DMIS Sector Intelligence Report – Personal Loans & Mortgages
DMIS Sector Intelligence Report – Personal Loans & Mortgages
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Tibbett & Britten wins Sainsburys contract
Tibbett & Britten has won a 3 year contract to manage J Sainsburys new Hams Hall distribution centre
Read MoreThe Inconvenience of picking parcels up from the Post Office
Did you know that if a delivery fails because nobody is in, they could end up paying for the inconvenience of picking it up at the Post Office?
Consignia has introduced a 50p charge to people picking up failed deliveries from their local Post Office. However, one customer ordered some books, and got a postcard from Parcelforce, saying it had been unable to deliver them. It couldn’t guarantee redelivery when he’d be in, and he couldn’t get them sent to his work because it was in a different postal area. The collection point was miles away.
He gratefully seized on the remaining option – picking his books up from a nearby Post Office. When he turned up, he had to pay a 50p “handling charge”.
Consignia’s Caroline Pearson says: “It’s a new service which costs us money to provide, so as a business we have to charge.”
Read MoreWanted: More for less (Logistics Feature)
At a conference late last year, the logistics director of one of the world’s largest consumer electronics manufacturers complained that, despite having an annual Logistics budget of millions, his company still couldn’t get the kind of service it wanted out of third-party logistics suppliers. John Doran, logistics director Europe for Sony, says that reaction to his presentation has been enormous. “A lot of people have been coming up to me and saying ‘you’ve said what we’ve been thinking all along’,” he says. So strong is this feeling, reveals Doran, that a meeting of key minds is taking place early this year ‘to look at how we can better manage third-party providers to give us what we want’.
Read MoreBrit European Transport contract win with Meadow Foods
Meadow Foods, the Bedfordshire-based subsidiary of food manufacturer Bodfari, has appointed Brit European Transport to handle around 100 loads per month of bulk, milk-derivative products on its behalf.
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