With the entry period for this year’s Business Car Awards now well underway, we thought we’d take the time to acknowledge the sponsors that are backing the event.
Premium Plus sponsor: Fleet Operations
Fleet Operations is the UK’s largest independent fleet and mobility management specialist, offering a broad range of consulting and management services, delivering bespoke solutions to some of the country’s leading blue-chip fleet operators. By providing genuinely impartial advice, alongside innovative fleet management technology, it aims to help businesses make long-term cost savings on their vehicle portfolios, while mitigating risk and helping them meet their sustainability targets. Its MOVE platform and Driver Companion App combine an extensive suite of vehicle and safety management tools, giving grey fleet, company car and van drivers one-stop-shop access – from the palm of their hands – to everything needed to order and run their vehicles. Services include strategic consultancy, sustainability, multi-bid leasing, supply chain management, policy creation and risk management, data consolidation, full or partial outsourcing and vendor management.
Award sponsor: AA
As the UK’s most popular breakdown provider, the AA serves almost ten million business customers, working with around three-fifths of the UK’s top 20 fleets. It aims to offer the right mix of industry-leading services with first-class customer service, demonstrated by once again being named as a Which? Recommended Provider for breakdown cover. The organisation is strongly technology and data-led, while its service for corporate customers is designed to go beyond just keeping drivers on the road. It also helps to minimise wider stress and disruption to fleets and ensure the smoother running of operations through its award-winning services, including Key Assist, Battery Assist, Fuel Assist and EV Support. The AA says it puts its customers first, through core values of care, courtesy, collaboration, dynamism, and expertise, whether that is to ensure their safety, streamline administrative processes, keep them abreast of legislation, or reduce downtime.
Award sponsor: Engineius
Engineius describes itself as the UK’s leading vehicle movement service, and won Best Fleet Service Software Product at the Business Car Awards 2021. The company was founded in 2018 with the belief that it should be as easy to book and manage vehicle movements as it is to buy from Amazon or ride with Uber. The tech-enabled service is designed to allow customers across all automotive sectors to manage their movements with total transparency. Receiving a price for a job takes just 30 seconds and photos, GPS tracking, and timestamps can be monitored live online, providing customers with full visibility over their movements. A network of over 500 fully-trained drivers and transport agents provides comprehensive coverage across the UK. With Engineius, clients gain greater control of their vehicle movements, enabling them to provide a better service to customers, save admin time, reduce emissions, offer in-depth reporting, and cut costs, while it takes full responsibility for the logistics.
Award sponsor: Grosvenor Group
The Grosvenor Group is the UK’s largest privately-owned contract hire and fleet management specialist. Established more than 40 years ago, it also describes itself as one of the largest fleet sector companies to have resisted the temptation to adopt a process-driven, call centre culture – instead offering organisations with vehicle fleets, in both public and private sectors, a level of attention and support that leads to ongoing cost savings and heightened driver mobility. Its overall proposition combines four distinct offerings; Grosvenor Leasing, Interactive Fleet Management, Grosvenor Personal Leasing, and Grosvenor Salary Sacrifice. In addition, it offers the award-winning 0Zone solution, to help companies navigate their way smoothly towards ultra-low emission and electric vehicles. 0Zone has won multiple awards since its launch five years ago, and has helped companies such as Whistl, Weetabix, Tata Steel, and Glenmorangie Whisky reduce their emissions by moving to ULEVs and EVs.
Award sponsor: Ogilvie Fleet
Ogilvie Fleet describes itself as the UK’s leading independent leasing company, keeping organisations on the road up and down the country for more than 40 years. It provides a range of award-winning services, from contract hire and salary sacrifice, to fully outsourced fleet management that helps customers manage efficient fleets of all sizes. Its experts work with businesses to run fleets that are fit for purpose, cost-effective and bespoke to their needs. From offices in Stirling and Sheffield, it is able to service the whole of the UK via relationships with manufacturers, dealers and service partners. It says its employees are at the heart of everything it does, reinforced by Investors in People Gold status and two-star accreditation from Best Companies. As part of the Ogilvie Group, a family-owned business for almost 70 years, it prides itself on honesty and integrity, with a long list of awards for customer service and technology over the past 10 years.
This year’s Business Car Awards ceremony will take place on 19 September at the Hilton Bankside in London.
Entries are currently being sought for the following categories, with the deadline for submissions 5 July.
Entry forms and more information about the event are available at https://awards-bc.businesscar.co.uk
Entries should be submitted to awards@businesscar.co.uk
Supplier awards
Best leasing company (under 25,000 vehicles)
Best leasing company (over 25,000 vehicles)
Best rental company
Best customer service
Best eco initiative
Best innovation
Best remarketing
Risk management award
Best fleet software
Best fleet management software
Best fleet management company
Best telematics product
Wellbeing award
(NEW) Innovation in EV
Manufacturer awards
Most improved manufacturer of the year
Fleet manufacturer of the year
Headline awards
Fleet manager of the year
Fleet supplier of the year
