Cranleigh Freight Services celebrates its 25th birthday this year and is “proud to have got where it is, ” says MD Julie Phillips.
Justifiably so, for the company is not just surviving, but thriving. Turnover leapt from £8m (€13m) to £12m (€19m) last year, led by home delivery, which now accounts for 35% of business, and international contracts.
Taylors of Martley has won a contract to provide MG Rover with a sequencing supply system that will enable individual parts to be delivered to the production lines within 15 minutes. The work will be carried out by its TM Automotive Logistics division which also has the contract to operate an internal distribution centre at MG Rover’s Longbridge site.
Read MorePanalpina Group saw profits jump 20.5% in 2001 to 111.7 million Swiss francs ($67.05 million) compared to $55.7 million in 2000.
Read MoreNew figures show that UK international hauliers had a terrible 2001.
Figures released this week show that the UK international road haulage industry is in crisis. It is unable to cope with competition from low cost foreign haulers. With an increase in fuel tax expected in the annual Budget, this imbalance is likely to widen, leading to a swathe of job losses and company failures.
Pallet network Palletways is taking customer service to a new level by implementing the Neomax customer despatch IT system. The system allows customers to enter their orders directly onto Palletways system, automatically producing a barcode label, therefore allowing complete visibility through the Palletways track and trace faccility.
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