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Lynx expands, steps up B2C operations

Posted by | Apr 1, 2003 | |

Significant growth in business-to-consumer deliveries is planned for the coming year by Lynx Express, and the company is also extending its “in-night” delivery service for field engineers to collections from continental suppliers. Xerox is one of the first customers to benefit. To enhance its UK capacity, Lynx is spending £3.5 million on a new Vanderlande “shoe sorter” mechanised sortation machine, which will be installed on a mezzanine level in one of its two hubs at Nuneaton. Currently only one of these is mechanised. The new facility will double potential throughput to 400,000 shipments a night by next year. “We’re very confident in the future of the company,” managing director David Burtenshaw reported at a briefing in March, adding that there was no intention of selling its services cheaply to fill the extra capacity. “We’re not falling into that trap.”

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RS Components appoints A-Z Couriers

Posted by | Apr 1, 2003 | |

Online electrical components retailer RS Components has appointed Initial A-Z Couriers to deliver products ordered through its guaranteed same-day or next-day courier service. The annually renewable contract is based on RS Components Bow branch in Londons Docklands area and initially covers the South East region.

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Mail User Study – what is driving direct mail

Posted by | Apr 1, 2003 | |

Results of UK survey. Further studies will survey Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy. Survey objective is to identify which countries have been successful in developing their direct mail markets and why.
P:LIBRARYPostalMail Users Survey Spring 03. Postal Solutionsl.pdf

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Booming Metromail seals new contract

Posted by | Apr 1, 2003 | |

Direct mail specialist Metromail has taken on an extra 50 staff in the past six months and has just announced a new six-figure contract.

The Peterlee-based company now employs 270 people and aims to take on another 50 soon.

Its new contract has been secured with gardening supplies company Plantiflor, which will mean Metromail sending out an extra 10m mailing packs a year, on top of its current 175m total.

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EGL Inc. Acquires Miami International Forwarders

Posted by | Apr 1, 2003 | |

EGL, Inc. announced that it has acquired Miami International Forwarders (MIF) companies, a privately held international freight forwarder and customs broker based in Miami, Florida. MIF is among the market leaders in logistics in Florida with a specialty in apparel and a strong presence in the Caribbean and Central and South American markets. MIF is also very active in customs brokerage, ocean forwarding, warehousing and local pick-up and delivery services.

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Watery win

Posted by | Apr 1, 2003 | |

Nightspeed has won the quarter of a million pound a year contract to deliver OASE UK garden products to garden centres throughout the UK.

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UPS touts new Asia strategy

Posted by | Apr 1, 2003 | |

United Parcel Service Inc., fresh off a global rebranding effort, is unveiling a new approach to logistics in Asia. Dubbed “synchronized commerce,” the strategy treats three core aspects of the supply chain – movement of goods, information on the goods, and funding for those – as a single entity, said Ken Torok, president of UPS Asia Pacific. Saying “synchronized commerce is the next step in the evolution of trade,” Torok said the move is particularly relevant to Asia, where more than 90 percent of the economy comprises small- and medium-sized enterprises.

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DHL UAE launches unique 'Altitude' loyalty programme

Posted by | Apr 1, 2003 | |

DHL UAE, the Emirates leading air express provider, has launched a unique customer loyalty programme in response to extensive market demand. Key brands within the Emirates have tied up with DHL’s express Altitude scheme to deliver benefits on airline tickets, shopping as well as leisure activity vouchers.
“What sets Altitude apart is that this is the only, ongoing, long-term loyalty product available locally within the air express industry,” said David Wild, General Manager, DHL UAE.

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