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Many fleet managers are turning to more environmentally sound car fleets in line with new sustainability trends within corporations
Forestry Commission deal for ING Car Lease
Forestry Commission deal for ING Car Lease ING Car Lease has won a deal to provide the Forestry Commission with car leasing services, to a maximum value of £293,000 per year
Fleet finds its carbon footprint is falling
ALD Automotives study into company car emissions is therefore welcome news, as the fleet management and leasing company found that the CO2 output from the company cars it provides has fallen by 40 per cent in four years.
Loan cars for BEN
Loan cars for BEN Motor sector charity BEN has received free loan cars from ALD Automotive and National Car Rental to allow its volunteers to stay on the road for their work Managing director of ALD, Keith Allen said: “Each of BENs welfare officers can travel up to 30,000 miles a year and, as they work alone, often covering large distances, it is particularly important that they have good quality, reliable vehicles
Website explaining PPI launched by law firm
Website explaining PPI launched by law firm The law firm Coffin Mew LLP has launched a website bringing together resources and information on legislation and compliance within the payment protection insurance (PPI) area. The head of Coffin Mews insurance and regulation team, Malcolm Padgett commented: Some companies have seen the resource as specific to their legal and compliance functions, but others are keen to provide the information to all staff concerned with the PPI product, as part of their response to FSAs principles based regulation
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Experian: Data service sign-ups
Experian: Data service sign-ups Information company Experian has seen a record number of 300 UK dealers sign up to use its auto check service since July 2007
Black Horse: New innovations hit market
When in 2006 John Woolley assumed the managing directorship of Black Horse Motor & Leisure Finance (Black Horse) it proved to be at a rather defining time
Cattles: 28 per cent H1 profit growth for non-prime lender
Cattles: 28 per cent H1 profit growth for non-prime lender Cattles, the UK financial service provider to the non-mainstream credit market that also specialises in car finance, appears to have benefited from the chaos of the credit crunch, announcing a pre-tax profit increase of 28 per cent to £60.1m for the six months to June 2007 and the addition of thousands of new customers to its books.
Sticks and stones
Sticks and stones A few weeks ago I was invited to give a presentation to a group of small business men and women I rolled up to the meeting with my Sony Vaio under my arm to be met by the chairman of the meeting who was fiddling with a projector that looked as though its previous owner was probably a cinema
Lookers buys Dutton Forshaw for £60m
Lookers plc is pleased to announce the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Dutton Forshaw Group Limited, the motor retail division of Lloyds TSB Asset Finance Division Ltd for a total consideration of up to £60m, payable in cash on completion