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Our Awards
For more than 60 years, ALD Automotive and LeasePlan UK were award-winning mobility and leasing providers.
Now that we have come together as Ayvens, we have combined this highly regarded expertise and it is already being recognised by the industry. In 2024, Ayvens received the award for Fleet News Reader Recommended as well as the Business Van Award for Best Van Leasing Company and receiving the WhatVan? Award for the fifth consecutive year, something no other company has achieved since the start of the awards programme.
This recognition has not slowed us down. We are continually striving to be better with every move so we can ensure our services meet our customers’ needs.
- Fleet News Reader Recommended
2024 (ALD/LeasePlan) 2023 (LeasePlan)
- WhatVan? Awards
Winner: Leasing Company of the Year - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (LeasePlan) 2024 (ALD Automotive/LeasePlan) 2025 (Ayvens) Winner: Innovation Award - 2023 (ALD Automotive)
- Business Car Awards
Winner: Leasing Company of the Year 2023 (LeasePlan) 2024 (Ayvens)
- Business Vans Awards
Winner: Best Van Leasing 2024 (ALD Automotive / LeasePlan) 2019, 2020, 2022 (LeasePlan) Winner: Best Business Lease 2021 (LeasePlan)
- GreenFleet Annual Awards
Winner: Leasing Company of the Year 2025 (Ayvens) 2018, 2019, 2022 (LeasePlan) Highly Commended: 2020, 2021, 2023 (ALD Automotive/LeasePlan)
- GreenFleet 100
Top 100 Most Influential People in the Industry (Electric Vehicles / Decarbonisation)
2024: Alfonso Martinez (ALD Automotive / LeasePlan) 2025: To be confirmed
- 360 Media
Top 100 Trusted Products: 2025 Ayvens Flex and Ayvens EV Salary Sacrifice Top 100 Trusted Brands: 2024 ALD Automotive / LeasePlan
- BVRLA Customer Services Awards
2025: Toni Flower recognised by the BVRLA Industry Hero Awards as Finalist in the Decarbonisation Driver category 2024: Mark Evans and Matthew Walters (Highly commended) Decarbonisation Drivers (ALD Automotive | LeasePlan) 2023: Nicola Cottee – Winner Service Specialist BVRLA Industry Heroes named at Annual Dinner (LeasePlan)
- FN50 Awards
2024: FN50 Customer Service Awards Winner: Celeste Waghorn (Rising Star) Finalists: Toni Griffin (Individual Award) and Customer Services Team (Salary Sacrifice) (Ayvens) 2023: Winner Customer Service Rising Star Award - Lianna Saywell (ALD Automotive / LeasePlan) 2022: Wellbeing Award (LeasePlan) 2021: Customer Service Team (Highly Commended) (LeasePlan)
- Transport & Logistics Eagles Awards
Winner: Gold, 2023 (ALD Automotive)
- Barbara Cox 'Woman of the Year' Award
Jessica Chapman (Highly Commended) 2021
- Top Women in EV
Toni Flower (2024, 2025) Suzanne Phillips (2024, 2025) Emma Parfitt (2024)
Toni Flower, Propositions Lead for EV and Sustainability, has been instrumental in shaping our EV strategy, building excellent relationships with EV infrastructure providers and helping our customers make the seamless transition to electric vehicles.
Suzanne Phillips, was recognised for her leadership as UK Head of Specialist Sales – as she has been instrumental in accelerating the transition to lower emission, more efficient mobility solutions. She has led the strategy behind Ayvens EV Salary Sacrifice, EV Consultancy and Ayvens Flex and supporting some of the largest commercial vehicle fleets on their journey to net zero.
Emma Parfitt, Head of Product & Marketing, has been recognised for her transformative work in the development of e-mobility solutions – such as Flexible and EV Salary Sacrifice – and for her contribution in advancing understanding of EV across the group.
Judge's comments
Ayvens has harnessed the experience of two legacy brands, building unique service solutions that aim to make van customers’ lives easier now and in the future. Launched in September-2023, its ‘PowerUp 2026’ strategy sets the stage for a transformative three-year period. Their service levels made them a natural choice as the Business Vans Awards Winner for Best Van Leasing Company.
The merging of two of the world’s largest vehicle funders could have resulted in the new company slowing down or even a temporary drop in service standards. So, the judges were impressed, that instead, ALD Automotive/LeasePlan did the opposite. They innovated, being the only company to offer TCO+, which analysing vehicles’ actual performance and Journey Profiling identifying the most cost effective EVs, based on customer needs. They have also launched their Next Generations Digital Architecture and have shared free knowledge/resources for customers to access savings and transitions to EVs.
LeasePlan impressed judges with the expansion of its flagship offerings, such as LeasePlan Flexible, which now has a digital showroom, and its EV Salary Sacrifice scheme, which now has a new online portal which acts as a dedicated hub for drivers making the EV switch. With the addition of other innovations, such as environmental reporting for fleets and an EV Helpdesk, LeasePlan were worthy winners of GREENFLEET'S Leasing Company of the Year Award in 2022.
Certifications and accreditations
ISO 14001:2015 (environmental management)
ISO9001: 2015 (quality)
Investors in People
Health and Wellbeing Award - 2020 Gold accreditation - 2019
