State-owned express carrier Parcelforce Worldwide is in crisis talks with its unions after taking a £201m hit in exceptional half year losses, compounded by a decade of losses and a £50m writedown 18 months ago.
Read MoreFor internationally operating firms in industry and commerce, the Fiege Group can offer integrated supply chain management with the same high quality standard in all the countries involved in a transaction. And, in cooperation with our customers, the reach of these products to an intercontinental level. Even now we are certainly one of the market leaders in contract l gistics. especially for warehouse management.
Read MoreEuropean supply chain solutions provider TDG has extended its long-standing partnership with UK retailer Littlewoods to include a new e-delivery operation. Under the £15m (t24m) deal, TDG will provide a 20,000sq metre storage and pick centre for catalogue and TV shopping channel orders within its multi-contract facility at Wrexham.
Read MoreCalls for Consignia to sell Parcelforce, its struggling package delivery arm, are increasing as losses continue to mount. “The business would be better off outside Consignia, because mail, parcels and retailing are separate businesses, ” said Paul Jackson, MD of parcels industry consultant Triangle. “They could consider a management buyout scheme.” Jackson said: “Problems are mounting in the rest of Consignia’s business, with the opening up of the letters market to competition and industrial relations problems. Consignia’s management won’t have time to sort Parcelforce’s problems out. The government does not need to be in the parcels business – or retailing for that matter. If Parcelforce wasn’t owned by Consignia, it would be a market leader today.”
Read MoreThe trial with Privver, the digital mailbox of Royal PTT Post, has proved successful. It showed a clear demand existed for the digital transmission of important pieces of mail, with PTT Post in a coordinating role. Starting today, Royal PTT Post will gradually increase the group of consumers able to receive mail via Privver.
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