Willenhall-based parcels carrier Nightfreight has invested pounds 2.4 million to streamline its operations. It has made improvements across the board including in collection, sorting, hubs and delivery. The firm, which went through a secondary management buyout in June last year, said the aim was to go for growth by re-designing and re-engineering the product offering to ensure customers received a top quality service.
Read MoreThe costs of running postal regulator Postcomm have soared from pounds 6.5m to pounds 9.04m in the last year, the organisation’s annual report has revealed.
A spokesman said yesterday that the increased cost was due to employing larger numbers of consultants as well as an increase in staff numbers. However, Postcomm, which makes decisions such as whether Royal Mail can put up the price of stamps, spent less money than it had expected because of the delay of some expected consultations. The spokesman said that Postcomm expects to spend the same amount next year although it hopes to employ fewer consultants and more staff. “The sort of people we need are very specialist.” It spent over pounds 5m on consultants last year compared with just over pounds 2m the year before.
Royal Mail pays for much of the cost of running its regulator, although as other firms begin to use licences for delivering the mail they will also contribute to the running costs.
TNT has acquired the Dutch print and mailing house Euro Mail through Cendris, part of TPG Post. The positioning of Euro Mail is geared to Direct Marketing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), adding an important and valuable range of products and services to the portfolio of TPG Post and Cendris. Euro Mail reported sales of EUR29 million in 2004. The company employs 116 people at ten operational sites across the Netherlands. Euro Mail specialises in mailing activities (enveloping, addressing, sorting and distribution), print services, fulfilment and other DM activities, including data and consultancy. Euro Mail primarily serves small, locally operating businesses, but in recent years has added a number of larger companies to its customer base.
Read MoreJapan Post said Friday 20 asset management companies have proposed a total of 23 investment trusts for its plan to sell funds through post offices. Japan Post has solicited fund schemes as it plans to sell three types of low-risk investment trusts — an investment product similar to a mutual fund – through part of its post office network, starting in October.
Read MoreDHL Express Vietnam opened its first quality control center in Vietnam on July 7. The center in Tan Binh District, HCM City, is the first of the quality control centers to be set up by DHL in the country. Ephakol Ponstabhon, country manager of DHL Express Vietnam, said new technologies would be applied at the center to ensure shipment information would be available quickly on the network.
Read MoreBob Russett has severed his relationship with Palletline, the pallet network which he is largely credited with forming and of which he was chairman until late last year. He had stayed on in the position of president, a role that was never clearly defined.
Read MoreAmtrak Express Parcels has secured a contract to become the sole overnight carrier for electrical goods retailer EmpireDirect.co.uk delivering up to 25,000 parcesl a month on next-day home delivery.
Read MoreDeutsche Post AG’s express services and logistics company DHL plans to buy local logistics companies in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, BNS news agency said. Managing director of DHL Express Nordics Bill A. Blomquist said the company plans to expand in the Baltic countries. ‘This will happen through organic growth and takeover of local logistics companies,’ he said. Blomquist said the process has already started and talks with local companies are underway.
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