CPD Logistics, the Warwickshire-based logistics and distribution company, has won its first
contract in the automotive field.The company will hold and supply car seat assemblies for Honda to be delivered daily on a just-in-time basis to Johnson Controls factory near Leamington Spa.
Belgian state railway SNCB is injecting t250m into its struggling logistics and forwarding unit, ABX Logistics. ABX will not disclose last year ‘s full financial performance until May, but communications director Emile Clemens confirmed to IFW that the group was in the red in 2001.
Read MoreRECENTLY I have been intensely irritated by media criticism of our wonderful post office service and thus heartily endorse every single word of the letter from Mr and Mrs Underhill which (WMN, February 6).
Let me give you a current example of the excellent service provided which is not untypical in my experience.
A letter sent by first class mail from the Lake District, postmarked 7.30pm, was delivered here in Tavistock by our friendly and helpful postman at 7.15am the following morning.
Are some of us never satisfied?
Read MoreIt would be stretching business theory a bit far to suggest that the recent deterioration in the postal service was the result of the change of name from Post Office to Consignia. But it clearly did not help. Even if there was no causal relationship between these events they were part of the same deterioration. You do not need a Harvard business degree to know it was totally batty to take well respected brands with international recognition, like Royal Mail and Post Office, and let corporate spin doctors turn them into names with no meaning and with nothing to do with the activities of the company.
Read MoreFIRST-CLASS stamps could leap in price to 40p and second class to 30p if mail delivery is opened up to greater competition, says Consignia.
The company, formerly the Post Office, claims that would be the result if rivals are allowed to operate in the profitable business mail market.
“At the moment letters sent from one side of London to the other subsidise Auntie Joan’s letter to the Shetlands, ” said a Consignia spokeswoman.
“But if we lose all the cheaper mail, the ability to subsidise will obviously be hit.
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