Share offer at UPN
United {Pallet Network is to add member with the carrot of share options for members becoming available in 12 to 24 months time. Simon Hazelgrove, who joined from UK Pallets this month as national sales director, says there are still many well-established hauliers who are not in a network and who will find the share offer an extra attraction.
UPN has 55 members, some with larege deliver areas. It has a 3 year strategy to et into the Premier League with the focus on quality and sutainable volume growth, he syas. A new IT ystem will be rolled out in June giving customers tracking and online POD signature capture. The network will be enthusiasic ans want to adopt the system: getting the network on board is all about how such develpmetns are presented, he says.
The system has mostly been developed in house.
UPNs business model is member-friendly Hazelgrove says. Asked if he will be trying to poad fro his former network, he tells MT: I certainly wont look a gift-horse in the mouth. If I am approached, Ill certainly folow up the enquiry.
UPN chairman Maretyn Lowe apponte Hazelgrove along with another senior UK Pallets executive, Andrew Lowe, who is national service manager, in a double move to strengthen UPNs management.
