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New milestone in company’s history as ANC becomes FedEx UK

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

FedEx Express announced the re-branding of its recently-acquired UK domestic express company, ANC. From today, ANC will be known as FedEx UK and the new brand will be rolled out across all assets and uniforms by autumn next year.
“Since acquiring ANC in December last year, our management teams have been working together to ensure the benefits of the acquisition are passed on to customers of both organizations. Today’s unveiling of the new brand is an exciting step in fully embracing the FedEx UK staff and operations into the broader FedEx family,” said Robert W. Elliott, president, FedEx Express, Europe, Middle-East, Indian sub-continent and Africa.
“Today marks a major and symbolic milestone in our corporate history and one that everyone at FedEx UK warmly welcomes. At the end of the re-branding in the autumn of 2008, about 2,000 vehicles and 3,000 uniformed employees and contractors will proudly carry the new FedEx UK livery,” said FedEx UK CEO, Michael Holt.
Under its new brand, FedEx UK will continue to provide an outstanding range of comprehensive domestic distribution and logistics services with an established national pick-up and delivery network. FedEx UK will build on its strong customer service heritage and remain focused on delivery reliability and the development of its employees.

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Norwich Union announces Post Office deal

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

UK-based insurer Norwich Union has announced a distribution deal with Post Office Financial Services. Under the agreement, Post Office-branded Norwich Union protection products will be available for the millions of customers who use the Post Office every week.

A 50-plus life insurance plan is the first product to be launched. It offers simple, affordable life insurance for those over 50 without the need for underwriting. A further life protection product will be launched later in the year.

David Barral, intermediary and partnerships director for Norwich Union, said: “We are delighted to announce our latest partnership, which builds on our existing relationship as the Post Office’s lead insurance provider of personal motor, home and commercial vehicle insurance.

“This is an exciting opportunity which supports our strategy to develop new distribution channels, in particular to increase our offerings direct to customers and to develop new, simpler products which are affordable and easy to buy. It will also help to close the estimated GBP2.3 trillion life protection gap that consumers have in the UK.”

Post Office director of insurance Phil Ashkuri said: “The Post Office has already attracted well over half a million insurance customers and this new launch builds on our existing range, which now includes travel, home, motor and van insurance and a payment protection policy – lifestyle protection. As with all our financial services products, our new over-50s life plan offer a simple and straightforward solution at value for money prices.”

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Use Your Postal Service or Lose It

Posted by | Sep 14, 2007 | |

Hardened unionists, determined to stand on picket lines to the last, are a big part of Royal Mail’s present troubles.

There are of course many that will be doing so because the changes ahead at Britain’s monopoly postal provider will affect their way of lives, there is also a proportion who feel its in the interest of their customers, but by and large, activists make up a large percentage of strikers, particularly in areas that have in the past seen mining strikes.

Such memories are not easily forgotten – particularly in the north and parts of Wales but certainly Royal Mail has had a great deal of influence from the union in its lifetime, and its a strength that is not easily given up by its members.

In the private sector, flexibility has been key to maximizing profits and arguably with little reward for those doing the actual work but in most cases, productivity bonuses and reward payments have been welcomed. On the reverse side, the fat cat culture has swelled in some industries and understandably unions are becoming somewhat restless. That said, industrial action in the form of strikes also has a negative effect. Loss of revenue can weaken a business to the point of no return and Royal Mail is determined not to be bullied by strikes as it reorganizes the way it works simply to survive.

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Kuehne + Nagel, AstraZeneca ink new pact

Posted by | Sep 14, 2007 | |

Kuehne + Nagel (K + N) has inked a new pact with UK-based drug maker AstraZeneca to provide the global cold chain air and sea freight for some of its products.

Under the contract, K + N will facilitate the transportation one of AstraZeneca’s statins, as well as an oncology drug and an anesthetic, among other medicines, and some active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), from production sites in the UK, Sweden, France, Italy and Germany, to destinations in the Middle East, Japan, Africa and the USA.

The pharmaceutical products it has been charged with are in both emulsion and solid form and must be maintained within a stipulated temperature range, said K + N.

So far this is exactly what they have been doing. Aside from the new K + N deal, in May AstraZeneca awarded UK-based NYK Logistics a two-and-a-half-year contract for the distribution of its drugs throughout Europe, worth GBP 6m (EUR 8.9m).

NYK said at the time that the arrangement would bring together the distribution operations of AstraZeneca’s European manufacturing facilities for the first time, as until now, each plant operated independently and was responsible for its own transportation.

Under the terms of the contract, NYK will use its pan-European network of road transport partners to provide AstraZeneca with the temperature-controlled distribution of almost 50,000 pallets of product per year from AstraZeneca’s 10 manufacturing facilities across the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden to 30 delivery points throughout Europe.

The European contract logistics market is currently flourishing, and recent research from Analytiqa revealed that spending on outsourced logistics services in the European pharma industry is likely to exceed USD 2bn in 2011 as more and more opportunities arise for 3PL providers.

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