TNT Network Logistics has won a GBP4m (EUR5.8m), three-year contract with Toms UK for the warehousing and distribution of confectionery throughout the UK, and will also handle exports from the UK to the rest of the world.
Read MoreWalon UK has secured a three-year contract to distribute around 18,000 Kia cars a year, including the new Sorento, to dealerships nationwide.
Read MoreBibby Distribution is to move crystal and glassware from the Broxburn, Edinburgh, plant of Gleneagles Crystal via its Stoke site to customers such as Debenhams, House of Fraser and John Lewis.
Read MoreMassive new Fiat deal for TNT
Read MoreGeodis UK has launched a European express road service under the name Sprint.
Starting with deliveries to Germany, France and Benelux, the product offers guaranteed transit times, specific labelling and POD on request. Geodis plans to expand coverage to Italy and Spain later this year.
SkyNet Worldwide Express Netherlands has taken over the group’s London office, in which it already held a 50% stake. It bought the remaining shares from LanChile.
Read MoreClaude Béglé, CEO northern Europe for GeoPost, bucked the popular trend towards the logistics one-stop shop earlier this month by calling for more focus on the express industry. By working in a niche market, GeoPost was able to get business from logistics operators anyway, he said. “They come to us, but if we were in competition they would not. We want to concentrate on two services – parcels and international express.” International traffic contributed 8% to revenues last year and GeoPost is projecting a 10% increase this year.
Read MoreTNT Express is confident it can find an alternative US delivery network if its arrangement with Airborne falls through. TNT is not expecting to renew its partnership with Airborne when the contract expires in December 2004, following the acquisition of Airborne by DHL. But group MD Alan Jones said he has contingency plans if it proved impossible to see out the current contract.
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