EXEL’S Tankfreight subsidiary has won a four-year British bulk distribution contract with Rhodia, the specialty chemicals company.
This contract will involve the transfer of more than 40 drivers from the Staveley and Avonmouth depots of Suttons Transport, the previous logistics supplier.
Read MorePost Office parent company Consignia today confirmed it will shed up to 250
jobs as part of a massive call centre closure plan. The organisation is to shut 59 of its 70 sites across the country, which
handle around a million customer inquiries a month.
ROYAL MAIL has reached a breakthrough agreement with postal workers to
head off the prospect of damaging strikes across London. Members of the Communications Workers Union have voted overwhelmingly to
accept plans to close the antiquated Almeida Street mail centre in Islington.
Retail giant WH Smith first announced its intention to sell its troubled distribution business in March this year. The news was not unexpected: a trading statement for the 20 weeks to 20 January 2001 reported a ‘disappointing’ performance in the news distribution unit, with growth static at 1%. The retailer’s distribution division also came under fire last year for plans to form an exclusive national arrangement with Tesco for distributing magazines.
WH Smith put an end to this strategy in January this year, and hinted about selling off the division a few months later. Future plans for WH Smith News, the UK’s largest wholesaler of newspapers and magazines, still hangs in the balance, although the company insists it is “business as usual”.
Royal Mail is to launch a consultancy service to provide advertisers
with advice on how to use direct response media as part of a brand’s
marketing mix. The service, to be unveiled next month, forms part of the
Consignia-owned company’s attempts to woo advertisers and their
agencies by offering services beyond its traditional mail delivery
operation.
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