New Business Development Manager for UK Pallets

Joining UK Pallets as Business Development Manager is Joy Parkes.

Joy, who lives in Nottingham, will be based at the UK Pallets National Distribution Centre in Fradley Park, Lichfield, and will have a national role with particular responsibility for developing major accounts.

Joy comes to UK Pallets after nearly 6 years with Pall Ex where she was Business Development Manager, having previously worked as Network Development Manager. She was attracted to UK Pallets because of its position within the Business Post Group and the opportunities that opens up to meet a much wider range of customer distribution and logistics needs.

As well as the development of new business with major users, Joy will also be supporting the UK Pallets partner network in their sales development and will be involved in the partner recruitment process.

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For more information, contact Bill Wallis, Business Post Group.
Tel: 0121 335 1190
Email: [email protected]

Note to editors:

UK Pallets is the express palletised freight delivery business within the Business Post Group. It provides a nationwide UK and European delivery service through a partnership with over 70 independent haulage businesses across the UK and key partners in Europe. UK Pallets works closely with other Group companies to provide a total distribution solution for users. It was acquired by Business Post in July 2003 and is responsible for 10% of Group turnover.

Business Post Group operates through a network of nearly 140 locations across the UK. Of these approximately 30% are franchised and half are partners in the UK Pallets network. The Group and its associates employ over 5,000 people. A fleet of more than 3,000 vehicles is responsible for the movement of over 150,000 consignments every working day.

Express is the Group’s core UK business-to-business parcel service accounting for 60% of Group turnover with an estimated 7.5% market share.

International accounts for 12% of group turnover and is responsible for all shipments coming into and leaving the UK and Ireland. A high proportion of its activity derives from Business Post’s agreement with FedEx.

HomeServe, the Group’s UK business-to-consumer parcel service, provides high quality time-definite service to residential addresses. It accounts for 10% of Group sales and last financial year increased its turnover by 129%.

UK Today is the Group’s same day nationwide courier and logistics service. UK Today increased its turnover by 48% in the last financial year

BXTech is a technical courier specialising in field service logistics and is active in the computer, medical and utilities sectors. It was acquired as BXT in 2003. Together UK Today and BXTech make up Group’s Courier division.

UK Mail is the first company to offer an alternative postal delivery service in nearly 400 years of postal history. Following extensive negotiations with Royal Mail over downstream access to their delivery network, an agreement was reached in February, 2004 and the service began in May, 2004.

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