This 100-year-old global company streamlined fleet operations, reducing costs of the targeted passenger fleet, trimmed dealer out-of-stock purchases, lowered acquisition costs and accident rates, and decreased greenhouse gas emissions.
Read More →SAN BERNARDINO, CA - Plans to hire a consultant to conduct a "top-to-bottom" review of the county's 5,000 vehicles could lead to reductions and consolidation of the county's maintenance and repair operations.
Read More →WILMINGTON, DE - With an $800 million budget shortfall, consolidation of government departments, including fleet, has been put on the table as a way to become more cost-effective.
Read More →ORLANDO, FL – Tight budgets and dwindling property tax revenues are creating pressure to look into merging two of Central Florida's largest fire departments: Orlando and Orange County, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Read More →TOLEDO, OH – Mayor Carty Finkbeiner recently announced the City of Toledo will move to consolidate its fleet operations service garages, saving taxpayers around $500,000, reported NBC 24.
Read More →TORONTO – As part of the consolidation, AirIQ announced the appointment of Donald Gibbs as general manager of the company's land business unit. Gibbs will also continue in his role as chief financial officer.
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Fourteen Siemens operating companies, which all had separate fleets prior to 1999, consolidated and became Siemens Shared Services. A department intranet site eliminated 13.5 days from the vehicle ordering cycle.
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The October 9th edition of The Wall Street Journal describes how those companies that piled on the debt in the '80s are now engaged in a "bad hangover," yearning for equity as they slash expenses, pleading with bondholders, and getting little sympathy from the financial shareholder community because of their high costs of debt service prompted by "mergeritis."
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