Securicor PLC said Royal Mail’s cash handling and distribution division has withdrawn its proposal for the outsourcing of its cash management and transportation services “to avoid disruption across the Royal Mail customer base at a critical time of year”.
Read MoreRoyal Mail Group has appointed four new non-executive directors, Mike Hodgkinson, Richard Handover, David Fish and John Neill.
Read MoreThe Royal Mail Group has halved its PR spend to pounds 2.5m while simultaneously more than doubling the number of PR agencies on its roster.
Five agencies will handle PR work across the Royal Mail Group’s three divisions: Royal Mail, the Post Office and Parcelforce Worldwide.
Cohn & Wolfe, Countrywide Porter Novelli, Eulogy!, August.One Communications and Shine Communications have secured the work after a ten-week competitive pitch. They will work alongside Communications Services, the Royal Mail Group’s in-house PR team.
Read MoreSainsbury’s, recently outsourced the management of eight million crates for food produce to Hays Asset Control Solutions (Hays ACS) as part of its strategy to reduce packaging and meet its environmental targets, has added 500,000 more units to its produce pool ready for Christmas.
Read MoreColin Matthews, the new chief executive of Hays, yesterday signalled he might break up the support services group. Mr Matthews, who has been in the job three weeks, told the annual meeting that a strategy review would lead to changes. “We will not be defending the status quo.”
Analysts had been concerned that Mr Matthews, who came from Transco where he was managing director, would run the company in its existing form, rather than pursue a break-up. The group’s activities span logistics, personnel and commercial.
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