White Clarke Group (WCG) has moved its Australian base to new premises at 181 Miller Street in North Sydney to support the company’s significant growth in the region.

The Japan Automotive Leasing Association (JALA) has announced that Sofico Services Japan has been accepted as an associate member of the Tokyo Automotive Leasing Association (TALA), only the second foreign company ever to achieve the distinction.

The PHH Arval Global Alliance has expanded its reach to include Australia and New Zealand with the addition of sgfleet, a major provider of fleet management, leasing and salary packaging solutions in the area.

AutoChina International, China's largest commercial vehicle sales, servicing, leasing and support network, has announced that it entered into 1,725 new leases of commercial vehicles (primarily Class 8 heavy trucks) as part of the company's sales-type leasing programme in the first quarter of 2012, compared to 2,559 in the first quarter of 2011.

Dublin-based aircraft lessor, AWAS, has announced that it has agreed to place two additional Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft from its new order pipeline with Solaseed Air. Both aircraft will deliver to Solaseed in the second half of 2013.