Leasing & factoring
De Lage Landen is a Netherlands based international provider of high-quality asset finance and vendor finance programmes. The global offering also includes an array of commercial finance solutions.
With offices and joint ventures in more than 25 countries throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific, De Lage Landen specializes internationally in asset financing and vendor finance programs. The company focuses on the following industries: Food & Agriculture, Healthcare, Office Equipment, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Financial Institutions, Trucks & Trailers, Public Finance and Materials Handling & Construction Equipment. De Lage Landen also offers private label leasing programs for the Banking industry, and delivers a broad range of financial services to captive leasing organizations and non-banking financial institutions.
In the Netherlands, De Lage Landen offers a broad array of leasing and trade finance products through local Rabobanks and directly to the market. These products include Equipment Leasing, Car and Commercial Vehicle Leasing, ICT Leasing, Consumer Finance and Factoring.
Since 2006 Athlon Car Lease has been part of De Lage Landen Group. Athlon Car Lease is an international provider of operational car leasing, active in seven European countries. As from January 2007 De Lage Landen serves as competence center for the Rabobank Group for all consumer finance activities on the Dutch market.
De Lage Landen is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch Rabobank Group that is Triple-A rated by Moody’s and Standard & Poors. In 2006 De Lage Landen grew its net profit to to €206 million ($259 million) and its lease portfolio to €18.9 billion ($24.9 billion). By year-end 2006, De Lage Landen had 4,428 employees. De Lage Landen reports its figures in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
De Lage Landen services
De Lage Landen is one of Netherlands' leading car leasing companies. In case of more than ten vehicles, fleet management is a solution. De Lage Landen offers total service packages for business, personal and commercial vehicles.
The CarSelector (Dutch) is a digital tool to select a car and to submit an application online. With the FleetManager (Dutch) you can optimally organise your fleet of cars.
Technological developments within the ICT market are rapid, with the constant need for replacement and expansion putting considerable pressure on budgets. De Lage Landen has a customised financing solution for virtually any computerisation problem. We can offer solutions for hardware, software, applications, installations, implementation, training, networks and insurance. Which means that our partners can make use of their working capital, keep their operating costs intact and take advantage of new technological developments.
Trade Finance is a service developed by De Lage Landen to give you the financial scope to grow. Our services enable you to access money tied up in debt and commodities. Debtor financing means that you can get your money faster and the cost of such services can be recovered by making use of payment discounts given by suppliers and through bulk buying. Additionally, De Lage Landen offers credit management, the benefit of which is clearly visible in the shorter average debt term. This reduces not only interest charges but significantly decreases debtor risk.
More information about ICT-lease, trade finance and real estate finance (Dutch): www.delagelanden.nl; fleetmanagement (Dutch) www.translease.nl.
In today's competitive markets, keeping one step ahead of the rest involves a great deal more than simply providing the right product at the right price. Offering your customers Sales Financing and Leasing enables them to obtain your products in an easy and flexible way, keeping their bank lines of credit intact and avoiding the risks of ownership and obsolescence. In this way you broaden your portfolio of products and services while increasing your customer control and retention at the same time. More information about vendor finance: www.delagelanden.com