All three German road hubs of TNT Express have been certified under the TAPA “A” ranking since the start of July. TAPA certifications are considered world-wide as the most important and most meaningful safety standards in the transportation industry.
The road hub in Hanover was the first to receive this certificate in November last year. The two hubs in Wiesbaden and Nuernberg were also successfully audited at the end of June.
Read MoreThe government has postponed a decision on whether Royal Mail should be able to give a stake of up to 20% in the firm to its employees, the BBC has learned.
It may be seen as partial victory for communication workers’ union, the CWU.
The union has been campaigning against what it sees as a step towards the privatisation of the postal service.
Read MoreRoyal Mail is preparing to review its 40m GBP media planning and buying account, held by Carat. The statutory review is expected to begin in the next two weeks.
The review will also include the company’s data and digital accounts, which are handled by Proximity London, and it is thought that it will extend to the media planning and buying for the Post Office, which is also handled by Carat.
Read MoreDespite having been chief executive of United Utilities (UU) for only a few months and not having a background in the utilities sector, Philip Green already has some firm ideas on the direction in which he wants to take the business.
Green came to United from Anglo-Dutch container shipping company P&O Nedlloyd, where he led a flotation of the company before it was acquired by the Danish transport giant AP Moller-Maersk. Prior to that, he had held the position of chief operating officer at news agency Reuters and, earlier, parcel firm DHL.
Read MoreDuring the past six months, IMRG has undertaken a major study of the way the internet is affecting
consumer spending. To augment its IMRG Index data, which collects hard sales data each month
from a large pool of e-retailers whose sales represent a quarter of the UK market by value, IMRG
consulted widely with leading Government and commercial agencies, and commissioned
eDigitalResearch to conduct a series of surveys, including a consumer survey that collected 3,900
responses. The key findings are as follows.
§ £80 billion of consumer spending is either ON OR INFLUENCED BY the internet, of which:
§ £30 billion of RETAIL SPENDING* is online – a quarter of this is travel
§ £20 billion of OTHER CONSUMER SPENDING ** is online (Note: this value is difficult to
quantify, and is believed to be a minimum)
§ a further £30 billion of OFFLINE RETAIL sales is impacted by internet information, research or
stimuli
§ 10% of retail sales now take place online
§ e-retail sales have grown at an average year-on-year rate of 45% for the past 6 months
§ e-retail sales have grown 2,000% in 6 years
§ 44% of shoppers polled expect their online shopping to increase in the next 12 months
§ 90% had researched goods online then bought them offline
§ 73% assume that an item available on a retailer’s website will also be in their stores
§ 47% assume that if goods are not available in a retailer’s online store they won’t be in their
physical store either
§ 52% of consumers plan to reduce their high street spending in 2006
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