Gray & Osbourn, ladieswear home shopping operator, has doubled its warehouse capacity requirement with pre-retail garment logistics specialists DTS Logistics to over 25,000 sq ft in order to cope with growing business volumes.
Read MoreLevi Strauss & Co, clothing supplier, has awarded Tibbett & Britten a multi-million pound contract to provide 4th party logistics solutions for inbound transportation to Levi Strauss Europe, Middle East & Africa across Western and Central Europe.
Read MoreChildrens Warehouse, childrens products supplier and gift supplier Initial Ideas have both appointed London home delivery specialist Beck & Call to handle home shopping deliveries for customers living in the centre of the capital.
Read MoreSpanish express courier MRW posted a turnover of 390.2 mln euro ($424.7 mln) in 2002, up 12.2 pct year-on-year, it was reported on February 5, 2003.
The company plans to increase the turnover in 2003 between 10 and 15 pct. MRW opened 25 offices in 2002 and closed the year with a total of 31 directly managed and 661 franchised offices in Spain.
Read MoreOn a low sales volume of around 4 million items the turnover went up to 98.14m euros, which represents a 1.6% increase compared to 2001. The net profit went up by 9.4%. Further details would not be revealed, a company spokeswoman declared.
Read MoreWHILE the Royal Mail is striving to cut its costs, it seems that its critics at Postwatch have caught the spending habit. Since Royal Mail has to fund its own watchdog, it would be understandable if it felt more than a little aggrieved that the bill has been rising and reached Pounds 7 million last year.
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The European Commission said it has sent a formal notice to the Netherlands concerning its shareholding laws covering KPN NV Royal and TPG NV.
The commission said the shareholding laws prevent other companies taking over KPN and TPG which were formerly state owned.
Read MoreThe Postal Public Corp. projects a 1.13 trillion yen (US$9.43 billion) net profit for its savings operations and a 2.6 billion yen net loss for mail services in the first year of business, according to a plan approved by a government council Tuesday.
The council charged with creating the public corporation also decided that no new funds from the postal savings and postal life insurance systems would be allocated to trust banks for investment in stocks.
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