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November 11th, 2008
Lex Enables VT Education and Skills To Become ‘Fleet Heroes’ After Winning National Award For Green Company Car Scheme
VT Education and Skills (VTE&S) is the largest work-based learning provider in the UK. The organisation delivers learning programmes to over 18,000 learners nationwide and work with over 6,000 employers. Through high quality delivery of training, and working in partnership with learners, employers, government and industry bodies, VTE&S aims to improve the work skills of young people and adults throughout the UK.
Lex’s work with the Education and Skills division of major support services company, VT Group, began in June 2007, when discussions took place to plan a strategy, which as an end result would see VTE&S’ reliance on their ‘grey fleet’ drastically reduced. As a parallel to reducing CO2 emissions, the reduction in ‘grey fleet’ would enable VT to offer a car as part of the salary package which would better retain staff, and also meet the company’s obligations regarding duty of care.
Commenting on VT’s success at the Energy Saving Trust’s annual Fleet Hero Awards, Graham Harper, Strategic Account Manager, Lex said: “we are delighted that VT has scooped the award for ‘Grey fleet champion’. The award illustrates the benefits that businesses should take when reducing their grey fleet; lowering CO2, improved employee retention and complying with duty of care responsibilities. All of us at Lex that worked on helping VT achieve those standards offer warm congratulations.”
Mark Mardell, Supply Chain Director at VT Education and Skills said: “We have worked closely with Lex and are thoroughly grateful for their advice and commitment which has enabled us to implement the changes to our grey fleet. Winning the award is a fantastic result and Lex’s involvement should not be understated.”
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About Lex
Lex is part of the HBOS group. The business owns a fleet of over 250,000 cars and vans.
Lex has a motoring heritage dating back to 1928. Today over 20,000 businesses across the UK, including two thirds of FT-SE 100 companies, trust it to provide motoring and vehicle services.
The company is the UK's largest contract hire provider of company cars and vans.
For more information, please contact James Lambert, Head of PR at Lex on (+44) 7826 875371 or email james.lambert@lex.co.uk
About VT Education and Skills (VTE&S)
VTE&S consists of five Business Units: VT Flagship (the Royal Navy’s training partner), VT FourS (education support services), VT Training (vocational training), VT Careers Management (information, advice and guidance) and Building Schools for the Future (building and maintaining new schools).
VTE&S is the UK’s largest training, education and skills’ company and is part of VT Group (www.vtplc.com) which employs over 14,000 people and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.2billion.
The company supports over 500 schools providing school improvement, education consultancy, ICT solutions, workforce development, training and conferences. It also has two Building Schools for the Future (BSF) contracts which will, in due course, cover about 25 secondary schools. Through VT Flagship the company plays a key role in designing, planning, delivering and assessing 900 training courses across the Royal Navy’s training establishments.
More information can be found at www.vtplc.com/educationandskills
For more information, please contact Julia Dixon, Head of VTE&S Communications 02392 339 066 or email julia.dixon@vtplc.com
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