Consignia insisted yesterday that door-to-door deliveries, the traditional cornerstone of the service, are safe, despite growing speculation that plans are being hatched to scrap the service. A spokesman stressed concern over the future of the doorstep delivery service was unfounded and also said there were no plans to sell-off its loss-making Parcelforce delivery operation.
Read MoreChristian Salvesen has won a £300,000 per year distribution and warehousing contract for box manufacturer Boxes Prestige. Salvesen will deliver boxes direct to customers throughout the UK, and storage for the total international offering. The specialist boxes are for companies such as Thornton’s Chocolates, Avon and Evelyn Crahtree.
Read MoreTDG has won a three-year multimillion pound contract to handle c-fulfilment for television home shopping channel Home Shopping Europe. HSE will use
50,000 sq ft of TDG’s 450,000 sq ft e-fulfilment centre at Wrexham, which includes a secure area for high value products. £200,000 has been invested to support c-fulfilment services at the site which will see an additional 45 jobs dedicated to the HSE contract.
UK-based automotive logistics firm AutoLogic cemented its position as Europe’s largest independent automotive logistics provider last week when it splashed out $20.5m (€23m) to acquire the entire stock ofAutocar and Ansa Logistics.
Read MoreLast year you announced big changes at Hays Logistics. What has happened since then?
In 2000 we launched our activities in Poland and developed them extremely quickly from the start, with a 30% growth rate per year.
We have totally restructured operations in Germany
— and things look very promising there as well. We have appointed Andreas Thier as the new head, and he is currently working on evolving a more dynamic approach in Hays’ activities in Germany.
We have also entered the market in Greece, and we have considerably developed our activities in Italy
and Spain. Vc had virtually nothing in Spain about two years ago and today we make an annual turnover of approximately FRF 300 million (EUR 45.7 million) there – and this is exclusively from internal growth. without any acquisitions.
So the developments are quite remarkable — a lot of new major customers have joined us.
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