Fleet News Awards 2021
Click the thumbs up >Winning a Fleet News Award trophy doesn’t come easy, but the effort is worth every moment when the envelope is opened, and your name is read out.
Winners enjoy a measurable improvement in business performance and credibility, while it can also raise staff motivation, studies show.
It can even give a boost to individual careers, with several former Fleet News Awards winners getting promoted or headhunted for more senior positions. Award winners say it has helped them to acquire new talent and improve client relationships.
Shaun Atton described himself as “proud” and “over the moon” after the group fleet manager collected the most improved fleet of the year trophy for Auto Windscreens at last year’s Fleet News Awards. British Gas head of fleet Steve Winter, who collected the fleet of the year gong, said it was “a great reward for our fleet team”.
Click the thumbs up >Fleet and business registrations fell by 32% in 2020, with 400,000 fewer company cars registered compared to 2019, but fleets were behind a massive increase in the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs).
The new figures, published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), show overall demand in the new car market fell to the lowest level since 1992.
They also reveal the continuing decline of diesel, with 55% fewer diesel cars registered in 2020 compared to 2019.
The SMMT sales figures show there were 883,557 cars registered to fleet and business during 2020, compared to almost 1.3 million vehicles the previous year.
However, the latest sales data also reveals that in December, fleet and business registrations were only 9% down compared to December 2019.
Date: 06 January 2021 Â Â |Â Â Author: Sean Keywood
UK new car registrations fell by 29.4% in 2020 as the market was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures.
Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that just 1,631,064 cars were registered during the year. This was the lowest total seen since 1992, and a drop of 680,076 units on the figure from 2019.
It was if anything an even worse year for fleet car registrations, which fell by 31.1%, compared with a 26.6% fall for private registrations.
Business sales, classed as to fleets with fewer than 25 vehicles, were down by 43.3%, taking only 2.1% of the market.