THERE are an astonishing number of SMEs operating in the UK. At the last count – the beginning of 2019 is the most current information we have – there were 5.9 million Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) operating in the UK. According to the government’s statistics, most are micro businesses – those companies with fewer than nine employees – but an important…
Select Car Leasing is best for keyword search Carwow leads the lease deal aggregator sites Vanarama best for keyword search in light commercials Audi has most search visibility from the OEMS Ford dominates commercial vehicle search Electric and ULEV the rising search terms A REPORT on keyword search in the leasing sector has revealed that Reading broker, Select Car Leasing, currently dominates…
AS we prepare to park 2020 behind its COVID-19 face mask, it’s worth reflecting on some of the major trends in the leasing broker sector. Many of the changes were accelerated by the impact of coronavirus – in similar fashion to the way coronavirus accelerated trends already evident in society as a whole – such as the focus on improved digitisation, and…
HYBRIDS have had something of a reprieve lately: hybrids were originally believed to be part of the on-sale cull of petrol and diesel vehicles brought forward to 2030. However, the recent government 10 Point Plan to decarbonise the UK still bans petrol and diesel cars from that date, but hybrid vehicles will be allowed to continue until 2035. Admittedly there is still…
CASH: I’m not sure the last time I actually used ‘physical money’ since the pandemic started in March, preferring contactless card transactions delivered digitally and securely, rather than notes touched by humans. But cash still has a role to play in company car provision, whether that’s a company car, salary sacrifice car or a cash alternative. Provision of a car remains an…
TYPE into your search engine of choice – OK, Google then – and enter salary sacrifice cars. At the latest count there were 13.4m entries about salary sacrifice. Following the benefit in kind changes in April 2020, salary sacrifice has become widely talked about as a way for drivers to go green by driving electric cars or plug-in hybrids, and for companies…
Chief executive of Agility Group, Keith Townsend, explains to editor Ralph Morton how the company’s recent MBO will help Agility Fleet take a more progressive approach to the funding market AT the beginning of September, managing director Keith Townsend, along with operations director and long term partner Jacki Stevenson, completed a management buyout (MBO) of the business they had been running: Agility…
THE changes made by HMRC to company car benefit in kind (BIK) tax from April this year effectively ruled out most ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars for business cars. Not all, that’s true. But most have become increasingly uncompetitive on BIK tax. The focus on clean air, particularly in urban areas, and the government’s urgency to bring forward the banning of all…