Tag: UK

Consignia integrates Autonomy's technology with new transactional portal

Posted by | Oct 19, 2001 | |

CAMBRIDGE, England – Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; LSE: AU., Europe Nasdaq: AUTN), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that Consignia, the government-owned group which runs the UK’s Royal Mail, Post Office and Parcelforce Worldwide companies, has purchased Autonomy’s technology to automate content delivery on its new transactional e-channel, due to be launched later this year.

Under the terms of the contract, Autonomy’s technology will automate the aggregation, categorisation and delivery of information to customers under the Royal Mail, Post Office and Parcelforce brands. Autonomy will enable Consignia to create a customer-centric content engine by ensuring that visitors to the site receive the information that is most appropriate to their needs and interests, thus making their interaction with the site more productive.

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KG Sewell Company Profile

Posted by | Oct 18, 2001 | |

Time is man’s ultimate master—a phrase as relevant today as it ever was. But for the past 21 years they are words that one company, Leedsbased KG Sewell, has tried its best to challenge. For as deputy managing director Gary O’Gara explains, the main work of the firm is just-in-time deliveries. “We distribute these primarily to car companies,” he says. “Delivering items such as wheels, fuel tanks and car carpets.”
O’Gara has been at the company for five years but is steeped in its history. The firm was formed in 1980 by Ken Sewell with a small fleet of tonners; it soon developed the niche which remains the company’smain distinction today. “The niche is sending flyers to the car companies,” O’Gara explains. “Car companies will call us in when they quickly need a new item to continue their production lines. Flyers are simply a shortage of supply or product or the failure of a tool. We get them there on time.”
This is an incredibly challenging area, given the range of KG Sewell’s customers.

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BA tightens express after discarding the loose

Posted by | Oct 18, 2001 | |

Nigel Baty, general manager of BA’s Special Handling unit has been involved with the Heathrow operation for 12 years. Having spent three years at Gatwick he was moved back to BA’s stand alone Heathrow facility, last August, where he has rung in the changes.
“There have been a lot of initiatives put in place to make sure the products are brought back from the aircraft in time. Since last August, our productivity has increased by 20%,” says Baty.

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Consignia may cut use of mail trains

Posted by | Oct 18, 2001 | |

Consignia, the state-owned postal services group, is considering drastic changes to its distribution network that could lead to a big reduction in its use of mail trains.

A review of the company’s transport needs is understood to be seeking substantial savings in the cost of distributing 80m letters a day, of which about 20 per cent go by train

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