Welcome to Business Car Manager
Ensuring you make a profit from every operational area must be a key target for all small businesses. Yet selling business cars inefficiently is leaking profit opportunities. How can you stop the bottom line erosion? By following best practice says Professor Peter Cooke in our lead story.
Business Car Manager is dedicated to assisting small businesses manage their cars and vans through best practice. The Telegraph Business Club promotes best practice to SMEs. Which is why Business Car Manager now feeds stories to the online site – if you haven’t visited the Telegraph Business Club page I urge you to do so.
Ralph Morton - editor
HEADLINE NEWS
A potential £240 is lost on every car sold by small businesses. “A lot of emphasis is placed on the front end cost savings of acquisition. But not at the back end cost savings of disposal,” reckons Professor Peter Cooke. His new report suggests small business should adopt big business best practice to maximise returns.
ALSO IN THE NEWS
As the environment forces changing behaviour, so more businesses want to run greener cars and vans. But with the mobile phone penalty doubling and also including three penalty points, duty of care still remains top priority. For more on the key business car issues, read the Lex survey.
A MINI Cooper with over 60mpg: sounds too good to be true. But the new Cooper D – a sporting diesel version of the new MINI – does just that. And the company car tax bills are low, low, low.
Business Car Manager has linked up with the Telegraph Business Club to promote best practice for small businesses. Click through to find out how you can benefit.
ROAD TESTS
The new C4 Picasso people mover features space, light, new tech - and seating for seven. The Independent’s John Simister gets to grips with all the gizmos.
The new Jaguar XKR is a sports car in the supercar league – but without the price tag to match. John Simister is blown away.
ADVICE CENTRE
Tim Rosser has found his business changing. Which means he’s spending more time on the road visiting clients. The downside has been the increased mileage that’s taking him over his contract term. DaimlerChrysler Fleet Management’s Dean Woodward provides some action points for Tim to consider.
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