T&B win US contract with JC Penney
Tibbett & Britten group North America has won a multi-million dollar contract with JC Penney, an American department store retail chain.
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Consignia chief admits delays
Consignia does not have the financial systems in place to compete as a commercial corporation despite being the equivalent of a FTSE 100 company, chairman Allan Leighton admitted yesterday.
It would take another 12 months for the benefits of a pounds 100m project to update its computer systems to come through and allow it to compete on equal terms with the private sector, he told members of the commons trade and industry select committee.
UK courier market value & forecast 1997-2006
Value
1997 – £547.9m
1998 – £570.8m
1999 – £593.2m
2000 – £617.8m
2001 – £642.4m
Forecast
2002 – £656.2m
2003 – £676.4m
2004 – £697.6m
2005 – £713.2m
2006 – £729.1m
Published in IFW, source: trade & MSI forecasts
600 new jobs at mail centre
MORE than 600 jobs are being created in Plymouth with the official unveiling today of the country’s first state-of-the-art mail centre.
Royal Mail has opened the first Manual Data Entry Centre (MDEC) at its former offices in Pennycomequick to help speed up the nation’s post.
The centre is the first of two being set up in the UK and is part of a national initiative called Address Interpretation (AI).
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Consignia is to start trials in the next few weeks to stop second deliveries, which accounted for just 4% of mail, but 30% of the cost of deliveries, which was “nuts”, said Mr Leighton.
He also revealed that Consignia was looking to transport more first-class mail by road and switch more second-class post to rail.
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