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It has been quite a rise to fortune for John Griffin as, in the Seventies, he was forced to ditch his apprenticeship as an accountant and turn to mini cabbing in order to make ends meet and rescue his father's business.
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Carlyle Europe Partners managing director Andrew Burgess said he was keen to roll out Addison Lee to other cities in the UK which could benefit from the cabbie's use of apps and technology that creates such an "efficient dispatch" system,[url=http://www.louboutinoutlet.it/]christian louboutin[/url].
Internationally, Addison Lee already has burgeoning joint ventures in Paris and New York and the younger Griffin said that Carlyle's deep international experience it has 33 offices around the world would help Addison Lee make major breakthroughs overseas.
The cabbie is also looking to widen the range of accounts with blue chip corporates, which should mean that it will end up hiring more than the 4000 cab drivers that Addison Lee employs today.
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He added that people were safer taking taxis as they would be "sitting inside a protected space with impact bars and air bags and paying extortionate amounts of taxes on our vehicle purchase, parking, servicing, insurance and road tax".

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