MILTON Keynes-based Volvo dealer Pilling Motor Group has won a contract worth more than £250,000 to supply local company, Merchants Group, experts in communications centres and business growth, with eight S40 TD SEs and seven V40 TD SEs.

Pilling general manager Will Landon said: 'The two things that won us the business with Merchants were the strong Volvo image and the wholelife costs of the vehicles.' The cars, which will be run in a pool system, will each clock up around 22,000 miles a year and account for 95% of Merchants' fleet.