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January
2016.
BMW has the Best Company Car Programme for SMEs

BMW has the Best Company Car Programme for SMEs

  • BMW Business Partnership voted SME Best Company Car Programme

  • Independent SME Company Car of the Year Awards run by Business Car Manager

  • Supported by Fleet Alliance, an award winning supplier of company car leasing to SMEs

BMW continues its reign with the Best SME Company Car Programme Award for 2016 at the Business Car Manager SME Company Car of the Year Awards.

Supported by Fleet Alliance, an award-winning supplier of company car leasing to SMEs, The SME Company Car of the Year identifies the best cars, and the best company car programmes available for the SME business sector.

Winner for the last two-years, the BMW's Business Partnership programme continues to provide the best support for the SME sector. Rather than sitting on its laurels after its previous two wins, work on improving the Business Partnership Programme began early in 2015, when BMW and MINI Business objectives were introduced to the retailer network to further focus their corporate operation.

To support the objectives, 500 SME and Business demonstrators were added to support the retail network's existing vehicles. On top of this, a dedicated corporate production of vehicles was also introduced to improve lead times, consistency and enhance their customer's needs. It is this level of detail, led from specialised local business development managers, that has kept the BMW Business Partnership programme at the forefront of serving the needs of SME company car buyers.

Ralph Morton, the website's editorial director, added: "It's critical that small businesses and SME firms running company cars get the expert help that they require. These Awards highlight the best cars as well as company car and support programmes to make life easier for the SME director charged with looking after the company car programme."

The SME Company Car of the Year Awards were judged by an independent panel of experts:

  • Paul Hollick, commercial director of The Miles Consultancy (TMC), and chairman of the Institute of Car Fleet Management (ICFM) - chair of the judges.

  • Martin Brown, managing director, Fleet Alliance

  • Steve Cocks, director broker division, Lex Autolease

  • Andy Brown, managing director, CD Auction Group

  • Colin Tourick, Grant Thornton professor of automotive management, University of Buckingham

  • Jonathan Burn, deputy news editor, Auto Express

  • Jim McNally, head of asset risk, Alphabet

  • Robert Wastell, divisional managing director, Hitachi Capital Car Solutions

Business Car Manager provides authoritative company car advice and information for SMEs with over 500,000 annual unique visitors to the business motoring information portal.

Full details of the Business Car Manager SME Company Car of the Year Awards 2016 can be found at: http://www.businesscarmanager.co.uk/category/cars-reviews/best-company-cars/sme-company-car-of-the-year-awards-2016/.

Contact:

Ralph Morton, editor

07970 165 328