POWERMARQUE has announced five new contract hire deals, with a total order value of £4.3 million. The largest of the deals involves the supply on contract hire of 70 cars and commercial vehicles, under a solus deal with Peugeot, to process engineering company Purac, which previously used Rovers.

Powermarque has also secured a sale and leaseback arrangement for 60 cars and commercial vehicles on a user-chooser policy with commercial waste disposal company Alpheus Environmental. The other deals, which involve full outsourcing with contract hire and driver contact, are with satellite mapping company Geodesys for 50 user-chooser cars; river engineering company AES for 50 user-chooser cars and commercials; and with Infrastructure Services, which provides support for home developers, for 20 cars on a user-chooser policy.