THE online broker/dealer procurement system, Fleet Procure, says that brokers are doing better than ever before as it revealed its Q2 figures. The company said it had seen a 29% increase in orders through the system compared with Q1 2021, registering more than 4500 deals on the platform that offers brokers full visibility on dealer model availability and discounts in real time.…
It’s not the reduced grant that will stop UK going EV… …It’s the lack of supply. While manufacturers have reacted with a degree of pleasing urgency to reduce the list price of vehicles just above £35k to just below the tidemark for grant qualification, there appears to be another issue on the horizon: getting hold of electric cars. Fleet Procure has delved…
ELECTRIC vehicles took a drop in demand following the government change to the Plug-in Car Grant on 18 March 2021. But the change in EV orders – down by 24% – was described as ‘soft’ by Fleet Procure, the broker fleet procurement platform. Utilising the intelligence of its 61 broker database, Fleet Procure said that VW ID.4 sales were ‘fantastic’ pre-grant but…
Don’t ignore the brokers Volvo On a global basis, Volvo would dearly love its customer to form an orderly digital queue to acquire electric Volvos through Volvo channels. It’s a brand dream. And it simply won’t work. Market channels in the UK are too complex for such a simple approach and the broker market not only has digital advantage, it has consumer reach. And it…
THE broker/dealer procurement platform, Fleet Procure, has extended its market reach with the inclusion of two new brokers to its system. Both Kent-based Skyfleet and Hippo Leasing from Blackburn, Lancashire, bring a further 2000 units annually to the procurement platform in agreements that were concluded in February and early March. It now takes the volume of vehicles transacted by Fleet Procure to…
THE leasing software procurement system, FleetProcure, has added a further customer to its growing user base: Essex-based broker, Planet Leasing. The end-to-end procurement platform hit a record 50 broker partners at the end of December 2020, but the attractiveness of the system continues to see FleetProcure, run by Lee Jones and Arron Mogridge, attract greater numbers. Planet Leasing is the latest, the…
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…
THE broker/dealer procurement platform, Fleet Procure, has hit a half century of broker partners. The significant growth for the online platform came in the second half of 2020, said Fleet Procure, with a further boost in December with the signing of 10 new broker partners, five of which were Bridle Group AR franchises and five independent brokers. It is double the projected…