Sterling Worldwide Visit Notes
Sterling Worldwide Limited and UCS Sameday
2 October 2001
1. UCS Limited is now dissolved. Trading is through a company Sterling Worldwide, and UCS Sameday- a partnership.
2. The reason for the dissolution of UCS was that the EMI business, which this company handled was lost in a competitive tender. Paul Taylor, who managed this business in now an employee of Sterling and no longer has an equity participation in the Group.
3. The two other equity participants, Wayne Mcdonnell and Tony Barret remain in the Company and Partnership with Wayne having the controlling share.
4. The main client is now Cisco. UPS get their standard business but anything requiring special attention now goes to Wayne’s companies. This can be anything from retrieving laptops from redundant employees to delivering large pieces of telecomms equipment to the eighth floor (hiring a crane and arranging for traffic diversions).
5. The other clients are mixed and varied with and equally mixed range of work.
6. The premises are on a site owned by the Lane Group and within their perimeter fence.
7. We discussed Sky. By using scheduled flights Sky are unable to meet timescales required for express delivery in many areas. Sky quality is poor.
8. Wayne uses the integrators for uplift. He uses his own agents for local deliveries in mainstream places, otherwise he uses the integrator. He finds that the wholesalers offer poor quality and high prices. He wonders for how long they will survive.
