What a year!

2011 proved quite eventful for us.

The highlights were that we:

  • Had 3 new books published
  • Worked on the development of a new pan-Asian leasing company
  • Worked on interesting projects in France and the Netherlands
  • Helped to run 4 Buckingham Forums
  • Worked on 9 small advisory projects, mainly for investors looking to buy into the UK fleet market
  • Helped 3 major groups go out to tender for their global fleet requirements
  • Developed our new price optimisation software
  • Ran training and coaching sessions in 7 of the largest organisations in the UK
  • Gave 11 public talks, mainly on fleet- and pricing- related topics
  • Had a monthly column published in Fleet Week on the Mathematics of Leasing
  • Had 12 other articles published
  • Had 20,000 visitors to our website
  • Sold nearly 3,000 books
  • Colin was appointed  non-exec director of Carbon Heroes

Our plans for 2012 include:

  • Building on the success of the Buckingham Forums
  • Running fleet conferences in Australia and the Far East
  • Implementing pricing software and solutions in a number of finance and leasing companies
  • Publication of two new leasing books

Happy New Year!

Business Car Manager expert Colin Tourick joins Carbon Heroes board

Article from Business Car Manager magazine

Car sharing website to benefit from Colin Tourick’s expertise

Fleet expert and Business Car Manager expert Colin Tourick has joined the board of carbon heroes as a non-executive director

COLIN Tourick, fleet consultant and one of the experts on our Ask The Experts panel, has spread his wings further with appointment to the board of Carbon Heroes as a non-executive director.

Congratulations to him from us here at Business Car Manager.

Now, possibly, you’ve not heard of Carbon Heroes, but this is a company that assists other businesses to reduce the environmental impact of their employees’ commuting and business travel, delivering cost savings in the process.

In other words, it’s a car-sharing facilitator. “We’re not ‘anti car’,” explained Craig Barrack, managing director of Carbon Heroes.

“We use cars too – they often the only practical transport solution for many of our journeys. However, more