Monday, December 21, 2009

Masterlease Reports Fuel Management a Boardroom Issue

Global car fleets accept apparent their ammunition bills acceleration by as abundant as a third in the endure year according to analysis by all-embracing leasing aggregation Masterlease.

With car manufacturers' connected improvements in ammunition ability now accepting ashore by ascent ammunition prices, all-around businesses accept to face the absoluteness of accretion costs to their fleet management.

While boilerplate agent prices accept soared by a third in the endure year, the adventure is not absolutely as austere for unleaded petrol - although globally it has still added on boilerplate by 18% back 2007.

Despite the all-embracing access in ammunition prices, the latest analysis by Masterlease shows some absorbing differences amid the countries. The a lot of big-ticket countries to acquirement ammunition from are the UK, Norway and Sweden, although the amount increases over the endure year accept not been as affecting as in others.

At the added end of the spectrum, Australia charcoal the cheapest abode to acquirement ammunition - although over the endure twelve months the amount of agent has added by 33%. However, the country that has endured the better amount backpack is Austria, with agent prices ascent a amazing 42%.

Masterlease agitated out the analysis in all 17 countries in which it operates to get a accurate account of how abundant ammunition is absolutely costing all-around customers. The analysis was conducted in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

As able-bodied as the all-around amount hikes on fuel, one agency that has a big appulse on all-around agile ammunition bills is the accouterment of chargeless clandestine ammunition to aggregation car drivers. In nine out of the 17 countries, this is a burdened benefit, while in 5 of the countries surveyed (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Australia), chargeless clandestine ammunition is not taxed.

Nowhere is this added aboveboard than in Australia, area as one of the accomplished emitters of carbon in the world, accidental on boilerplate 27.54 tonnes to the atmosphere every year per person, abounding businesses are analytic at measures to atone by advance in academic carbon offsetting activities.

Nick Brownrigg, CEO of Masterlease Group, commented: "While the ammunition affair may not be decidedly new, the about amount of ammunition has been the better contempo talking point in agile administration and it would appear top, or abutting to the top, with every agile accommodation maker, wherever they are in the world. As a result, the continuing animation in ammunition prices has emphasised the accent to the agile industry of able ammunition administration and accessibility of advice to advice ascendancy costs at every stage.

"It is important for all-around businesses to accept absolutely how abundant they are spending on ammunition above all of their country operations, so that they can attending for amount extenuative opportunities.

Once there is an compassionate about the absolute ammunition bill, businesses should again argue an absolute able to admonish them on how to abate these costs. There are astronomic allowances to businesses that can authenticate ability in agreement of affair these challenges. It artlessly agency added able altitude of MPG, ammunition and agile costs, and to accomplish this, businesses charge to accomplish fuel management a boardroom issue."

About Masterlease Group
Masterlease is one of the fastest growing allotment and vehicle agile management companies in Europe, alms business to business all makes abounding account car leasing.

With 15 operations in Europe and affairs to aggrandize into added countries, its able geographic attendance and connected branding enables Masterlease to action a adamant account above the Continent. The aggregation manages about 210,000 vehicles.

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