Tag: TNT

'Big Orange' adds Splash of Colour to its Range

Posted by | Feb 16, 2007 | |

TNT may be famous for it orange trucks, but it will be adding to its colour palette in 2007 thanks to deal worth in excess of GBP 1million a year with one of Britain’s biggest colourant suppliers to the plastics industries.

Britain’s leading business-to-business express deliverer won the deal with ColorMatrix to transport colourants from the company’s headquarters in Knowsley, Merseyside, to firms across the UK and Europe. The colours are used to tint transparent materials including bottles for big brand drinks manufacturers such as Coca-Cola and Robinsons.

From Knowsley, TNT transports the goods to its newly opened GBP 5.6 million gateway depot at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, which handles domestic parcels for the North-West of England as well as international consignments to and from mainland Europe and further afield.

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TNT Post forms strategic partnership

Posted by | Feb 16, 2007 | |

TNT Post, the UK arm of Dutch mail group TNT NV said on Friday it had formed a strategic partnership with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) to offer postal services to its members.

BRC members will be able to use TNT Post’s two-day service for pre-sorted mail with Britain’s Royal Mail continuing to carry out the final mile delivery to customers’ homes.

The BRC membership includes 85 percent of British retailers, such as Tesco, luxury department store Harrods, and baby goods retailer Mothercare.

The 6.5 billion pounds British mail industry was deregulated in 2006. Competition for letters in the UK had been limited to bulk mailings of 4,000 items or more. Bulk operators licensed by industry regulator Postcom are now able to compete fully with Royal Mail.

TNT Post, which also supplies postal services to Thames Water and BT Group said in January it had won a two-year contract to handle mail for British energy firm.

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TNT Post looks to text response to bring new business

Posted by | Feb 14, 2007 | |

TNT Post, the UK postal service, has launched an advertising and mailing campaign with a text response and mobile download element.

TNT is hoping to poach customers from Royal Mail and the company wants to expand on the 60m letters a month it currently processes.
It has decided to use the mobile phone channel rather than the internet as the medium to give interested prospects more information about the company, having decided it speeds up response rates. It also allows TNT’s saleforce to make follow up calls.

The marketing materials invite people to text ‘TNT Post’ to the number 60123. They are sent back a link to the TNT Post mobile internet site, from which they can download more information including testimonial videos from current TNT clients Sky and Lloyds TSB.

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CEP Market Factsheet India

Posted by | Feb 6, 2007 | |

CEP Market Factsheet India

This CEP Market Fact Sheet provides a detailed market summary of India. It contains detailed information about macro-economics, CEP market volumes, market shares and an estimated forecast, as well as details and a product overview of the most important carriers in the Indian Express and Parcels distribution market.

The CEP Market Fact Sheet India gives Facts & Figures (2005) on:

General Facts
Population and Size
Historical Background
GDP & Trends
Infrastructure
Information / Communication Technology (2004) & Transportation Facts
Risk Profile (Risk Ranking and Corruption Rating)
Foreign Trade Data (Import / Export)

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TNT and union aim to protect working conditions on German postal market

Posted by | Feb 2, 2007 | |

TNT Post, the Dutch postal service provider, which is also present on the German market, has announced that it plans to collaborate with the services sector union Ver.di to prevent the end of the mail monopoly for German postal operator Deutsche Post from leading simply to a cost war.

TNT Post and the union plan to press for working conditions to be subject to minimum standards.

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