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Play time at CPD
Warwickshire based CPD Logistics has won a £2million with toy distrubutor Bandai UK.
The conract will see the companys annual turnover through the £10 million ceiling and create 20 jobs.
Steve Booker, managing director of CPD Logistics, says: What is fantastic about this latest contract is that it came from personal recommendation from existing clients and major retailers, so you cant have a better testimonial to the quality of your service than that.
The new business means that CPD has taken on a further 4,092 sq m unit at Long Marston.
CPD Logistics, which now employs over 200 staff in ten warehouses, currently distributes toys including Power Rangers, Captain Scarlet and Digimon.
Extra care by Nightspeed
An increase in demand from its customers has prompted Nightspeed to intriduce Printspeed, a tailored service which claims to ensure damage free delivery of fragile sales and marketing print goods.
David Hughes, Printspeed manager, says: We are able to add to our former delivery-only service by completing fulfilment, labelling and despatch needs as well – its one-stop shopping really.
The service which creates 50 new jobs, will operate from Nightspeeds nationwide depot network.
Koizumi welcomes courier
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday welcomed a reported plan on postal-services deregulation.
Tokyo-based Sokuhai, established in 1984, delivers business items within a few hours for clients in the Tokyo and Osaka areas using 800 motorcycles and bicycles.
Commenting on the news report, a Sokuhai official said the company will have to decide whether to launch mail service after relevant ordinances are established following the bill’s parliamentary passage.
The postal deregulation bill would allow private firms to handle mail delivery on certain conditions including delivery within three hours.
Post watchdog delays delivery (Opinion)
ALLAN LEIGHTON has won his first important battle as chairman of Consignia and persuaded the postal regulator to delay the onset of competition in its core market.
His tactic was straightforward: he opened the books and showed just how precarious was the position the business had been allowed to deteriorate into under its previous management. “Frightening” was the word used by Postcomm’s Graham Corbett to describe the picture that Leighton put before him.
Read MorePostComm's independence in extremely good health
Graham Corbett, Postcomm chairman, denied yesterday that the postal regulator’s independence had been compromised by its retreat from controversial plans to open the market to competition.
“My independence and that of the commissioners feels in extremely good health,” he said.
He dismissed “absolutely” the idea that the regulator had retreated. “It is one of those ‘heads you win, tails you lose’ situations. Either we listened, in which case we were accused of backtracking, or we did not listen and we were accused of being stiff necks.”
Read MoreRoyal Mail monopoly: comment on delay
THE 12-MONTH delay in dismantling the Royal Mail’s monopoly, announced by the postal regulator yesterday, has bought Allan Leighton a little time, but it is not the triumph for the former Asda boss that some are suggesting. Considering all the blood curdling noises the Consignia chairman has made about the damage that competition will do to the business, a one-year stay of execution is small consolation.
Read MoreIndian Postal dept eyes 30% more from premium services
The Department of Posts hopes to earn Rs 586 crore from premium services during 2002-2003. In 2001-2002, the department achieved revenues of Rs 392.65 crore, a shade lower than the targeted revenue of Rs 400 crore.
According to informed sources, the Department of Posts’ aggregate revenue – including income from non-premium and non-value-added services – is expected to touch Rs 4,000 crore in the current fiscal, higher than the estimated Rs 3,400 crore earned in 2001-2002.
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