- Winners of the Spotlight Award on the last night were Gateway2Lease: Rob Marshall (far left) and Matt Axford (far right) receive the trophy from Jo Fletcher and Chris Swallow of Novuna Vehicle Solutions
NOVUNA Vehicle Solutions unveiled its leasing broker winners at the Novuna Partner Conference held over three days last week at Rushton Hall Spa & Hotel (19-21 November 2024)
Winners were announced each night and prizes presented to the winning brokers.
There were five awards presented each evening. The awards and winners were:
Excellence Award
- Quality, strong admin, compliance, duplications, underwriting, BVRLA audit
- Winners were: Key2lease, Central Contracts and Nationwide Vehicle Contracts
Peoples Choice Award
- In house, team vote
- Winners were: UK Carline, Lease4less, and Contract Cars
Loyalty Award
- Best partner, piloted a scheme, repeated business, consistent volume
- Winners were: Fleet Alliance, XLCR, and Autorama
Recognition Award
- New broker, most improved volume, tactical, customer service
- Winners were: VIP Gateway, First Vehicle Leasing, and Leasing Options
Spotlight Award
- Innovation, systems, website, product development
- Winners were: the LCV Group, Vehicle Consulting, and Gateway2Lease
In the morning business session, Chris Swallow, Novuna’s National Sales Manager – Associates (pictured above), detailed how Novuna’s fleet had doubled since 2018 with its number six placing in the FN50. But out of the top six funders, Novuna had the best Trustpilot rating, an area that the company took seriously through a continuous improvement programme.
Also announced was the introduction of minibus leasing, an update on underwriting and its brand new quoting portal called Quote Pro, which has been built by Codeweavers.
“I know this has been a long time coming,” said Chris, “but we shall be debuting the system next month while running the old system alongside it, before full migration occurs.”
A presentation by Sally Wildsmith, Tactical Campaign Manager, reported on the success of the Cupra Formentor tactical with 800 units sold in three months. Sally said there would be an increase in the number of tacticals the funder would be doing next year.
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Ralph Morton is the leading journalist in the leasing broker sector and editor of Broker News, the website which provides information and news for BVRLA-registered leasing brokers. He also writes extensively on the fleet and leasing market in both the UK and Europe.
