ANC Logistics has won its biggest contract yet with the giant electrical distributor Hagemeyer UK. the contract is worth £15 million over three years and ANCL will provide in – night, next day and same day distribution services for Newey and Eyre, the main distribution division of Hagemeyer.
Read MoreOn-demand business telephony and hosted contact centre services provider, NewVoiceMedia, is delighted that Parcelforce Worldwide is a finalist in the ‘Best Use of Technology’ award at the European Call Centre Awards at Call Centre Expo 2006.
Parcelforce Worldwide received this recognition for its Customs Charge Recovery System (CCRS) in a category where the judges’ criteria included uniqueness of implementation, financial benefit and a tangible improvement in customer experience, as well as enhancement in agent experience.
The CCRS, which was developed by NewVoiceMedia, enables Parcelforce Worldwide’s non-contract customers to pre-pay customs charges on international packages via the telephone or web prior to delivery, saving time for the company and the customers, reducing warehousing costs and improving cash flow.
Read MoreTNT NV said that its Logistics division has been awarded a five-year contract by US mailstream company Pitney Bowes. Financial details were not disclosed.
TNT will handle logistical services for Pitney Bowes from its site in Belgium from the fourth quarter onwards.
The TNT Logistics division was recently sold to Apollo and is awaiting completion of the sale.
Read MoreWhat a difference profit makes. Warehousing and delivery company Wincanton has just bought two companies with similar sales paying GBP 2 million for one and up to GBP 27 million for the other.
Lane, which delivers white and other household goods to your doorstep, fetched just GBP 2 million for its GBP 47 million of sales. Over-expansion had left the company making losses with debts of GBP 6 million which Wincanton (WIN) takes on.
Finance director Gerard Connell, who claims Wincanton is number two in logistics in the UK to Exel, says Lane provides a good ‘beach head’ to the fast-growing home delivery market. He admits home delivery companies have historically struggled to make money.
The other acquisition, RDL, specialises in delivering bricks and other building material for the likes of Hanson and Ibstock. In its last figures it made profits before interest and amortization of GBP 3.8 million on sales of GBP 57.6 million.
Connell says a number of big construction companies are expected to outsource their trucking and warehouse operations soon so there are plenty of opportunities.
Today TNT announced that ABB has chosen TNT Freight Management as its preferred provider for a number of air and sea freight destinations to and from Sweden, in keen competition with other major players in the market.
The contract runs over a year and has just started.The first step involves air and sea freight from Sweden to the whole world, and vice versa. “We will now focus on the fastest and smoothest implementation possible of all the processes related to this Swedish agreement. Both TNT and ABB agree that the vision is to expand co-operation globally with cross trading and so on,” says Kenneth Dahlgren, Global Account Manager at TNT Freight Management.
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