FLEETLEASE has won a sole supply deal to provide more than 60 vehicles to Dorchester-based pub retail company and wine merchant Eldridge Pope. The contract - which Fleetlease won after a three-way tender process - consists of full service contract hire including disposal and acquisition, maintenance and direct driver contact.

Employees are entitled to a wide choice of vehicles under the new arrangements, which replace a fleet policy described as 'ad hoc'. Eldridge Pope retail financial accountant Kevin Joy said: 'Our existing policy needed streamlining and more structure. Fleetlease proposed a very comprehensive but flexible solution - we're very pleased with the results.'