NetDespatch drives prestige car rental online at Miles & Miles
21 August 2004

NetDespatch has developed an interactive website for the UK's largest independent chauffeur and prestige car hire company, Miles & Miles. Part of a specially-developed hosted service, NetDespatch has built a powerful database engine that manages tariffs, rates, vehicle information and images. The website includes an online reservation system which alerts administrators to new reservations immediately.

The NetDespatch development is particularly important for the car hire services. Offering executive and sports cars such as Jaguars and Porsches, prestige hire is a key growth area for Miles & Miles and together with the company's long-established chauffeur drive business has established Miles and Miles as a market leader in the provision of prestigious vehicles. Miles & Miles also operates AVIS Chauffeur Drive and recently launched an Executive Hire service. NetDespatch provides a single online information and reservation facility for all the chauffeur-drive and self-drive services.

NetDespatch provide a fully managed design and hosting service that allows the vehicle information on the web to be changed easily. This is essential as Miles & Miles continually update their fleet vehicles. The actual web pages themselves do not need to be updated, simplifying the whole process and ensuring the system is low maintenance. NetDespatch has also provided Miles & Miles with web marketing assistance including the lead generation through Google searches. This has been particularly successful for the Prestige car rental, attracting orders from around the world.

Miles & Miles chauffeurs with their Mercedes saloons, limousines and people carriers are a common site in the Capital and form part of a global network allowing customers to book chauffeurs at destinations around the world. The new Executive service offers a more cost effective ground transport solution with the same high standards as the chauffeur service using Volvo S80 cars.