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Neopost announces the acquisition of PFE, a worldwide supplier of folders/inserters

Posted by | Sep 25, 2007 | |

Neopost announced the acquisition of PFE International Ltd, a worldwide supplier of folders/inserters.

PFE is a privately-owned UK company which was founded in 1963. PFE generated sales of GBP 29.3 million in 2006, of which almost 80 pct came from outside the UK. PFE has a distributor network covering 55 countries as well as 10 subsidiaries located in Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. The company employs 480 staff.

A strong complementarily exists between Neopost and PFE’s lines of folding and inserting products. Neopost is mainly focused in the lower volume market while PFE is strongly focused in the higher volume market. The transaction will result in a more comprehensive product line and a reinforced distribution network as well as increased synergies with Neopost’s mailing systems. The companies signed an agreement covering the acquisition of most of PFE’s activities.

The activities to be acquired generated sales of GBP 27.5 million in 2006 with an EBIT margin of about 5 pct. The transaction will be based on an enterprise value of GBP 27.2 million, around one times sales, and will be financed by the existing credit lines. The transaction remains subject to approval by the relevant regulatory authorities.

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TNT Express wins SAP EMEA Quality Award

Posted by | Sep 24, 2007 | |

TNT Express, with support from Atos Origin, an international IT services company, has recently completed the 56th country in a global SAP implementation to 62 countries.

The global multi-million Euro program, which is already delivering savings and business benefits, was recognized at a recent SAP award ceremony, where TNT Express won the SAP EMEA Quality Award for Global Implementation and Roll-out.

To date, the benefits for TNT Express of the global SAP roll-out include savings in purchasing and inventory, strengthened reporting processes to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and improved management of IS/IT through a global customer competence centre. The success of this award winning project is due to the resolute commitment from TNT Express, the strong project team and the focus, energy and pragmatic style, with which Atos Origin has supported the implementation.

At a separate ceremony in London, Atos Origin won the UK SAP Partner Excellence award for Customer Satisfaction and Quality for the third year in succession. This highly coveted award is determined by an independent customer satisfaction survey, in which customers are asked to rate SAP partners on all aspects of the SAP implementation process, including professional competence, quality of consultants, SAP product know-how and ability to deliver on time and to budget.

The awards in Prague were led by Dr Svan Lembke, Vice President and in charge of the Quality Programme for SAP across EMEA. After the event, Dr Lembke concluded: “TNT Express have embraced key principles of quality early in their implementation and involved their partner Atos Origin and SAP to achieve a successful global roll-out. Having been involved with Atos Origin for more than 3 years it is tremendous to see them win the UK Partner Excellence Award and the win for TNT Express shows the collaboration in practice”.

Atos Origin has more than 20 years of experience with SAP applications and is a SAP Global Services Partner, a SAP Global Hosting Partner, a member of the SAP NetWeaver® Partnership Initiative and a leading member of the Enterprise SOA adoption program. Atos Origin has more than 4,560 SAP application consultants worldwide and SAP certified data centres in all geographical regions. The group was a finalist in the prestigious 2007 Global SAP Pinnacle Awards and two 2006 SAP Partner awards.

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Archbold Logistics opts for Palletforce quality

Posted by | Sep 24, 2007 | |

Archbold Logistics, a successful Leeds-based transport company with six locations nationwide, has joined PalletFORCE, one of the country’s fastest growing palletised distribution networks, in the long-term interests of the company and its customers.

The company is new to networks but decided to make the move after it won several contracts requiring palletised distribution. “We are able to deliver to specialised regions, but even with six Depots we were limited geographically. Joining a network seemed the ideal means of expanding to cover the entire country,” explains Xavier Archbold, the company’s Business Development Manager.

PalletFORCE proved the most suitable of all the networks that Archbold Logistics looked at. “Simply, PalletFORCE had the best quality of membership, giving us the sense that our deliveries would be well looked after,” Xavier Archbold confirms.

Archbold’s Manchester depot has now taken on responsibility for the northern part of the M postcode. “It’s early days yet but we want this to be an important part of the business,” comments Xavier Archbold.

Archbold Logistics was founded in 1918 and today the £20 million turnover, family-owned business has depots in Louth, Daventry, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead in addition to those in Leeds and Manchester. Alongside a 150-strong fleet, the company operates European, emergency freight and car sales divisions.

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