Citroёn has fulfilled an order to supply 290 vehicles to Ukrtelecom, the country’s largest fixed-line operator, with financing from Avis Ukraine, the automaker’s representative office in Ukraine has announced.
“This is the first experience of supplying Citroёn vehicles to Ukrtelecom. The deal was made through the Citroën Ilta Lviv dealership with financing from Avis Ukraine, which will also provide Ukrtelecom with a full package of operational leasing services: car maintenance at service stations, tire storage, replacement cars for the duration of service and other services,” the representative office said in a press release.
Avis Ukraine has been providing leasing services to Ukrtelecom for three years. As part of the fleet renewal, the operator requested vehicles that meet the company’s current development program.
“Citroёn cars showed the best ratio of consumer properties for a competitive price,” the company said in a statement without specifying the value of the agreement.
As part of the agreement, Ukrtelecom received 235 Citroёn Berlingo minivans and 55 Citroёn C-Elysée sedans.
The press release notes that as part of Ukrtelecom’s requirement to deliver the vehicles directly to the operator’s branches in all regional centers of Ukraine, the vehicles were prepared and delivered by Citroën Ilta Lviv, one of the largest dealers of Stellantis vehicles in Ukraine.
The official representative office of Citroën in Ukraine has been operating since 2010. Currently, the brand is represented by Stellantis.
In 2024, the company plans to increase Citroën sales in Ukraine by more than 1.5 times compared to 2023 – up to 3,057 thousand (including 2,885 thousand passenger cars).
“Avis Ukraine is a division of Avis, an international car rental and leasing provider with offices in 185 countries. In Ukraine, the company provides services under the Avis (since 1997) and Payless (since 2016) brands, ranging from car rental for individuals and legal entities to the formation of car fleets for operational leasing.
According to the company’s website, its fleet includes more than 3.5 thousand vehicles.
Avis Ukraine, a company operating in the car rental and leasing market, has launched a new product – car leasing for individuals, according to its Facebook page.
“All our lives before that, we were engaged in organizing entire fleets of hundreds of cars on lease to large corporations. Before the war, we decided to start leasing cars for individuals as well, for several months we developed a product in order to bring it to the market enchantingly. Launched. Not enchanting. Absolutely not the way they wanted. Without a website and marketing. They just took it and launched it,” the company wrote.
She reports that the car can be taken on a long-term lease – for 2-3 years, while the monthly payment will be lower than when renting, and the company takes care of all issues with the acquisition, registration, maintenance, replacement and storage of tires, and even the sale .
“For example, a Toyota Yaris on a machine leased for two years will cost $399 per month,” Avis Ukraine reports.
“Avis Ukraine” has been operating in Ukraine since 1997, it is the representative of the world’s largest car rental corporation AVIS, which, according to information on its Facebook page, has 7642 branches in 185 countries of the world. Branches of “Avis Ukraine” were opened in Kyiv, Borispol, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lvov, Odessa, Uzhgorod and Kharkov.
