Business Express has won a new home delivery contract with Ocean Home Shopping. Gary Grindlay, Oceans operations director says: We are strongly committed to upholding high business standards across every element of the business, and it is essential we work with a home delivery partner that matches that.
Read MoreNeed to deliver a load from Glasgow to Brighton without moving it all the way yourself? Membership of a pallet network may be the solution. Pallet networks are now one of the fastest growing parts of the haulage market. Yet the first company was created only ten years ago this month.
Since the first, more have followed, turning the industry from one company to a sector in its own right. And its now a very successful sector. Along the way the pallet networks have increased the efficiency of haulage, and have enabled many smaller, local companies to survive.
TPG NV said it expects net income from continuing operations to grow 5-10 pct in 2002 due to a ‘challenging’ economic climate. In 2001, sales rose 12.9 pct to 11.218 bln eur from 9.936 bln in 2000 and operating income increased to 1.128 bln eur from 979 mln. Net profit from continuing operations, i.e. excluding the profit on the sale of non-core business, up 21.2 pct to 555 mln eur from 458 mln. This equates to an EPS of 1.23 eur compared to 0.99 a year earlier.
Read MoreRESIDENTS are being kept in the dark over post offices closures, according to a watchdog group. Members of the newly-formed Aberdeen and North-east Postwatch Scotland fear for the future of rural post offices.
Read MoreDeutscher Paket Dienst (DPD), the German postal service provider, is aiming to improve its position on the country’s market by expanding its network. It aims to increase the number of packages it delivers this year, from 355 million to 434 million, and will increase all prices by 5 per cent from the start of April.
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