50% rise in turnover for ByBox
ByBox, the UK’s largest in-night delivery company, has seen turnover increase by 50 per cent to £15m in the past 12 months following several significant new business wins.
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ByBox is doing the business by night
ByBox, the UK’s largest in-night delivery company, has increased its turnover by 50% to GBP15m (EUR22m) in the past 12 months following a string of business wins. New customers include Danka, Bunzl Vending Services, Agfa, Tunstall Telecom and British Gas. The Coventry-based company, which has locker banks at more than 700 locations across the UK to which access is controlled by a built-in computer, provides logistics services to field engineers.
Read MoreDrop-box solutions are gaining ground
An unattended delivery system for which Business Post now has the UK licence, called eBox, is on trial with several hundred customers.
Three sizes of eBox are available, taking deliveries or outbound shipments of up to 20kg. Business Post claims this makes the system suitable for the B2B sector as well as its HomeServe customers, such as service engineers and party planners. The company hopes by this means to reduce the problem of failed deliveries.
Drop-box solutions are gaining ground
An unattended delivery system for which Business Post now has the UK licence, called eBox, is on trial with several hundred customers.
Three sizes of eBox are available, taking deliveries or outbound shipments of up to 20kg. Business Post claims this makes the system suitable for the B2B sector as well as its HomeServe customers, such as service engineers and party planners. The company hopes by this means to reduce the problem of failed deliveries.
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UK online retail sales are now growing at 10 times the rate of traditional retail. However, with this confidence comes a desire and an impatience to have goods delivered on the customer’s terms, not the e-tailer’s. This means that the number of ways in which merchants fulfil demand must increase accordingly, adding a new layer of complexity to the process. One of the fastest growing sectors addressing this issue is the drop- box market. These secure delivery boxes allow goods to be delivered at any time, for consumers to pick up at their convenience.
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