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History
- 1983 – Leasedrive contract hire business
established
- 1988 – VELO contract hire business established by
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
- 1990 – Leasedrive rental operations started
- 1991 – Leasedrive’s Microsoft major corporate
account signed
- 1993 – Countrywide brand established
- 1999 – Leasedrive Holdings UK incorporated
- 2003 – New senior management team at the helm at
Leasedrive, following
BIMBO transaction in May. Leasedrive Group established
- 2003 – Management buy-out at VELO in same month
- 2003 – New Leasedrive fleet management division
established
- 2004 – Drive:Manager, a new bespoke online total
vehicle management service,
launched. The multi-million pound development combines
the three best industry-leading software applications – CHP
ALFA, epyx 1Link and Business Objects – into one fully-integrated
solution. Drive:Manager incorporates Fleet:Manager – online
quotes and orders, vehicle comparator and order tracking;
Admin:Manager – driver services, infringement management,
service reviews and document import; Service:Manager – dealer
locator and service booking; Info:Manager – business
intelligence (‘push and pull’ reporting); Rental:Manager – daily
rental reservations and amendments; RunOut:Manager – fleet
information for managing the run-off of an existing fleet
with a third party supplier
- 2004 – Leasedrive Group moves all divisions under
one roof into new hi-tech
modern headquarters at TRL, reinforcing the group’s
automotive pedigree
- 2005 – Leasedrive Group wins the wins Microsoft
Vendor Programme UK
Excellence Award 2005 Recognition for Excellence in Technology
- 2006 – Leasedrive Group becomes Scope’s first
Diversity Works Associate Partner
- 2006 – Leasedrive Group wins the prestigious ‘Best
Contract Hire/Fleet
Management Company’ Award in the 2006 Fleet News Awards, ‘Leasing/Rental
Company of the Year’ in the 2006 GreenFleet Awards
and ‘Business Management Team’ in the 2006
Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards
- 2007 – Leasedrive Velo formed following the merger
of the Leasedrive
Group and VELO on 2 January 2007. The group is one of
the largest independent privately-owned vehicle management
groups
in the UK offering the highest quality bespoke total
fleet management service to blue chip clients
- 2007 - Leasedrive Velo wins the Independent Vehicle Management Company 07/08’ Institute of Transport Management (ITM) Award
- 2007 – Commercial director, Roddy Graham wins the second annual Fleet News ‘Leasing Personality of the Year’ Award
- 2007 – Leasedrive VELO makes millionth rental booking
- 2007 – Leasedrive VELO wins, for the second year running, the ‘Business
Management Team’ in the 2007 Thames Valley Business Magazine
Awards
- 2008 – Leasedrive Velo wins the Institute of Transport Management (ITM) 'Fleet
Management Company 08/09' award
- 2008 - Leasedrive Velo Group formed following senior management buy-out in deal valued at £80m.
- 2009 – Leasedrive Velo Group wins Best Rental System category in the
BusinessCar Techies 2009 Awards
- 2009- Leasedrive Velo Group wins the ‘Innovation in Services and Systems’
Energy Saving Trust Fleet Hero 2009 Award
- 2010 – Leasedrive Velo makes its first appearance in the latest The Sunday Times Deloitte
Buyout Track 100
- 2010 – Leasedrive Velo Group wins second Best Rental System category in the BusinessCar
Techies 2010 Awards
- 2010 – Leasedrive Velo Group appointed by Investec in December to manage,
operate and integrate the latter’s acquisition of the UK contract hire business of Masterlease UK
- 2011 – ‘Leasedrive Velo wins Management Team of the Year’ Award in the 2011 Thames
Valley and Solent Deal Awards
- 2011 – Leasedrive Velo makes its first appearance in the latest The Sunday Times PwC
Profit Track 100
- 2011 – Leasedrive Velo Group renamed the Leasedrive Group and re-brands
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