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ALD International has acquired the remaining 75% equity in its Ukranian partner, First Lease. The deal comes a year after ALD took a 25% stake in the company, which has been renamed ALD Automotive Ukraine and operates a fleet of 1,990 vehicles.

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THE number of employees driving for business while uninsured or medically unfit has reached epidemic proportions, way above official statistics.

THE Government is again being urged to announce major changes to mileage reimbursement rates in this month’s Budget.

THE Touring version of Chrysler’s 300C will cost from £27,250 when it goes on sale next month.

CAR dealership group Inchcape has announced pre-tax profits of £177.3 million in the year ending December.

VAUXHALL is planning to trim its volume with daily rental fleets by 25,000 units this year in a bid to build better residual values.

LEX Vehicle Leasing, the UK’s largest leasing company, has announced record results with pre-tax profits up 14% to £52.4 million.

RENAULT has launched a new booking service which enables customers to book vehicle servicing and obtain quotes online.

HYUNDAI has reintroduced the Amica city car to the UK market, as a reaction to surging interest in the sector.

CIVIL engineering contractor McPhillips is installing a tracking system across its fleet in a bid to reduce operating costs.

Nissan has revised prices and specification for its 2006 350Z, along with a subtly restyled front end, new tail lamps and minor interior changes.

SALES volumes for all market sectors are continuing to slide year-on-year, with February predictably slow for new car sales as buyers waited for the new March registration plate.

NEW research suggests that half of female drivers and a third of men in the UK are unable to identify symbols on their car dashboard.

CITROEN is offering fleet customers a special fully-loaded version of the C5 range priced from just £15,095.

AUDI’S new RS4 Avant and Cabriolet versions will cost £51,780 and £59,580 respectively.

ALMOST one-fifth of respondents in a recent survey admitted to having driven while under the influence of drugs and nearly a third said they had got into a car driven by someone they knew to have been smoking cannabis.

FLEET managers can now complete driver assessments through Chevin Fleet Solutions’ fleet management software.

FORD’S new S-MAX seven-seat people carrier will be priced from £16,767 when it goes on sale in June.

A FREE day of consultancy is being offered to fleet operators who buy a new fleet management software module.

NATIONWIDE Autocentres has been crowned UK Repairer of the Year in the AM Awards for the third time in four years.

AVERAGE fuel prices in the UK.

FLEET NewsNet looks at how new cars taken on to a typical fleet might perform over the next three years/60,000 miles.

VOLUME carmakers across Europe are seeing registrations fall above the average rate and residual values plummet as more buyers go for prestige or budget marques.

RESULTS from around the UK.

LETTERS to Fleet News’ editor Martyn Moore.

CORPORATES in the UK may be paying too much money in the form of cash to employees who elect to opt out of their company cars.

WITH lower-medium fleet cars costing anything up to £20,000 nowadays, it seems hard to believe that you can buy a panel van for ten grand.

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