RE: Found on Twitter3 Dec 2025 18:19
Having re-read, I agree with your assessment Laughton. Mea culpa. I'm not complaining anyway. If they can deliver c£20m of annual savings by FY28 that will certainly boost the bottom line with the ususal caveats (fleet managers won't be slow to spot the increased margings and better opportunities for discounts; if nothing else it will help Zigup to remain competitive).
It rather tickles me that in Spain Zigup trades under Nothgate Vehicle Hire (vehicle rental), Northgate Espana (mobility) and Northgate Talleres (repairs and maintenance). There's nothing wrong with the name Northgate per se and I do appreciate that Zigup was forged by the merger of Northgate and Redde in 2020 but it's hardly Avis or Hertz and, given that the Spanish business all started when Northgate acquired Furgonetas de Alquiler SA in the early 2000s, one would have thought that Northgate might have kept with a Spanish theme'd name (as name recognition goes I doubt any Spanish would ever have heard of Northgare before). Admittedly Furgonetas de Alquiler literally translates as Van Rentals, so some work might have been needed there but sometimes names or phrases just sound better in a foreign language e.g. I'm not sure Joe Green would, at the time, have had quite the same impact as Guiseppe Verdi ;-)