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100k and counting…
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100k and counting…

  • by Contributor
  • 18 December 2013

Lex Autolease will grow by 100,000 vehicles in the next five years, and it will do it in some pretty innovative ways, its new managing director Tim Porter reckons. Porter has only

Band of Brothers
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Band of Brothers

  • by Contributor
  • 18 November 2013

Fleet size: 200 vehicles What’s the history of Gratte Brothers? From small beginnings as an electrical contractor, started by two brothers in the post war years, Gratte Brothers has now become one

Mercedes finds its feet in fleet
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Mercedes finds its feet in fleet

  • by Contributor
  • 14 November 2013

Where is Mercedes-Benz in the UK today? We are the “new luxury” brand, with Audi and BMW as premium. We have grown by 34% through the recession. It was worth working hard

Weathering the storm
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Weathering the storm

  • by Contributor
  • 8 November 2013

What you’ve learnt in your 20+ years in fleet In March this year I celebrated 25 years at Hitachi Capital. When I started out we had just 175 cars and there were

A hard habit to break
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A hard habit to break

  • by Contributor
  • 11 October 2013

It’s probably 20 years ago that a colleague passed the comment that someone was leaving the company and she wondered if he would take his pot plants with him. Rather naively, I

Used LCV market overview, October 2013
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Used LCV market overview, October 2013

  • by Katie Beck
  • 27 September 2013

‘September finished as predicted: with stock in short supply and prices rising, leading to the trade being more frustrated with the market than I’ve seen in a long time. To complicate matters