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2010, a year of strong growth for the Arval group
Despite the economical climate, ARVAL Romania showed in 2010 a raise of 10% of its market share, consolidating the 3rd position on the Romanian market of auto full service operational leasing.
With access to the resources and the experience of a strong group, Arval Romania proved in 2010 that the financial crisis could become an opportunity. As a consequence, the measurable results, quantified in the enlarged fleet, also meant creativity, expertise and the quality of service – the three pillars that define Arval business.
2010 brought Arval Romania a 10% growth of the market share and the launch of several new products, created to answer the clients’ needs. We should mention, among them: Sale & Lease Back Arval, developing the Service Locator and Arval Mobile application, the first ever created for i-Phone on the Romanian market of operational leasing or the new safety & eco driving program – Drive4Life.
By the end of 2010, the total fleet of Arval Romania summed up 3,500 vehicles, with a raise of 30% compared to 2009 and a turnover of Euro 21 million, 40% bigger than the previous year. The investments carried out in 2010 reached Euro 11 million. In 2011, Arval Romania plans to invest 5 million more above this amount (a raise of 45%).
For this year, the growth of the fleet is assessed to 4,300 vehicles and the turnover is estimated to register a raise of 20 - 25%, in accordance with the general growing trend of the market. Christian Busch, Managing Director of Arval Romania said: “We will keep offering down to earth services and solutions, tailored to the customers’ needs, with emphasis on quality and innovation. We want to become a quality benchmark for the Romanian operational leasing market”.
The same trend was applied within the entire Arval group that showed a strong upturn in its activities for 2010. Its performance significantly outstripped that of the market, with a 10% increase in the fleet, that now reaches a total of 667,500 vehicles, compared to the market’s limited growth of 1%. The group now holds 10% market share in Europe, thereby consolidating its n°2* position.
Despite an economic climate that remains difficult, Arval’s fleet progressed steadily from 2009 (10% up) and the vehicle purchased rose with 180,600 units (27% up from 2009). In turn, the number of vehicles sold (149,800) increased by 7% compared to 2009.
With access to the resources and the experience of a strong group, Arval Romania proved in 2010 that the financial crisis could become an opportunity. As a consequence, the measurable results, quantified in the enlarged fleet, also meant creativity, expertise and the quality of service – the three pillars that define Arval business.
2010 brought Arval Romania a 10% growth of the market share and the launch of several new products, created to answer the clients’ needs. We should mention, among them: Sale & Lease Back Arval, developing the Service Locator and Arval Mobile application, the first ever created for i-Phone on the Romanian market of operational leasing or the new safety & eco driving program – Drive4Life.
By the end of 2010, the total fleet of Arval Romania summed up 3,500 vehicles, with a raise of 30% compared to 2009 and a turnover of Euro 21 million, 40% bigger than the previous year. The investments carried out in 2010 reached Euro 11 million. In 2011, Arval Romania plans to invest 5 million more above this amount (a raise of 45%).
For this year, the growth of the fleet is assessed to 4,300 vehicles and the turnover is estimated to register a raise of 20 - 25%, in accordance with the general growing trend of the market. Christian Busch, Managing Director of Arval Romania said: “We will keep offering down to earth services and solutions, tailored to the customers’ needs, with emphasis on quality and innovation. We want to become a quality benchmark for the Romanian operational leasing market”.
The same trend was applied within the entire Arval group that showed a strong upturn in its activities for 2010. Its performance significantly outstripped that of the market, with a 10% increase in the fleet, that now reaches a total of 667,500 vehicles, compared to the market’s limited growth of 1%. The group now holds 10% market share in Europe, thereby consolidating its n°2* position.
Despite an economic climate that remains difficult, Arval’s fleet progressed steadily from 2009 (10% up) and the vehicle purchased rose with 180,600 units (27% up from 2009). In turn, the number of vehicles sold (149,800) increased by 7% compared to 2009.
ARVAL is launching Dive4Life training program
ARVAL Romania, one of the most known entities on the Romanian market of operational auto leasing with full services included, is launching Drive4Life training program, created with the aim to reduce the rate of accidents, costs and time and, above all, to help acknowledge the impact that defensive driving has on the environment.
The many concerning statistics about the number of people injured or deceased in accidents are the reason for which ARVAL group has put together a training program for drivers. The objective: to teach them how to drive under maximum security and pay respect to the nature.
Drive4Life is a program designed for ARVAL clients that wants to inform drivers on the safety regulations in traffic and to convince them to apply the information learned, understanding the serious consequences that not applying the rules can have.
The program has two components:
• Training Drive4Life – theoretical part about traffic safety and eco driving
• Coaching Drive4Life – practical application of the safety driving with test drive
ARVAL Romania has the support of two well-known pilots in this program: George Grigorescu and Edwin Keleti are champions in many rally courses and are the ones that accompany the trainees on the training tracks.
“We offer to all ARVAL Romania clients the best consultancy regarding all fleet management: risk prevention, sustainability, the most detailed analyze and several opportunities to reduce costs. Now, we add to all that the Drive4Life program and hope it will have a noticeable impact on the business of our clients by reducing the number of serious accidents and making savings for the fleet maintenance”, said ARVAL Romania Managing Director, Christian Busch.
Several programs to raise awareness on the safety and eco driving have been implemented by ARVAL in many European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Swiss, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Great Britain, Norway, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Hungary. The results have soon made a difference. In Great Britain alone the accidents have decreased with 37% and the maintenance costs were reduced with 14%.
The many concerning statistics about the number of people injured or deceased in accidents are the reason for which ARVAL group has put together a training program for drivers. The objective: to teach them how to drive under maximum security and pay respect to the nature.
Drive4Life is a program designed for ARVAL clients that wants to inform drivers on the safety regulations in traffic and to convince them to apply the information learned, understanding the serious consequences that not applying the rules can have.
The program has two components:
• Training Drive4Life – theoretical part about traffic safety and eco driving
• Coaching Drive4Life – practical application of the safety driving with test drive
ARVAL Romania has the support of two well-known pilots in this program: George Grigorescu and Edwin Keleti are champions in many rally courses and are the ones that accompany the trainees on the training tracks.
“We offer to all ARVAL Romania clients the best consultancy regarding all fleet management: risk prevention, sustainability, the most detailed analyze and several opportunities to reduce costs. Now, we add to all that the Drive4Life program and hope it will have a noticeable impact on the business of our clients by reducing the number of serious accidents and making savings for the fleet maintenance”, said ARVAL Romania Managing Director, Christian Busch.
Several programs to raise awareness on the safety and eco driving have been implemented by ARVAL in many European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Swiss, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Great Britain, Norway, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Hungary. The results have soon made a difference. In Great Britain alone the accidents have decreased with 37% and the maintenance costs were reduced with 14%.
Arval Romania launches „Arval Mobile” application for iPhone and smartphones!
Bucharest, September 29th 2010 - Arval Romania, part of BNP Paribas Group and one of the leading companies on the Romanian full-service operational leasing market, developed “Arval Mobile” application for iPhone and the website mobile version, for smartphones. This initiative is part of a consistent innovative process, following the launch of Service Locator, the online interactive tool.
Available for free, “Arval Mobile” application allows every driver that has a car from Arval to access useful information, to save time and facilitate mobility. Thanks to this application, any user can easily identify, using the mobile phone, the nearest service for maintenance, repairing or for changing the tires. By using “Arval Mobile” application, one can check the availability of a certain service point and make an appointment or, even more, can check the whole range of services allocated to the owned car. In case of an emergency, the driver can ask for assistance at the required time and moment, to one of Arval’s technical advisors. Moreover, the address of a service point can be added in iPhone or smartphones’ navigation system so the user is redirected to the selected point.
“Taking into consideration that the number of gadget users is increasing, “Arval Mobile” application completes the facilities offered by the new technologies, thus ensuring optimal mobility in a very short time for our clients”, states Arnault Leglaye, Arval Romania Managing Director.
“Arval Mobile” application is available for Arval Romania clients on Internet via mobile.arval.ro for smartphones*, and in a few day’s time, will be available for download from AppStore for iPhone 3G/3GS/4G. The users can be guided to the selected location directly from the iPhone thanks to a series of functions such as: calculate itinerary or save preferences by using the customization section.
By launching Arval Mobile application, Arval underlines its preoccupation of continuously perfect the services offered to its clients and ensuring the optimal mobility.
* available using Internet access via 3G, WIFI or EDGE.
Available for free, “Arval Mobile” application allows every driver that has a car from Arval to access useful information, to save time and facilitate mobility. Thanks to this application, any user can easily identify, using the mobile phone, the nearest service for maintenance, repairing or for changing the tires. By using “Arval Mobile” application, one can check the availability of a certain service point and make an appointment or, even more, can check the whole range of services allocated to the owned car. In case of an emergency, the driver can ask for assistance at the required time and moment, to one of Arval’s technical advisors. Moreover, the address of a service point can be added in iPhone or smartphones’ navigation system so the user is redirected to the selected point.
“Taking into consideration that the number of gadget users is increasing, “Arval Mobile” application completes the facilities offered by the new technologies, thus ensuring optimal mobility in a very short time for our clients”, states Arnault Leglaye, Arval Romania Managing Director.
“Arval Mobile” application is available for Arval Romania clients on Internet via mobile.arval.ro for smartphones*, and in a few day’s time, will be available for download from AppStore for iPhone 3G/3GS/4G. The users can be guided to the selected location directly from the iPhone thanks to a series of functions such as: calculate itinerary or save preferences by using the customization section.
By launching Arval Mobile application, Arval underlines its preoccupation of continuously perfect the services offered to its clients and ensuring the optimal mobility.
* available using Internet access via 3G, WIFI or EDGE.
Arval Romania launched the interactive online tool “Service Locator”
Bucharest, 22 July 2010 - Arval Romania, part of BNP Paribas Group and one of the leading companies on the Romanian and European full-service operational leasing market, diversifies its online solutions by launching Service Locator application.
An online interactive tool, Service Locator allows Arval clients to check for free, right from the company’s web page (www.arval.ro), Arval partners network providing all the types of services (from gas to service stations).
Thus, the users benefit from an interactive and easy to use online map, that helps them to find, using brand or location criteria, the Arval partners providing maintenance and repairing services tires and gas or car body shops in every city in the country.
„Now, when the Internet has become one of the most popular and most efficient resources of information, we decided to extend our service portfolio by offering our clients an out of the box and added value online solution. Service Locator is an online application exclusively designed for our Romanian customers having a strong utility character. The launch of Service Locator application is part of a series of actions - that will be announced in September - through which we will radically change our client approach”, states Arnault Leglaye, Managing Director Arval Romania.
About Arval
Founded in 1989, Arval is the international reference for multibrand operational leasing and vehicles fleet management, and the leader on the operational leasing market in France and Italy. Currently, Arval is present in 39 countries, having 22 units and a wide range of partnerships in other 17 countries.
Arval started its activity in Romania at the end of 2006. By the end of 2009, it already managed a fleet of 2.750 vehicles, increasing by 60% compared to the end of 2008 and 15 million euros turnover, approximately 65% higher, compared to 2008.
With 602.000 vehicles in operational leasing system and 688.000 vehicles administrated at the end of 2008, Arval is part of BNP Paribas Group, the European leader of banking services and one of the first six most solid international banking groups, according to Standard&Poor’s.
For more information about the company please visit www.arval.ro.
An online interactive tool, Service Locator allows Arval clients to check for free, right from the company’s web page (www.arval.ro), Arval partners network providing all the types of services (from gas to service stations).
Thus, the users benefit from an interactive and easy to use online map, that helps them to find, using brand or location criteria, the Arval partners providing maintenance and repairing services tires and gas or car body shops in every city in the country.
„Now, when the Internet has become one of the most popular and most efficient resources of information, we decided to extend our service portfolio by offering our clients an out of the box and added value online solution. Service Locator is an online application exclusively designed for our Romanian customers having a strong utility character. The launch of Service Locator application is part of a series of actions - that will be announced in September - through which we will radically change our client approach”, states Arnault Leglaye, Managing Director Arval Romania.
About Arval
Founded in 1989, Arval is the international reference for multibrand operational leasing and vehicles fleet management, and the leader on the operational leasing market in France and Italy. Currently, Arval is present in 39 countries, having 22 units and a wide range of partnerships in other 17 countries.
Arval started its activity in Romania at the end of 2006. By the end of 2009, it already managed a fleet of 2.750 vehicles, increasing by 60% compared to the end of 2008 and 15 million euros turnover, approximately 65% higher, compared to 2008.
With 602.000 vehicles in operational leasing system and 688.000 vehicles administrated at the end of 2008, Arval is part of BNP Paribas Group, the European leader of banking services and one of the first six most solid international banking groups, according to Standard&Poor’s.
For more information about the company please visit www.arval.ro.
Arval Romania manages 3000 vehicles!
Bucharest, June 21, 2010. Arval Romania, part of BNP Paribas Group and one of the leading companies on the Romanian and European full-service operational leasing market, registered recently a 30% increase of the administrated fleet, reaching 3000 cars, compared to the same period of last year, when it had 2300 vehicles.
„In times of economic uncertainty, operational leasing is one of the fields that offers clear advantages for the companies, by externalising risk, optimising costs, and diminishing the effects of the financial crisis. We aim to invest further on in the fleet for meeting the increasing requirements from the companies, by the end of the year forecasting we will have 3400 vehicles”, stated Arnault Leglaye, Arval Romania Managing Director.
According to a Datamonitor survey, quoted by Arval Romania, the growth of the operational leasing market at a European level will be highest in the emerging states, where the concept is gaining popularity as a funding method. Companies from countries like Romania, Russia and Ukraine are now able to understand the benefits associated with operational leasing, which can significantly reduce the cost of acquiring new company cars. Thus, the survey’s results say the take-up of new operational leasing contracts in Europe will grow by around 5% in 2010.
Arval Romania’s officials forecast the turn over will reach 19-20 million euros in 2010. In the present, Arval Romania registers a number of 200 clients, by 57% more than the same period of 2009.
„In times of economic uncertainty, operational leasing is one of the fields that offers clear advantages for the companies, by externalising risk, optimising costs, and diminishing the effects of the financial crisis. We aim to invest further on in the fleet for meeting the increasing requirements from the companies, by the end of the year forecasting we will have 3400 vehicles”, stated Arnault Leglaye, Arval Romania Managing Director.
According to a Datamonitor survey, quoted by Arval Romania, the growth of the operational leasing market at a European level will be highest in the emerging states, where the concept is gaining popularity as a funding method. Companies from countries like Romania, Russia and Ukraine are now able to understand the benefits associated with operational leasing, which can significantly reduce the cost of acquiring new company cars. Thus, the survey’s results say the take-up of new operational leasing contracts in Europe will grow by around 5% in 2010.
Arval Romania’s officials forecast the turn over will reach 19-20 million euros in 2010. In the present, Arval Romania registers a number of 200 clients, by 57% more than the same period of 2009.
Arval Romania: "The demand for Sale&Lease-Back increased by 45% in the first three months of 2010"
Arval Romania, part of BNP Paribas Group and one of the leading companies on the Romanian and European full-service operational leasing market, registered a 45% increase for the Sale&Lease-Back product demand within this year’s first three months, in comparison to the same period of 2009. The product implies buying the vehicles of the company by Arval Romania, and the same fleet is given in use to the same companies through full-service operational leasing, paying a fixed monthly installment. Thus, the companies obtain an increase of liquidities to develop core-business activities.
1 April 2010
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Arval Romania: „2010 will represent a year of stability for the local operational leasing market”
In the next three years, 63% of the European companies will seek for operational leasing solutions
Bucharest, August 24, 2009. According to a survey conducted by Arval in 12 European countries, in the next three years, the companies will focus more on operational leasing services for their fleet vehicle management, across all sizes of business. 63% of the companies with over 1.000 employees plan to increase their use of contract hire. From this procent, 44% already use it and 20% plan to switch funding method.
24 August 2009