Tag: Europe

Meachers transport to manage complete supply chain for Rexam Webster

Posted by | Aug 27, 2001 | |

Meachers Transport is to run a complete supply chain operation from initial collection through to final distribution for cosmetics packaging company Rexam Webster.
Around 100 containers a month arriving at Southampton will be devanned, palletised and stored at Meachers warehouse complex in the port ready for picking, labelling and distribution to customers throughout the UK. Products will then be forwarded to Rexam Websters customers, including blue-chip names such as Coty, Avon and Procter & Gamble.
The contract was awarded following Rexam Websters decision earlier this year to consolidate production of its lipstick, deodorant stick and compact case packaging in France and the Far East.

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Exel awarded 5 month contract by Mars

Posted by | Aug 27, 2001 | |

Exel has been awarded a five-month contract by Mars Confectionary to handle the companys full range in the build up to Christmas. It is inaticipated that some 1.5 million cases will pass through Exels hub in Banbury, Oxfordshire, with more than 5,500 pallets being held in store.

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Slowdown in telecoms gets integrators talking

Posted by | Aug 27, 2001 | |

Integrators are notoriously reluctant to reveal who their customers are, or to talk about slowing business. But the well-publicised worldwide downturn in the telecoms market, one of Finland’s biggest exports, has brought them out of the closet.
Henrik Lindahi, DHL Finland’s commercial manager, says: “There is a decrease in demand in the hi-tech market. Shipments of heavy machinery that support the telecoms industry have more or less disappeared.”
DHL offers a next-day service throughout Europe, a same-day to Germany, the UK and Nordic countries and operates two nightly flights out of Helsinki to Brussels and Cologne. Connections to the other key Finnish markets are through Copenhagen, with a nightly flight stopping at Tampere, in central Finland, and Oulu, the northern city at the heart of Finland’s telecoms industry.

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