Global Vehicle Group reports ‘transformational’ 2025

Global Vehicle Group (GVG) has described 2025 as a transformational year for the business, following the acquisition of Fleet Alliance, the integration of the LCV Group into XLCR and strong performance across its specialist brands.

The group now manages more than 70,000 vehicles and delivers around 18,000 vehicles a year to business customers across the UK, placing it among the country’s larger B2B leasing broker groups. Its brands – Global Vans, XLCR, the LCV Group and Fleet Alliance – cover light commercial vehicles, cars, salary sacrifice schemes and fleet management for SMEs through to large corporates.

“Our brands have all performed strongly – from vans and LCVs through Global Vans, XLCR and the LCV Group, to cars, salary sacrifice and fleet management through Fleet Alliance. Together they give us a platform that can support customers right across the spectrum.”

In early 2025, the LCV business was brought into the group and effectively became part of XLCR, strengthening GVG’s position in light commercial vehicles and van leasing.

The acquisition of Glasgow-based Fleet Alliance in June 2025 added a managed fleet and corporate proposition and broadened the group’s technology capabilities, including the eFleet platform. According to the company, this has expanded its reach into larger and more complex fleets, strengthened its salary sacrifice offering and increased funder diversification, with no single finance partner accounting for more than around 15–20% of group business.

“Global Vans, XLCR, the LCV Group and Fleet Alliance each bring something distinct – sector expertise, strong customer relationships and deep product knowledge,” Hurst said. “Our focus now is on joining up those strengths so customers get the best of the group, regardless of which brand is their main point of contact.”

Behind the scenes, GVG has moved further towards operating as a single group while retaining individual brand identities. During 2025 it began consolidating operations into a unified back-office platform spanning fleet operations, LCVs, cars, salary sacrifice and support services. The group has also shared best practice across brands in areas such as sales processes, customer care, procurement and risk, and strengthened central leadership in finance, marketing, people and compliance.

“Our strategy is simple,” Hurst said. “We want to be the best B2B leasing broker group in the market. To achieve that, we’re keeping the individual brands that customers know and trust, but building one highly efficient operating engine that sits underneath them – a single, powerful platform with a series of specialist front doors.”

Looking ahead, Global Vehicle Group has set out priorities for 2026, including expanding the eFleet platform across its customer base, growing salary sacrifice and “salary sacrifice light” propositions, harmonising processes across brands, maximising group synergies and developing a single AI-enabled platform through modular upgrades. The group also plans to focus on renewals, fleet changes and new business wins, alongside staff development and efficiency gains.

Hurst added: “We’re not interested in growth for its own sake. Our aim for 2026 is disciplined, sustainable expansion – integrating what we’ve built, scaling our EV and salary sacrifice propositions, and making sure every one of our brands can offer more to customers because they are part of Global Vehicle Group.”