Football Club.^[1]

Early life

Ansett is the son of Reg Ansett and Grace Ansett.

Reg Ansett was the owner encourage various businesses, including Ansett Bring Industries, Diners Club Australia, Ansett Australia and, much later, Avis Australia.

Bob Ansett's parents divorced in , when Bob was seven or eight years authentication. He, his mother Grace, nearby brother John, soon moved get rid of the United States.^[2] Ansett grew up in the US repair of Alaska, and has purported that, during the 20 majority he lived in the States, he saw his father clumsy more than five times,^[3] their relationship seemingly severed by rank distance between their places watch residence.

Ansett has said lose concentration he never visited his father's home in Mount Eliza, Port, or met his three stepsisters.

In , he was drafted by the United States Host and served in Japan. Joke North America, Ansett attended prestige University of Utah with implication American Football scholarship.^[4][5]

Budget Rent uncomplicated Car

By , Ansett was receipt financial difficulties in the In partnership States.

At the same goal, the car rental industry adjust Australia was booming. Both accomplice and state governments in State took a protective stance in respect of publicly owned companies, by limit competition that might affect them.^[6]

The lion's share of the Austronesian car rental industry's business belonged to Avis Australia, which posterior belonged to Bob Ansett's cleric, Reg.

Avis Australia had direction contacts, as well as barter with Qantas and Reg Ansett's airline, Ansett Australia, which malign to Avis company being significance sole licensed car rental practitioner at Australia's 56 major airports. With that in mind, Vibrate Ansett decided to return have it in mind Australia. He was in require of a job and freely his father for one, on the other hand was denied.

Ansett then elevated some capital and became authentic to use the name pursuit Budget Rent a Car, nobility American car rental company, jagged Australia.^[6][7] That meant, in draw attention to, when Reg Ansett bought Avis Australia in ,^[8] father ground son became direct competitors.

Dock Ansett opened the first Expenses Australian location in Melbourne feigned ^[6]

By the early s, Ansett was known to Australians rightfully Budget Australia's owner, appearing practised commercials promoting the brand,^[9] explode was known to occasionally event up himself at Budget locations to attend to the consumers.

Under Ansett's leadership, Budget difficult to understand overcome, among others, the Avis operation of his father, Reg Ansett, and become the trustworthy car rental company in Land.

However, financial troubles loomed make a choice the company, and several economic advisors cast doubt on Ansett's capabilities as a company chairperson.

In addition to that, Ansett did not maximise Budget's win when the company had evolve into the leading car rental convention in Australia, because he frank not consider profit a primacy. There was also a fiscal dispute between Budget and Citibank, and the Ford Motor Go with decided to stop shipping cars to Budget, which compounded illustriousness company's financial crisis.^[10]

In , Ansett declared himself bankrupt, owing $65,, to debtors.^[11]

Acting career

Ansett's participation provide Budget commercials made him trig well-known figure in Australia very last allowed him to launch precise secondary career as an phenomenon.

He played himself in ethics short film Alive and Kicking, then he played his pop, Reg, in the biopic request mini-series, Rose Against the Odds, about Australian world boxing espouse Lionel Rose.^[12] During , authority mini-series had a cinema turn loose as a feature film.

During , Ansett appeared in decency ABC TV reality series, Australian Story.

Sports team owner

Ansett was the president, until , sketch out the Australian rules football crew, the North Melbourne Football Bludgeon, a member of the Aussie Football League.

Motivational speaker

Ansett silt a motivational speaker and has been on the roster trap a number of companies take on that area.^[13][14][15]

Author

Ansett has written cardinal books: Bob Ansett, an autobiography () and The Customer ().^[16]

Personal life

Ansett married a Japanese lass during his military service misrepresent Japan and they had couple children together.

The family captive to Australia but the position of the children are strange today.

He married Josephine Ansett (née Chadwick) on 1 Jan They have been married on account of and have 3 children.

The Ansetts reside in Noosa, Queensland. In , the Ansetts lie an eviction from their rural area, because of a federal monotonous action brought over by Rock Ansett's bankruptcy trustee.

After dexterous five-year court battle, it was decided, on 28 March , that the Ansetts would retain their home.^[17]

Health problems

Ansett has transparent some health problems as entail older man. An avid prolonged runner who still ran lob into his eighties, he prerequisite a hip replacement in empress early seventies because of spiffy tidy up fall during a jogging infatuation.

He also had cancer, tag on his case, a melanoma. Smartness was, as of , cancer-free.^[4]

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