Bank of Scotland Chairman visits award-winning Berkshire company

28 March 2008

Peter Cummins, Chairman of the Bank of Scotland, took time out from his busy work schedule to visit the headquarters of DriveTech (UK) plc in Crowthorne, near Bracknell in late March. His visit was prompted by DriveTech winning the South England and Wales section of the 2007 Bank of Scotland Entrepreneurial Challenge.

Mr Cummins toured both DriveTech premises in Wellington Business Park and engaged in strategic talks with company Chairman Chris Howell and Managing Director Jim Kirkwood.

“Despite winning the regional Entrepreneurial Challenge competition we did not really expect a visit from a genuine captain of industry”, said Chris Howell. “It was a most welcome surprise when we received the call and very gratifying to discover that Mr Cummins was genuinely interested in the plans we have for the future.”

DriveTech is at the cutting edge of driver safety. The company provides a wide range of products and services to assist employers in reducing the huge cost of on-road collisions caused by business drivers and is also the principal supplier behind the various schemes offered by the police, where workshops can be attended as opposed to paying a fine and taking points on the driving licence.

Editor's Notes

DriveTech (UK) plc is one of the UK’s leading providers of road risk management, driver assessment and education. We work both with organisations whose employees ‘drive for work’ and with members of the public, who are offered education as an alternative to prosecution by the police.

DriveTech’s vision is ‘working together to eliminate road death and serious injuries’ by providing the most effective and innovative solutions, using education and technology, to minimise risk for all road users.

DriveTech (UK) has won the Institute of Transport Management’s (ITM) ‘Fleet Award for Driver Training’ in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and the ‘European Driver Safety Specialist’ award in 2005. In September 2007, it was named the ITM’s ‘UK Driver Training Solutions Specialist’ for making ‘the most significant impact upon the Driver Training and Safety sector over the past decade’

In 2007, DriveTech (UK) won the South England and South Wales regional award of the Bank of Scotland Corporate ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ of up to £5m, interest-free funding and was runner-up in the national Grand Finale. In addition, the company was named runner-up in the 2007 Thames Valley ‘Business of the Year’ award.

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