Tag: UK

Consignia Chairman promises radical solutions to problems

Posted by | Feb 25, 2002 | |

Postal giant Consignia is reviewing every aspect of its activities – including its name – company chairman Alan Leighton said today. The business was “haemorrhaging” cash, losing up to £1.5 million a day, he warned. “Clearly it can’t go on as it is. The view at the moment is the right one, which is everything is up for review, and no change clearly in the post office is not now an option,” Mr Leighton told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

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Post Service has wrong leaders, say managers

Posted by | Feb 25, 2002 | |

Most senior postal managers fear that the service has the wrong leadership. In a survey of more than 600 managers by the trade union Amicus, 85 per cent said that Consignia “does not have the right leadership to meet the challenges it faces”.

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Post managers warn of deliveries 'meltdown'

Posted by | Feb 25, 2002 | |

Postal deliveries face “meltdown” under plans by the postal services regulator to open up the sector to competition, according to a poll of senior managers at Consignia. The Amicus trade union said that in the poll of 600 managers at Consignia almost two-thirds said the company was not capable of meeting the challenges ahead. The poll highlights concern over the speed of implementing competition.

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Securicor wins Alliance & Leicester contract

Posted by | Feb 25, 2002 | |

Securicor, the security and distribution group, has won a Pounds 200 million deal to manage Alliance & Leicester’s cash processing. The A&L business had been managed by Consignia but it did not want to renew the contract.

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Owner-driver plans rock Consignia

Posted by | Feb 24, 2002 | |

Plans to make all drivers at Consignia subsidiary Parcelforce buy their vans and sign personal contracts with the company are set to stretch already tense relations with postal unions at a crucial meeting this week.

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