The International Fleet Manager of the Year – Medium Fleet Award was launched this year. Adrian Porter, Director Fleet and Remarketing, Hyundai Motor Europe, announced the winners on stage: Montse Empez Vidal, Chief Purchasing Officer at Applus and Luisa Amate Comesaña, Group Fleet responsible at Applus.

Montse Empez Vidal has been Chief Purchasing Officer at Applus for four years now and manages a fleet of 4,600 vehicles worldwide. This award is the proof that a global centralised vision of management information system to control fleet with agreements with OEM and Lease Companies applicable everywhere, and a clear governance structure, leads to great results.

Applus is one of the world leading companies, based in Barcelona, providing solutions for customers in all types of industries to secure that their services and products reach the highest quality in health, safety and environmental standards. Applus Automotive offers various inspection and emission testing solutions worldwide with 17 million inspections held annually across Europe, North and South America.

Ms. Vidal and Ms. Comesañadeveloped the company’s fleet based on four elements: optimisation of resources, minimisation of costs and risks, creation of a consistency across the Group and definition of a flexible fleet structure for each country. Theirs and Applus aim regarding fleet management is to make the fleet programme fit the company’s strategy.