UK Amtrak’s GBP2.5m deal

Bristol delivery company Amtrak Express Parcels has won a £25 million contract from Warmley firm Kleeneze.

The deal means that for the next five years Amtrak will deliver goods to Kleeneze customers the day after they are ordered.

Amtrak believes the contract is the biggest next-day home delivery contract ever placed.

Most of the deliveries will be for Kleeneze Europe, which has seen its sales grow from £20 million to £90 million in seven years.

The company mainly sells its household and health products through a network of 14,000 home-based distributors who go door-to-door with the Kleeneze catalogue.

But in recent years it has also moved into sales over the internet and home-shopping television.

It says this new deal will include deliveries to its distributors but will also expand those other areas of the business.

William Rollason, Kleeneze chief executive, said: “We look forward to another five years of sustained growth and we are very pleased to have Amtrak onboard to undertake our deliveries.

“We see this as a key partnership that will help us develop other areas of our business such as e-retailing and TV home shopping, where a first-rate home delivery service is really important.”

The contract will see Amtrak deliver 9,000 parcels a night after collection from Kleeneze’s Bristol distribution centre.

Amtrak and Kleeneze have worked together for several years and the new contract comes on the back of that existing relationship.

Kim Rawson, deputy managing director of Kleeneze Europe, said: “Kleeneze has quadrupled in size in just seven years and now has sales of £90 million a year. A key part of that growth has been down to Amtrak.

“Their ability to adapt and deliver the service we need has been key to our success.”