Restructuring

As part of our ongoing effort to implement our strategy of reducing operating costs, we have evaluated our workforce and operations and made adjustments, including headcount reductions and business process reengineering resulting in optimized work flow at rental locations and maintenance facilities as well as streamlined our back-office operations and evaluated potential outsourcing opportunities. When we made adjustments to our workforce and operations, we incurred incremental expenses that delay the benefit of a more efficient workforce and operating structure, but we believe that increased operating efficiency and reduced costs associated with the operation of our business are important to our long-term competitiveness.

During 2007 through 2011, we announced several initiatives to improve our competitiveness and industry leadership through targeted job reductions. These initiatives included, but were not limited to, job reductions at our corporate headquarters and back-office operations in the U.S. and Europe. As part of our re-engineering optimization we outsourced selected functions globally. In addition, we streamlined operations and reduced costs by initiating the closure of targeted car rental locations and equipment rental branches throughout the world. The largest of these closures occurred in 2008 which resulted in closures of approximately 250 off-airport locations and 22 branches in our U.S. equipment rental business. These initiatives impacted approximately 8,960 employees.

During the first, second and third quarters of 2012, we continued to streamline operations and reduce costs with the closure of several car rental and equipment rental locations globally as well as a reduction in our workforce by approximately 65 employees, 280 employees and 240 employees, respectively.

From January 1, 2007 through September 30, 2012, we incurred $557.5 million ($273.5 million for our car rental segment, $229.5 million for our equipment rental segment and $54.5 million of other) of restructuring charges.

Additional efficiency and cost saving initiatives are being developed; however, we presently do not have firm plans or estimates of any related expenses.

Restructuring charges in our consolidated statement of operations can be summarized as follows (in millions of dollars).



	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2012		2011			2012		2011
By Type:
Termination benefits	$	0.3	$	2.4		$	16.5	$	6.8
Pension and post retirement expense	—		—			—		0.3
Consultant costs	0.1		0.3			0.7		0.6
Asset writedowns	—		(0.5		)	2.7		22.8
Facility closure and lease obligation costs	0.9		(0.4		)	6.6		9.6
Relocation costs and temporary labor costs	0.1		0.1			0.1		0.1
Other	0.1		—			0.4		0.2
Total	$	1.5	$	1.9		$	27.0	$	40.4



	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2012			2011		2012		2011
By Caption:
Direct operating	$	3.7		$	0.7	$	18.3	$	35.3
Selling, general and administrative	(2.2		)	1.2		8.7		5.1
Total	$	1.5		$	1.9	$	27.0	$	40.4



	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2012		2011			2012		2011
By Segment:
Car rental	$	0.2	$	2.8		$	17.2	$	7.3
Equipment rental	1.3		(0.9		)	8.1		32.7
Other reconciling items	—		—			1.7		0.4
Total	$	1.5	$	1.9		$	27.0	$	40.4

The following table sets forth the activity affecting the restructuring accrual during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 (in millions of dollars). We expect to pay the remaining restructuring obligations relating to termination benefits over the next twelve months. The remainder of the restructuring accrual relates to future lease obligations which will be paid over the remaining term of the applicable leases.



	Termination Benefits			Pension and Post Retirement Expense		Consultant Costs			Other			Total
Balance as of January 1, 2012	$	9.1		$	0.2	$	0.6		$	11.7		$	21.6
Charges incurred	16.5			—		0.7			9.8			27.0
Cash payments	(14.0		)	—		(0.5		)	(4.0		)	(18.5		)
Other(1)	(0.3		)	—		(0.1		)	(8.9		)	(9.3		)
Balance as of September 30, 2012	$	11.3		$	0.2	$	0.7		$	8.6		$	20.8

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(1)	Primarily consists of decreases of $6.4 million for facility closures and $2.7 million for asset writedowns.