TNT Home, the home delivery arm of TNT Logistics UK, has expanded its business with furniture marketing and design specialist, Scan-Thors (UK), the exclusive supplier to Debenhams retail stores. From July, TNT Home will undertake the home delivery of Scan-Thors’ cabinet furniture, in addition to the upholstery that it has been delivering throughout the UK since January this year.
Read MoreThe Royal Mail is planning to open post offices at WH Smith stores.
Under the partnership deal proposal, WH Smith will integrate post offices into their retail stores. Post Office programme director Byron Roberts said: “This partnership between two trusted organisations is good news for customers and will enable us to both safeguard and enhance their Post Office services in the future.
“WH Smith Retail’s huge experience and knowledge will ensure that Post Office customers continue to receive a high standard of service.”
Read MoreFedEx has delivered a vote of confidence in Airbus’s troubled A380 superjumbo, saying it remains committed to the aircraft and expects its order to be completed on schedule.
Fred Smith, chairman and chief executive, said, while the latest delays to the A380 were “a source of concern”, FedEx had been assured its 10 aircraft would not be affected. “We’re confident,” he told the FT. “They have told us that ours are going to arrive on time.”
The comments followed Airbus’s warning that deliveries of the A380 passenger jet would be delayed by an additional six or seven months, prompting demands for compensation by airlines and causing at least one customer to rethink its order.
Read MoreFedEx Express and Geodis signed an operational agreement for a 3 year period. “Through this agreement Fedex acknowledges Geodis’s position as the leading domestic express network in France and a supplier with a high level of service quality, as a result of our Total Customer Satisfaction policy. We will draw on our industrial resources, exclusive Track & trace system and our commitment to permanent innovation to manage these operations”, said Denis Zimmer, Senior Vice-president French regions at Geodis. As of January 1st, 2007 Geodis will perform through its domestic Express groupage network pick-ups and deliveries for FedEx customers in designated areas in France, not directly served by FedEx.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service Inc. and the US Postal Service reached agreement on a deal that will put mail on planes of the package-delivery company and could improve the post office’s reliability. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter said. Terms of the arrangement call for UPS to begin flying mail for the Postal Service on Saturday, in what could generate revenue of more than USD100 million a year for UPS, the report said.
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