Weekly round up of fleet stories from the
UK and Europe including appointments at Arval Italy and Volvo’s
business team, guidance from the BVRLA and Brake and a pair of
corporate deals from Alfa Romeo.
BVRLA’s New Year’s code
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The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing
Association (BVRLA) is set to release a new code of conduct for
lenders in January.
The code will urge members of the BVRLA to
make clear and concise information available to customers, in line
with guidance from the Office of Fair Trading.
Particularly, the code will state that brokers
must declare their commission if asked. If, however, they are not
asked, they do not have to declare their commission.
Chové general manager at Arval
Italy
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By GlobalDataArval, corporate leasing subsidiary of BNP
Paribas, has appointed Grégoire Chové as general manager of its
Italian business.
Chové has been at Arval throughout his career,
spending more than ten years setting up and developing the
company’s International Business Office and Arval Sales, and most
recently working as general manager of the international business
line for small businesses.
Chové replaces Paolo Ghinolfi as head of Arval
Italy, which has attained 25% market share since opening in
1995.
Brake urges senior fleet
engagement
Brake, the road safety charity, has published
new guidance, The business case for fleet safety, putting
forward the financial, reputational and legal case for board
members and company directors to support and invest in fleet safety
initiatives.
In a statement regarding the launch, Brake
took the opportunity to remind fleet managers of the charity’s
one-day Pledge course which aim to provide fleet managers with the
tools to communicate road safety initiatives to drivers.
The guidance and course are available at no
additional cost to subscribers of Brake’s Fleet Safety Forum.
Volvo appoints four new
ADMs
Volvo Car UK appointed four new account
development managers (ADM) with a mix of internal promotions and
external recruitment.
Laura Dorsett joined Volvo in 1994 and has
dealt extensively with transactions between Volvo and its dealers
in her position as dealer payments manager in the finance team. She
replaces Kay Saunders, who has moved on to become campaigns manager
of business sales for the South East.
Jane Kelly will this month switch from her
post as a senior customer relations consultant to become ADM for
the Midlands, replacing Gavin Moolman who will join the strategic
projects team.
Jeanette Griggs joined Volvo following 11
years as a senior area manager for sales and aftersales at Renault.
She is the new ADM for the North East, replacing Ian Reger who has
moved to provide maternity cover as special vehicles manager.
Alison Newman joined the company as Home
Counties ADM from Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions, where she was
corporate accounts manager. She replaces David Chesterman, who
becomes a dealer performance manager for London and the South
East.
Alfa offer among faltering fleet
share
Alfa Romeo, part of Fiat Group Automobiles,
has announced a pair of finance deals on the MiTo and Giulietta
models for business customers in the UK.
Prices for the MiTo start at £169 a month and
for the Giulietta at £199 a month, in both cases the diesel engine
models.
Figures from the Society of Motor
Manufacturers and Traders yesterday pointed to heavy losses in new
car registrations for the brand, a drop in share of the overall UK
registrations for fleet and business, and a drop in the acquisition
of diesel engines compared to petrol.
Alfa Romeo new car registrations were down
37.53% year-on-year in September, to 1,227 units, and down 35.50%
year-to-date to 6,115 units.
The fleet share of the car parc fell from
47.1% in September 2011 to 45.0% in 2012 while the business share
fell from 6.2% of registrations to 5.7%. Year-to-date, the fleet
share of UK registrations stood at 49.6% and business at 4.5%, down
from 51.7% and 5.3%, respectively, for the same period last
year.
The diesel share of registrations for
September was 48.5%, down on the average so far for the year of
50.4%.
richard.brown@vrlfinancialnews.com
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