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Retailers set to overhaul delivery options to maintain home shopping growth

Posted by | Oct 25, 2001 | |

Retailers in the UK are planning a major overhaul of their delivery strategies to ensure the home shopping boom continues, according to a survey released today by Consignia. The survey of 100 companies, which includes some of the UK’s largest home shopping retailers, revealed that 70% regard reliable delivery as the most important influence on the future growth of the market and delivery at a time and place convenient to the consumer was ranked as the second most important factor by 58% of respondents. Unsurprisingly, one of the most popular options for driving future growth in home shopping was time-window deliveries. This was seen as the most likely ‘last mile’ delivery service to fuel future growth by 67 per cent of those surveyed. For retailers operating on-line, the figure was 71 per cent.

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UK Government plans to split Consignia into 2 companies

Posted by | Oct 7, 2001 | |

LONDON (AFX) – Consignia, the renamed Post Office, will be split into two companies under a radical proposal being examined by the government, the Sunday Times reported without citing sources.

It said ministers are considering a plan to merge Royal Mail and Parcel Force into one company and put Post Office Counters (POC), which runs the network of 17,800 regional post offices, into another. Each company would have a separate board and management structure.

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John Lewis picks iForce to deliver for expanded online store

Posted by | Oct 1, 2001 | |

John Lewis rolled out its new and much-expanded online shopping site, www.johnlewis.com, earlier this month, and has appointed iForce to handle fulfilment for the operation.
The logistics contract, which runs initially for three and a half years, is being described as one of the largest and most prestigious in the efulfilment sector to be awarded by a UK retailer so far. No precise measure is being put on this, but the job is known to involve 5,000 stock-keeping units initially, and could run to 25,000 eventually.

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Consignia leads trials into new delivery solutions for home shoppers

Posted by | Sep 27, 2001 | |

Consignia is exploring the potential of new-style deliveries which mean people do not have to be at home to receive goods ordered from catalogues or via the internet. The organisation has linked up with five providers of drop box systems to test consumer demand and the ways in which they work. It is the latest initiative in Consignia’s drive to resolve last mile delivery issues and unlock one of the accepted barriers to even more rapid growth in the home shopping market.

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Collectpoint – convenience store network a winner

Posted by | Sep 20, 2001 | |

Speaking at a meeting with e-tailers
recently, Jim Doyle, head of international development for the PickPoint /
Collectpoint Internet fulfilment business, described the rapid progress made
in the UK over the past twelve months in both recruiting on-line retailers and
also chains of late-night opening stores as collection points for the service. Collectpoint now has a wide variety of on-line and mail order retailer
partners, allowing shoppers to collect their purchases from over 3,200
collection sites throughout the UK. All Collectpoints are open from early
morning to late at night seven days a week and some are open 24 hours per day.
When shopping with a participating retailer, shoppers simply select a
Collectpoint near to their home and pick up their parcel when convenient

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