Pendragon announced as sole supplier for Davidson Holdings

Davidson Holdings has selected Pendragon Contracts as its sole supplier for handing the total management of its fleet.

The group has grown in recent years through acquisition, with each of the businesses operating its own fleet policy.  To avoid further fragmentation, the company took the decision to subcontract its car policy and vehicle management, and selected Pendragon Contracts based on its considerable experience in developing company-wide solutions. 

The fleet management company consulted with Davidson Holdings to provide a banded choice list of management and sales vehicles appropriate for its 125 employees, which will be restricted to six manufacturers.  Each vehicle’s Co2 emissions will be capped at 130 g/km and will take into account the whole life cost of the model.

As part of its consultancy, Pendragon Contracts has given all Davidson Holdings staff access to DAVE (Driver And Vehicle Extranet), its bespoke online driver selection and information portal.  This will provide employees with full details of Pendragon Contracts’ accident management and vehicle downtime management services, including daily rental, making it a more professional and attractive group-wide proposition. 

Stuart Johnson, finance director of Davidson Holdings, says, “With previous experience of the services and expertise offered by Pendragon Contracts we were confident that its banded user chooser policy assigned to our employees would be appropriate.  It was also important that the presentation of the group-wide policy should be attractive internally to incentivise staff to follow the procedure and to assist with employee retention.  DAVE is just the kind of platform we need.”

John Given, sales & marketing director for Pendragon Contracts, agrees, “When consolidating a fragmented car policy into one, it’s important to receive the buy-in from everyone involved.  By focusing on key manufacturers that can deliver cost-effectively on Co2 emissions and whole life cost as well as providing a full fleet management service, vehicle downtime can be minimised and, importantly, a positive image of the company can be communicated.”