Interview: ACFO's new chairman speaks to BusinessCar

Date: 18 August 2014   |   Author:

A couple of years down the line, Burton Group was looking at a sale and leaseback of its 2500 vehicles, so all departments were requested to send in vehicle details.

"I got a call from the treasury department and HR, asking if I would be interested in helping amalgamate the fleet because I was the only one who knew where my cars and logbooks were and what the registration numbers were," he continues. "We outsourced everything, but have kept the role. I kept cars and then came mobile phones because at the time the only people with mobile phones were the ones that had cars."

Expenses and business travel followed to get Pryor to his current responsibility, and the firm now has 590 cars leased through Arval in a partnership going back more than 20 years, while anther 570 take the cash option.

Pryor joined ACFO around 18 years ago after getting talking to one of the association's directors, Jim Thorn, on a Vauxhall factory tour. "It was a case that no one in the Burton Group ran a fleet and these were people that ran fleets. It was where you could get advice and hear stories," he recalls.

Arcadia supported Pryor's ascension to the ACFO board six years ago.

"It's helped because lots of ACFO meetings have been in London. I can get to the Treasury in 15 minutes and it's easy for me to get to the DVLA in London," he explains.

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