TNT Logistics North America has appointed Stan Czeczotka manager of business development in its growing automotive logistics sector. He will be responsible for new business development for logistics services within the Tier 1 supplier ranks for automotive manufacturers. Czeczotka spent the last 15 years in the Tier 1 automotive community, working in the plastics, stamping, sensor and instrument-manufacturing industries.
Read MoreParcel delivery service TNT Express has revealed it is talking to media agencies about its planning and buying business.
Andrew Huestis, the marketing and communications director of TNT Express, said the company was shortlisting agencies for the account and has yet to decide if the work will be on a European or international level. It is not known how much the account will be worth.
The news comes as the Netherlands-based business hired Wieden & Kennedy to its international advertising account following a competitive pitch against rivals including Bartle Bogle Hegarty. There was no incumbent on the account, although TNT has worked with J Walter Thompson in the past.
Read MoreBuoyed by initial road-test results and significant technological advancements, UPS today announced the U.S. deployment of its first three large package delivery vehicles utilizing hydrogen fuel cells for power. “Shifting away from a fossil fuel based economy to a hydrogen economy would be a great environmental and technological achievement,” said Chris Mahoney, UPS senior vice president of global transportation services. “UPS now is jumping from a small fuel cell car to a medium-duty truck. We will continue the rapid application of this technology in hopes that in the near future, we can deploy zero-emission engines across our fleet of 88,000 vehicles.”
Read MorePalletways is set to announce significantly improved profit levels as well as rapid growth for 2003/4, new chief executive and shareholder James Wilson revealed last week. He confirmed also that there were several investment companies interested in buying into the firm, apart from Phoenix Equity, which is now the major shareholder, having bought out 3i. The strong financial performance last year will be detailed shortly when results are filed at Companies House and was part of the appeal to its new owners. Phoenix Equity has secured leases on sheds next to the hub at Fradley Park, Lichfield, which will ensure that there is plenty of room for rapid expansion over the next three years. By contrast, Wilson questions the ability of some competitors to expand much further without substantial investment.
Read MoreThe Pallet Network is set to exchange contracts on a new hub within weeks. Chairman Richard Eldred says the East Midlands site will retain the drive-through concept.
We are trying to go for a quick exchange of contracts he says.TPN is moving a record 3,500 pallets a night. That record will be obliterated in the run-up to Christmas, he says.
Norway Post Group’s earnings before taxes for the first six months of 2004 were NOK 450 million, an improvement of NOK 449 million compared with the same period last year. The improvement is the result of growth in revenues and of cost savings. Norway Post, in other words, meets its owner’s requirements for return on investments. At the same time, the delivery quality is higher than ever. “The results show that we have succeeded in improving profitability and developing competitive products and services. Thanks to hard work on service improvements and streamlining, Norway Post is on schedule when it comes to facing full competition in the postal market from 1 January 2007,” says Norway Post’s Chief Executive Kaare Frydenberg.
Read MoreThe management of postal services in Trinidad and Tobago will be taken over by locals, come August 31. The change will bring to an end a five-year contract between the Trinidad and Tobago Government, and Transcend Worldwide Limited, a New Zealand Consortium. The change to local management ends a five-year contract, signed in February 1999, between the T&T Government and Transcend Worldwide Limited to run the postal services in the country. Confirmation of the change came on Friday from Public Utilities Minister, Pennelope Beckles who told the Express that “the present management will subsist until August 2004 by agreement of both parties.”
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