Tag: UK

TNT wins Ikea catalogue distribution contract

Posted by | Aug 15, 2006 | |

TNT Post has won the GBP 2m-plus contract to distribute Ikea’s catalogues to UK households over the next year and will, for the first time, be the sole distributor.

TNT, which has worked with the furniture retailer since 1992, has always shared contracts with other distributors; it worked with a company called Deya in the last contract. It has been awarded sole supplier status following a lengthy tender process earlier this year.

The new edition of the catalogue is to go out to 13.3m households in the next month through TNT’s Solus doordrop service.

The service uses TNT’s Team Network, a national field force of 8,000 distributors, directed by more than 150 full-time area managers.

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Mail Posts Trillion Mark

Posted by | Aug 15, 2006 | |

The Royal Mail has delivered more than one trillion letters across the UK since records began in 1839, research has shown.

The postal group said it expected deliveries to continue increasing despite alternative forms of communicating such as emails and texting.

More than 84 million items are delivered every day and officials said they expected the next trillion milestone to be reached in 30 years time.

The milestone was announced ahead of changes next week to the pricing of post, which will be based on size and shape as well as weight.

Letters sent since 1839, when the Penny Black stamp was first introduced, would cover the whole of the earth 42,500 times over, the study showed.

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Baynes & Son moves to PalletFORCE

Posted by | Aug 15, 2006 | |

Bangor transport company Baynes and Son has switched its palletised distribution network to PalletFORCE, in a move that complements the network’s ongoing consolidation programme.

Previously with UPN, Baynes and Son’s decision to join PalletFORCE has been made to ensure that the company can continue to meet the distribution needs of existing and potential customers.

“We had a good relationship with UPN but felt that PalletFORCE offered bigger and better opportunities for the future,” comments Managing Director Mike Baynes. “PalletFORCE’s unique shareholder ownership structure particularly impressed us, as we feel more secure knowing we have input into the running of the Network.”

Baynes and Son has been recruited as a Shareholder Member Depot for parts of the LL postcode. It will share responsibility for the area with existing PalletFORCE member Edwin C Farrall (Transport) Ltd, as part of the Network’s programme of postcode consolidation.

The company began trading in 1989 and today operates from 19,500 ft of warehousing. Its fleet comprises twelve lorries (nine artics and three four-wheelers), three vans and one pick-up truck.

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SABIC Selects SNAS/DHL – Agreement aims to consolidate logistics service operations from more than 25 providers to single solution

Posted by | Aug 14, 2006 | |

SABIC basic industries has selected SNAS/DHL to be its global lead logistics provider (LLP) for all outgoing mail and service logistics, the Kingdom’s leading express logistics company has announced.

The contract, with a term of up to three years, consolidates SABIC’s logistics service operations from more than 25 service providers to a single logistics solution through SNAS/DHL.

SABIC basic industries has selected SNAS/DHL to be its global lead logistics provider (LLP) for all outgoing mail and service logistics, the Kingdom’s leading express logistics company has announced.

The agreement combines SNAS/DHL’s global logistics and distribution network capabilities. SNAS/DHL said it would streamline SABIC’s logistics processes by managing the distribution of all outgoing mail. SNAS/DHL’s transportation services for SABIC will include SNAS/DHL’s same day, express, ground and freight services.

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Postcomm consults on a redirection service for the competitive mail market

Posted by | Aug 14, 2006 | |

Every year, around 1.3 million households and businesses use Royal Mail’s redirections service, and there are approximately 800,000 redirections “live” on the company’s books at any one time.

In the fully competitive market, where rivals of Royal Mail are also able to offer their own collection and delivery services, redirection arrangements need to be broadened to allow those rivals to redirect mail, and today Postcomm began consulting on how this could be achieved within the constraints of data protection rules.

The sharing of redirections information that residential customers and sole business traders provide to Royal Mail is classified as “personal data” under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), and any solution needs to comply with data protection rules. Postcomm is proposing changes to ensure personal data is handled properly and has established a memorandum of understanding with the Information Commissioner, who has specific responsibilities for the promotion and enforcement of the DPA, setting out how the two regulators would cooperate if UK data protection rules are broken.

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