The entry period for this year's Business Car Awards is now well underway. With fewer than two months now to go to the deadline, we thought we'd take the time to acknowledge the sponsors that are backing this year's event.

The AA

As the UK's most popular breakdown provider, the AA serves almost ten million business customers, working with around three-fifths of the UK's top 20 fleets. It aims to offer the right mix of industry-leading services with first-class customer service, demonstrated by once again being named as a Which? Recommended Provider for breakdown cover. The organisation is strongly technology and data-led, while its service for corporate customers is designed to go beyond just keeping drivers on the road. It also helps to minimise wider stress and disruption to fleets and ensure the smoother running of operations through its award- winning services, including Key Assist, Battery Assist, Fuel Assist and EV Support. The AA says it puts its customers first, through core values of care, courtesy, collaboration, dynamism, and expertise, whether that is to ensure their safety, streamline administrative processes, keep them abreast of legislation, or reduce downtime.

Engineius

Engineius describes itself as the UK's leading vehicle movement service, and won Best Fleet Service Software Product at the Business Car Awards 2021. The company was founded in 2018 with the belief that it should be as easy to book and manage vehicle movements as it is to buy from Amazon or ride with Uber. The tech-enabled service is designed to allow customers across all automotive sectors to manage their movements with total transparency. Receiving a price for a job takes just 30 seconds and photos, GPS tracking, and timestamps can be monitored live online, providing customers with full visibility over their movements. A network of over 500 fully-trained drivers and transport agents provides comprehensive coverage across the UK. With Engineius, clients gain greater control of their vehicle movements, enabling them to provide a better service to their customers, save on admin time, reduce emissions, offer in-depth reporting, and cut costs, while it takes full responsibility for the logistics.

Grosvenor Group

The Grosvenor Group is the UK's largest privately-owned contract hire and fleet management specialist. Established more than 40 years ago, it also describes itself as one of the largest fleet sector companies to have resisted the temptation to adopt a process- driven, call centre culture - instead offering organisations with vehicle fleets, in both public and private sectors, a level of attention and support that leads to ongoing cost savings and heightened driver mobility. Its overall proposition combines four distinct offerings; Grosvenor Leasing, Interactive Fleet Management, Grosvenor Personal Leasing, and Grosvenor Salary Sacrifice. In addition, it offers the award-winning 0Zone solution, designed to help companies navigate their way smoothly towards ultra-low emission and electric vehicles. 0Zone has won multiple awards since its launch five years ago, and has helped companies such as Whistl, Weetabix, Tata Steel, and Glenmorangie Whisky reduce their emissions by moving to ULEVs and EVs.

Ogilvie Fleet

Ogilvie Fleet describes itself as the UK's leading independent leasing company, keeping organisations on the road up and down the country for more than 40 years. It provides a range of award-winning services, from contract hire and salary sacrifice, to fully outsourced fleet management that helps customers manage efficient fleets of all sizes. Its experts work with businesses to run fleets that are fit for purpose, cost-effective and bespoke to their needs. From offices in Stirling and Sheffield, it is able to service the whole of the UK via relationships with manufacturers, dealers and service partners. It says its employees are at the heart of everything it does, reinforced by Investors in People Gold status and two-star accreditation from Best Companies. As part of the Ogilvie Group, a family-owned business for almost 70 years, it prides itself on honesty and integrity, with a long list of awards for customer service and technology over the past ten years.

runyourfleet

As one of the UK's largest independent fleet management providers, runyourfleet manages 28,000 vehicles for businesses across the UK. Its subscription packages offer flexible and innovative solutions for fleets of all sizes. Services include maintenance, tailored breakdown cover, accident management, rental management, finance solutions, licence checking, and telematics. The runyourfleet.com platform is a SAAS solution designed for all fleet management needs, combining fleet management software with a full service delivery.

This year's Business Car Awards ceremony will take place on 21 September at the Hilton Bankside in London.

Entries are currently being sought for the following categories, with the deadline for submissions 30 June.