TNT NV’s TNT Post has won a two year contract from Intergamma BV to distribute flyers for Intergamma’s home improvement chains the company said.
Financial details were not disclosed.
TNT said the contract was an extension of past agreements and involves the regular distribution of door-to-door flyers from the Gamma and Karwei store chains with a combined circulation of 10.3 mln copies.
Read MoreRoyal Mail today confirmed that online retailer Amazon has decided it will move its Second Class mailings, worth £8m, from Royal Mail.
Royal Mail said, “We’re very proud to work with Amazon and the loss of such a significant piece of their business demonstrates very clearly that Royal Mail’s higher costs, directly caused by our failure to fully modernise our operations, are costing us business. It’s vital that we urgently change and modernise if we are to be able to compete against more efficient rivals who have already done so.
“At the same time our customers are being threatened with disruption because of strikes – strikes which are aimed at preventing exactly the modernisation that could keep our big customers on board.
“Customers like Amazon are critical to us, and to our competitors. They represent an important area of growth in a market which is otherwise declining as fewer items of mail are sent.”
Read MoreFedEx Express, the world’s largest express transportation company, has announced the winners of the Second Annual Courier of the Year Competition for Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
The FedEx Courier of the Year Award is a unique recognition program that enables those in the best position to evaluate customer service and to select the winner. Customers voted online for their respective FedEx courier, based on their politeness, presentation and helpfulness.
For Abu Dhabi, the Courier of the Year is Thomas Leo and for Dubai, Eloi Oandasan.
In addition to the prestige of winning the Courier of the Year Award, both couriers received a cash prize and an additional week’s holiday.
Read MoreGoogle Inc., owner of the most- popular Internet search engine, is offering discounts to customers of its online payment service who ship items with FedEx Corp., stepping up competition with EBay Inc.
Merchants using Google Checkout can save as much as 21 percent on express shipments, which are delivered in one to three business days, Mountain View, California-based Google said today on its Web log. Smaller discounts are available for international, ground and home deliveries.
“With the addition of significant shipping-via-FedEx savings, Google now offers merchants an even more compelling reason to adopt Google Checkout,” Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster said in a report. He rates the shares “outperform.”
The accord follows a similar agreement last week between EBay, which has a rival service to Google’s, and United Parcel Service Inc. EBay, the world’s largest online auctioneer, decided last year it wouldn’t offer Checkout as a payment option on its sites. Last week it also reduced advertising spending with Google.
Google unveiled Checkout a year ago as part of a plan to expand beyond its Internet-search business. The company added the service in the U.K. in April.
Read MoreGeodis has strengthened its services to Hong Kong and China, following the recent acquisition of TNT Freight Management (TFM) which doubled Geodis’ exporting capacity in Asia. The company intends to incorporate Geodis Overseas, its existing air and sea freight activities, under the Geodis Wilson umbrella before the end of this year.
“Geodis has traditionally had a strong presence in Hong Kong and China,” said Jamie Cuthbert, managing director of Geodis UK, “and the scope of our organisation has grown significantly since the acquisition of TFM. We now have 210,000 square feet of warehousing space and 620 employees across our nine offices throughout the region. With the pooled volumes this has brought, we have further enhanced our offering to the market-place. The deal has allowed us to implement an even more competitive pricing structure, increase the frequency of our services and provide a greater coverage of the region.
Geodis Wilson’s air freight service out of the region operates direct consolidated air shipments on a daily basis. For sea freight, the company functions as a Non Vessel Owning Common Carrier (NVOCC).
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