For over 20 years, mama luigi Limited has been delivering, to customers across the UK, all the ingredients – and even some of the equipment as well – for making mouth-watering pizzas.
The Chester-based company serves a diverse customer base including educational and healthcare establishments, leisure venues and stadia, business and industry, and outdoor televised events – including, notably, the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002.
To get the supplies through, the company operates a mixed fleet of cars, vans and trucks – including 3.5 and 7.5 tonne vehicles – and so fuel costs represent a significant item on their list of overheads. Like any fleet operator, they are not immune to the long, steady rise in pump prices. This trend could easily have taken a few toppings off their commercial success, were it not for one wise decision they made several years ago when they first signed up to abbey Fuelcards.
Mama always knows best, and, alongside the healthy-eating nutritional qualities of her wide range of food products, she had also recognised a financially healthy recipe in the abbey fuelcard service.
By giving ‘her’ drivers the abbey euroshell cards, mama luigi has consistently saved substantial cumulative costs on fuel via a consistent low price (notified by abbey in advance) for each period of 7 consecutive days wherever their vehicles might be in the country. Typically this is several pence per litre below the actual prices shown on the pumps.
abbey also struck an approving chord with mama luigi because of its priority focus on unrivalled customer service. abbey’s all-inclusive support – including comprehensive reports and analyses, site location services, card security and administrative efficiency – provided exactly the kind of confidence, peace of mind and dependability which is at the core of mama luigi’s own operating philosophy.
John Hopkins, the company’s owner and founder (and self-styled 'mama luigi’s godfather') has nothing but praise for abbey:
' We’ve taken great care to develop and sustain a reputation for delivering the highest quality products and excellent service to our customers – and, in abbey, we’ve seen an identical commitment. We have been completely happy with abbey for many years. They are always helpful, and on the rare occasions when there has been any problem, however slight, it has always been dealt with immediately. '