All articles by Antonio Fabrizio
Antonio Fabrizio
Hitachi Capital to provide 41 specialist vehicles
Hitachi Capital Commercial Vehicle Services has won a deal with Connaught Environmental to provide 41 specialist vehicles worth over £2m (2.4m) in total. Connaught Environmental, part of Connaught plc, which operates in the UK social housing and public sector markets, will use the vehicles to carry out work with local authority street cleaning depots in Wandsworth, Mendip, Norwich and the Isle of Wight. Hitachi Capital will provide the funding for the new specialist fleet, which includes road sweepers, cage tippers of various sizes, 7.5-tonne refuse collection vehicles, gully emptiers to clean gutters and a timber recycler.
Arcus Engineering chooses Volkswagen and Lex Autolease
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has won a £1.7m van deal with Arcus Engineering, which operates the refrigeration maintenance contract in the South East for Sainsburys supermarkets. Wendy Williamson, commercial sales manager at Volkswagen LCV dealer Abridge Van Centre in Loughton, Essex, commented: We continually work hard on providing a high level of customer service and developing our links with local businesses and we believe this acquisition is evidence of that.
Law firms target collections sector
Wright Hassall joins growing list of law firms engaged in collections
UniCredit Leasing to support SMEs with new EIB loan
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided UniCredit Leasing with four loans totalling 360m to support small and medium-sized businesses via leasing schemes
UniCredit dives into renewables
UniCredit Leasings know-how of renewable energy finance has been centralised in a competence centre launched in Vienna last year
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Work-Life Quiz – Peter Savage
Career: MD at Fineline Media Finance (from 1988 to 2004); MD at County Asset Leasing (1986-1988); prior to that, Savage spent two years in the mobile phone sector, working for Carphone Warehouse Group.
Brussels watch: Vehicle lessors win major competition battle
Europes vehicle leasing companies will continue to see their end-user status in relation to manufacturers protected under the latest Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulations (MVBER).
Fiat’s leasing arms strengthen
With Fiats captive arm FGA Capital having taken over the financing business of Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge in Europe, another piece has been added to the puzzle of the leasing activities of Italys largest vehicle manufacturer. The latest move part of Fiats sales network reorganisation and integration project after teaming up with the US carmaker ramps up the vehicle manufacturers leasing activities, which now encompass all brands and types of vehicles in the Fiat Group.
Azule Finance signs deal with Editworks
Media and broadcast finance specialist Azule has been chosen by post production house Editworks to finance two new SR decks for its Glasgow and London operations. Editworks technical director Roger Cumner said: Azule provided us with a highly competitive quote within a matter of days, which enabled the rapid upscale of our business, to help us retain existing customers and accommodate new ones. He added that Azules strong understanding of the media and broadcast industry makes them uniquely qualified to advise us on our highly niche leasing requirements.
CHP Consulting selected by ‘major Nordic bank’
CHP Consultings ALFA v5 solution has just been selected by a major Nordic bank, the lease software specialist has announced. This is the first new implementation of ALFA v5 at a major lender in the Nordic countries, following the release of the latest version of the software last year CHP Consulting said that its flagship solution was chosen as the group-wide software platform of the client organisation, supporting a portfolio comprising 130,000 agreements with a total asset value of more than SEK30bn (3.2bn).