ANALYSIS: TOP 50 LEASING COMPANIES

The top 50 leasing companies and their on-risk size of fleet (the number of cars for which the lease firm carries the RV risk)

Company Change 2012 2011 Boss Parent company Contact from ’11 ▼ 1. ▲ 268,240 280,218 Rick Francis Lloyds 0800 389 3690 www.lexautolease.co.uk ▼ 2. Leaseplan ▲ 134,115 130,200 David Brennan Leaseplan Corporation 0844 493 5810 www.leaseplan.co.uk 3. Alphabet ▲ 3 109,236 50,396 Richard Schooling BMW AG 0870 505 0100 www.alphabet.co.uk 4. Arval ▼ 1 85,612 86,932 Bart Beckers BNP Paribas 01793 887000 www.arval.co.uk ▼ 5. ALD ▲ 80,331 63,561 Keith Allen Societe Generale 0870 001 1181 www.aldautomotive.co.uk 6. Group ▲ 1 59,936 49,437 Graham Wheeler Volkswagen Financial 0870 333 2229 Leasing Services www.volkswagengroupleasing.co.uk 7. Arnold Clark ▲ 4 49,483 42,019* Hugh Wallace 01413 322626 www.acvm.co.uk 8. GE Capital ▲ 2 43,685 43,495 John Jenkins GE (General Electric) 0870 444 9020 www.gecapital.co.uk/fleet 9. BT Fleet ▲ 5 32,150 33,083 David Bowen BT Group 0800 032 0012 www.btfleet.com 10. Hitachi Capital ▲ 3 28,889 34,065 Robert Wastell Hitachi Ltd 0844 463 2900 www.hitachicapitalvehiclesolutions.co.uk 11. Inchcape ▲ 4 24,249 22,455 Steve Archer 0870 191 4444 Fleet Solutions www.ifs.inchcape.co.uk 12. Citroen ▲ 4 23,448 22,392 Duncan Chumley Banque PSA Finance 0845 013 0761 Contract Motoring www.citroen-contract-motoring.co.uk 13. Leasedrive Group ▼ 1 22,806 35,100 David Bird Leasedrive Group 01344 466 466 www.leasedrive.com 14. Zenith ▲ 3 22,620 22,000 Tim Buchan Accelerate Acquisitions 0844 848 8091 www.zenith.co.uk 15. ▲3 19,000 21,164 Nigel Ward Banque PSA Finance 02476 884 000 Contract Hire www.peugeot-contract-hire.co.uk 16. Carillion ▲ 3 13,741* 13,406* Gil Kelly Carillion 0870 1292 999 Fleet Management www.carillionplc.com/fleet 17. Pendragon Contracts ▲ 4 12,405 12,764* Neal Francis 01332 292777 www.pendragon-contracts.co.uk 18. Toomey ▲ 2 10,600 12,900 Paul Plant Laindon Holdings 01332 205828 www.toomeylease.com 19. Ogilvie ▲ 3 10,350 10,000 Gordon Stephen Ogilvie Group 01786 816055 www.ogilvie-fleet.co.uk 20. Venson ▲4 9914 9442 Samantha Roff Premier Fleet Management 08444 99 1402 Automotive Solutions and Contract Hire www.venson.com 21. Days ▲2 9624 9487 Graham Day CEM Day 0845 815 0019 Contract Hire www.dayscontracthire.co.uk 22. Grosvenor ▲ 3 8556 8992 Shaun Barritt Grosvenor Contracts Leasing 01536 536536 Contracts www.grosvenor-contracts.co.uk 23. Tusker ▲ 3 8036 6706 David Hosking Smedvig Capital 0871 9955500 www.tuskerdirect.com 24. BMW ▲ 7 6444 5621 Ian Smith BMW AG 01256 747 000 Financial Services www.bmwfs.co.uk 25. ▲ 5 6316 5800 Doug Gillies Toyota Motor Corporation 01737 363633 Financial Services www.toyota.co.uk

terms of volume, but the outlook for Arval’s managing director, Bart 2012. They are tasked with an impact on the corporate market 2013 is more consolidation among Beckers, remains cautious about delivering an effective vehicle fleet with inevitable moratoriums on new leasing companies and a trading the year to come, claiming that at the same time as driving car orders for many – or contract environment dominated by fears about leasing firms will need to be flexible operational efficiency.” extensions – and redundancies, the Eurozone, as Schooling suggests: with their methods of business in ALD, which has enjoyed what it restructuring, company disposals, etc “Looking to the market as a whole, we order to stay afloat: “Managing describes as “a good year”, is for others. expect to see further consolidation, vehicle fleets in a volatile market optimistic about the future and “However, I feel that we are past especially among some of the medium- environment with further regulation intends to be level-pegging with the worst of the recession and size players where affordable liquidity changes to come will stretch the Alphabet with a parc the right side of confidence is returning, albeit is still a challenge. The economic business model for operational 100,000 within two years. Managing slowly,” he concludes. decisions made by European leasing providers, and the companies director Keith Allen comments: governments over the coming months that respond effectively to this will “Business confidence has been Key: are likely to trickle down and impact remain at the fore. shaken badly in the last four years ▲ * Estimated N▼/A Not available Up Down ▼ the fleet management sector and the “Businesses of all sizes have come and it will take time for this to be ▲ eventual fallout could be significant.” under increasing cost pressure in restored. This will undoubtedly have No Movement NE New Entry

30 16 October 2012 www.businesscar.co.uk ANALYSIS: TOP 50 LEASING COMPANIES

The top 50 leasing companies and their on-risk size of fleet (the number of cars for which the lease firm carries the RV risk)

Company Change 2012 2011 Boss Parent company Contact from ’11 26. JCT600 ▲ 2 6180 5975 Andrew Mann JCT600 0113 250 0060 www.jct600contracts.co.uk 27. Fleet Hire ▲ 2 6065 5800 Graham Hale Fleet Hire Holdings 0844 85 45 100 www.fleethire.co.uk 28. Marshall Leasing ▲ 4 5716 5570 Peter Cakebread Marshall of Cambridge 01480 414541 www.marshall-leasing.co.uk 29. TCH Leasing ▲ 5 5524* 5390* Mark Hammond TC Harrison Group 0845 408 2000 www.tchleasing.co.uk 30. Fleet Financial ▲ 10 3855 2930* Damian Hughes Charles Hurst Group 028 9084 9777 www.fleetfinancial.co.uk 31. Finance ▲ 4 3850* 3797 Steve Gowler RCI Banque SA 0871 987 0091 www.renaultfinanceuk.co.uk 32. = Motiva ▲ 4 3837* 3763* Peter Davenport Motiva Group 0800 054 6555 Vehicle Contracts www.motivagroup.co.uk 32. = Apex ▲ 3 3837* 3763* Roland Standley Apex 01323 745444 Easy Fleet www.apexrental.co.uk 34. Agnew Corporate NE 3587* N/A Yuile Magee Sytner 028 9038 6600 www.agnewcorporate.com 35. MNH Platinum ▲ 3 3515* 3430 Mark Hindle MNH 01254 244144 www.mnhplatinum.co.uk 36. Sandicliffe ▲ 3 3332 3100 Gary Benfield Sandicliffe Motor Holdings 01159 466466 Motor Contracts www.sandicliffemotorcontracts.co.uk 37. OVL NE 2797 N/A Martin Wedge OVL Group 01491 615500 www.ovl.co.uk 38. DFC NE 2790* N/A Uel Butler Management-owned 028 9073 4222 www.dfcbelfast.co.uk 39. Leasing ▲ 6 2605 2127 Andrew Collett Lookers Plc 01423 853000 www.lookersleasing.co.uk 40. May Gurney ▲ 1 2677* 2612 Paul Woods Senturion Group 01522 503400 www.maygurney.co.uk 41. FGA ▼ 8 2587 5400 Martin Thomas FGA Capital SPA 01753 519252 Capital UK www.fgacontracts.com 42. Fulton Leasing ▲ 7 2283 1126 Tano Di Girolamo Fulton Network 0118 983 8020 www.fultonleasing.co.uk 43. Sinclair ▼ 1 2410* 2352* Kerry Thomas Sinclair Group 0845 1246 952 Finance and Leasing www.sinclair-fl.co.uk 44. SG Fleet ▲ 2 2065 2023 David Fernandes Super Group 01228 564455 www.sgfleet.com 45. Hilton NE 1673 N/A Morgan Devereux Management-owned 01279 757060 Vehicle Leasing www.hiltonvehicleleasing.co.uk 46. Autohorn NE 1600 N/A Lee Underwood Management-owned 0844 846 4003 www.autohorn.co.uk ▼ 47. Windsor ▲ 1466* 1430 Ben Newton Windsor Vehicle Leasing 01753 801905 Vehicle Leasing www.wvl.co.uk 48. Concept NE 1245 N/A Paul Bulloch Management-owned 0800 043 2050 Vehicle Leasing www.conceptvehicleleasing.co.uk 49. Prohire NE 1288* N/A David Barlow Management-owned 08432 909 089 www.prohire.plc.uk ▼ 50. ABC ▲ 804* 784* Steve Crake ABC Business Services 0161 447 8812 Vehicle Contracts www.abcvehicles.co.uk

Orders are up but numbers are down at Lex Autolease

Despite the company’s gradual but eventually those ageing fleets whole. This paints a picture of a strategy. Five years since the reduction in numbers, number one will need replacing and we are market that is actually operating credit crunch hit, we are now leasing giant Lex Autolease saw an seeing major signals that this in a sensible fashion – upscaling witnessing that more clients increase in orders and deliveries at behaviour is occurring. Our and downscaling to meet the are beginning to talk our language, the start of the year, as managing orders and deliveries in the first economic conditions of the day. which means leasing companies director Rick Francis explains: half of the year were up 20%, We, along with others in the and fleet operators are now while our total customer fleet size market, have consistently extolled working towards the same “Over the past few years, contract has fallen back marginally – much the virtues of an effective, policy- objectives – irrespective of extensions have become the norm, in line with the fleet sector as a driven, cost controlled, fleet fleet size.” www.businesscar.co.uk 16 October 2012 31