TESCO’S new UKPd45m ambient food distribution centre at Thurrock has been officially opened by IT & logistics director Philip Clarke, together with John Harvey, chairman of Tibbett & Britten Group, and mayor of Thurrock Barrie Lawrence.
Read MoreTIBBETT & Britten has ‘crossed the Rubicon’ in being a UK-headquartered logistics company whose home base now accounts for just 39% of group revenues, down from 96% a decade ago.
The man behind this change is not Caesar, but T&B chairman John Harvey, whose shock of white hair and distinctive spectacles has been the face of UK logistics for 20 years.
Read MoreExel Direct, Exel’s e-fulfilment and home delivery service, will implement a new system for IKEA’s home deliveries to provide the retailer and its customers with a greater degree of delivery accuracy.
IKEA customers will benefit from this new relationship. Exel will deliver from store to door providing customers the choice at time of ordering, the most convenient time slots for delivery on a given day and which room deliveries should be left.
Read MoreThe UK’s postal regulator is set to throw open nearly a third of the Royal Mail’s market to competition in a move which will put £1.25bn of business at risk.
PostComm is expected to unveil a radical shake-up of the postal system at the end of the month which will result in rival operators being granted long-term contracts to compete with Consignia for 30 per cent of its monopoly business.
Read MoreExel has won a £120 million 10 year logistics contract from Saab, following an earlier relationship where Exel controls wheel assembly, warehousing and sequencing operations for the automotive company.
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