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Cost-efficiency push fuels consolidation

Posted by | Oct 1, 2001 | |

Automotive Logistics

Automotive manufacturing is concentrating on the development of single-site sourcing and transnational production, requiring a wider range of capabilities from logistics contractors, and investment, ” said Tibbett & Britten chairman and CEO John Harvey, while announcing the group’s withdrawal from the sector, back in May, with the sale of its £150m (€239m) turnover Axial automotive logistics subsidiary to AutoLogic.
According to Harvey, the group has grown so much that “the competition for financial and management resources has made it increasingly difficult to give Axial the focus necessary to develop the business”.

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Post Danmark in alliance with Deutsche Post

Posted by | Oct 1, 2001 | |

Post Danmark, the Danish post office, is holding talks with Deutsche Post, its German counterpart, regarding a collaboration agreement. Jacob Buksti, the Danish transport minister, has confirmed that the two are holding talks and that negotiations may be completed in only a few weeks time. Post Danmark will solve its problems from three weeks ago, when Posten of Sweden dashed Post Danmark’s hope of a Nordic parcel alliance by pulling out of Pan Nordic Logistics, the Scandinavian logistics company owned by the three Scandinavian post offices. Posten entered an alliance with La Poste of France instead.

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John Lewis picks iForce to deliver for expanded online store

Posted by | Oct 1, 2001 | |

John Lewis rolled out its new and much-expanded online shopping site, www.johnlewis.com, earlier this month, and has appointed iForce to handle fulfilment for the operation.
The logistics contract, which runs initially for three and a half years, is being described as one of the largest and most prestigious in the efulfilment sector to be awarded by a UK retailer so far. No precise measure is being put on this, but the job is known to involve 5,000 stock-keeping units initially, and could run to 25,000 eventually.

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Nightspeed wins contract with DTP

Posted by | Oct 1, 2001 | |

Computer distributor DTP supplies has awarded Nightspeed a £250,000 contract to deliver computer equipment to schools and businesses across the country, as well as providing next day delivery.

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