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.
Read MoreRyder has been awarded a three-year contract to take over the UK distribution for the Perfect Pizza/Papa Johns restaurant chain. Vehicles will work out of Ryders Enfield base and Perfect Pizzas south Staffordshire warehouse.
Read MoreUp to 800 unprofitable post offices should be amalgamated with retail
services or established as Government services outlets, according to
an official report to be published this week. (Republic of Ireland)
The ACS has warned of a further drop in sub post office numbers unless the
Post Office Network makes the prospect of taking on a post office more
appealing to independent retailers. In a new report, the ACS Post Office Committee claims retailers’
relationships with the PON are “one sided, unduly restrictive and old
fashioned”.
Spar has opened the UK’s first combined main post office and convenience store
in London this week. Rather than sectioning off the post office behind glass windows, the open plan
design at Westminster Bridge Road enables customers to pay for groceries,
apply for a passport, collect benefit and buy travellers’ cheques at the same
till.
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