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October 11, 2010
Tempest Set to Increase Corporate Business with New Level 2 BBBEE Rating
Johannesburg, 11th October, 2010 - Tempest Car Hire is set to increase its corporate revenues with the announcement that it is the first company in the Imperial Group to achieve a Level 2 BBBEE status, with 125% recognition.This is according to Tempest Car Hire CEO, Leslie Matthews, who says that a focus on upskilling and upscaling employees from within the organisation, with a specific view to filling junior and middle management positions, has helped the company with improving its BEE scorecard.
"The company is also committed to learnerships and believes that exciting future prospects in terms of human capital are significant when a company takes on learnerships in its business," he adds. "Tempest's learnership programme for unemployed graduates, which is currently underway, will see us retaining 50% of these graduates within the organisation."
Matthews continues, "The appointment of a dedicated training manager with a focus on the development of general as well as soft skills and taking our staff through external NQF accredited training has also helped us to meet the company's upskilling goals."
He says that this new accreditation will help ensure that Tempest gets a bigger piece of South African's corporate car rental business. "Our corporate business currently constitutes approximately 45% of our revenues and we see this drastically increasing with this new rating and are looking forward to growing this respective channel," he explains.
"We believe this new rating, together with our low car rental cost structure, will be an attractive offering to the cost conscious corporate market, who are looking to save on travel budgets, particularly in the current economic climate."
He adds that with tenders calling for disclosure of BBBEE status, as it comprises a percentage of scoring in tender adjudication, Tempest is also looking to secure new business coming from the government arena.
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About Tempest Car Hire
Owned by the Imperial Holdings Group, Tempest is committed to offering ridiculously low car rental rates with some of the best deals on rental wheels. Its substantial fleet spans from economy vehicles and compact vehicles to people carriers and everything in-between. Whether the requirement is for daily or weekend rentals, one way hires or long term car rental, Tempest offers great rental deals, plus fantastic deals on GPS units, and airport transfers.
It also offers Tempest customers other value add specials through its alliance partners, including special deals on air fares and accommodation. Tempest prides itself on being a car rental provider that is super economical, with great rates, offering a personalised world class service for the cost conscious corporate and leisure markets.
Kisha van Vuuren
Director / Senior Strategist: Tin Can (PR)
@ Saatchi & Saatchi
Tel: +27 (0) 21 413 7500 (Cape Town)
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kisha@tincan.co.za
Posted by StaffWriter at October 11, 2010 7:23 AM