{"id":2673,"date":"2018-02-14T13:09:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2018-02-14T18:16:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:16:37","slug":"fleetplan-prepares-5bn-floatation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/fleetplan-prepares-5bn-floatation\/","title":{"rendered":"Car hire Business prepares for \u00a35bn floatation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s largest car <a href=\"https:\/\/partners.anythingforhire.com\/sign-up\">hire companies<\/a>, FleetPlan, is this week preparing for a\u00a0stock market float. Reporting another year of record sales and profits, the business has reached new heights. With profits jumping a substantial 13% to \u20ac677m, the business marks its 50th birthday with a great time of expansion.\u00a0Owning over 1.3m cars, the company is seeing a huge rise in interest, with the 21st Century &#8216;sharing economy&#8217; arguably responsible.#<\/p>\n<p>Reporting a \u201cclear megatrend\u201d in &#8220;ubership&#8221;, more and more people are moving away from buying cars outright. Working closely with the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/tag\/uber\/\">Uber<\/a>, the business has seen such contracts have a positive impact on sales. Sales increased by a whopping \u20ac9.4bn; but why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, not simply offering car hire, FleetPlan provides a full circle solution. This includes financing, insurance, as well as repair and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive, Tex Gunning, is a keen advocate of the hire model, believing their recent surge in popularity is largely down to people being more educated on their transport options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers are realising you can buy a car that is three or four years old and still get another 100,000 miles out of it,\u201d Mr Gunning said.<\/p>\n<p>Promising a zero-emissions fleet by 2030; the company should only increase in value.<\/p>\n<p>Though profits are well and truly up, the company did experience a \u20ac65m hit for one-off charges. These charges\u00a0included the fees for preparing for a possible listing.<\/p>\n<p>If you are on the search for car hire solutions in your area, then be sure to make use of the Anything for Hire website. Offering the UK&#8217;s first comparison tool; you could be seconds away from saving money on car hire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s largest car hire companies, FleetPlan, is this week preparing for a\u00a0stock market float. Reporting another year of record sales and profits, the business has reached new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1036,1015,1011,1025,1413,1089,1409,1412,1022,1204,1213,1410,1408,1411,1044],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-transport-hire"],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}