Editor’s Blog

The crème de la crème of European business toasted success after the winners of the European Business Awards 2008 were announced at the high profile Awards Ceremony held in the InterContinental Le Grand Paris in Paris, with Isuzu Truck (UK) scooping the top award for Customer Focus, ahead of such distinguished competition as DELL and Deutsche Telecom/T Mobile.

UK motorists will soon be able to place orders to buy the first fully electric powered car later this year, when the new TH!NK city electric vehicle (EV) goes on sale in this country.

Nidd Vale Group, the leading independent Harrogate motor retailer, has won the prestigious MasterFit Retailer of the Year award from Vauxhall.

Outsourcing maintenance services allows transportation companies to focus on their core business – moving freight. P&O Ferrymasters has chosen GE's TIP Trailer Services to do the maintenance on their entire fleet of 1,500 trailers so they can do just that.

Bank of Scotland Dealer Finance has launched a new training scheme which aims to boost productivity and the bottom line for its dealers.

Zoombak Ltd. (www.zoombak.co.uk), a Liberty Media (NASDAQ: LCAPA) company, today announces the arrival of its first Zoombak advanced GPS locators and related services for vehicles in the UK in April 2008.

Nidd Vale Group, the Harrogate independent motor retailer, has been granted the Mitsubishi dealership for the area. This brings to five the number of franchises which the company now has on its Leeds Road site.

bluecycle, the UK's leading online marketplace for salvage, could save salvage companies thousands of pounds with a planned restructure of its logistics network.

Nearly 2,500 new caravans are purchased in Britain every year – that's an average of more than £20,000,000 worth of mobile home taking to UK roads.

Despite having a flawless driving license and no motoring or drug convictions to speak of, squeaky clean Daniel Radcliffe has to pay nearly four times (367%) more than Babyshambles front-man and notorious hell-raiser Pete Doherty for his car insurance, says Confused.com.