Tag: UK

Pall-Ex owner Devey says: ‘Let them speculate’

Posted by | Feb 12, 2005 | |

Pall-Ex annual dinner moves to Hyde Park, London and hears confident boss looking forward to future of growth. More hauliers expected to join.

Pall-Ex owner Hilary Devey shrugged off speculation as to her “exit strategy”, when she addressed network members at their annual dinner dance last Saturday. She told 440 people at the InterContinental Hotel in London: “Let them speculate. I’ll get on with the job, making Pall-Ex more successful, more prestigious and more profitable.” Devey, notably confident and relaxed, promised investment, growth and innovation, and allowed herself a joke about flooding at the new hub, which had been worked so hard that the floor had “broken into a sweat”. “Pall-Ex will always be the number one network,” she said. Networking with Pall-Ex provides a cushion for firms in a tough market.

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100th Depot in UK for Palletways

Posted by | Feb 12, 2005 | |

Birmingham-based Palletways, has announced the creation of its 100th depot in the UK.

The company, which lays claim to being Europe’s largest and fastest growing player in the overnight-freight sector, is the first pallet network to reach this milestone.

Under the agreement, Berser International Cargo Services will serve the Newcastleunder-Lyme area in Staffordshire from a depot in Stoke-on-Trent.

The move came after ten years of steady growth, with annual turnover now at the pounds 65 million mark.

Berser is part of the Berser Group and also has operations in Rotterdam, Holland.

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MAILING ISSUES: Time to deliver

Posted by | Feb 11, 2005 | |

With the postal services market opening up, mailers could soon be able to select the day of the week in which direct mail and door-drops arrive. Despite being heralded as the most accountable medium, direct mail – and door-drops – do not offer any physical evidence of being delivered in the form of written confirmation by the postal service. One thing you can be sure about with advertising is that an ad has appeared. With TV ads, simply watching during the right slot will provide confirmation, even before the contractor sends out a written report. Radio and press ads can also be physically monitored – and research companies exist that do just that. Even door-to-door can now be monitored using a service like StepCheck. But once the mailing house has raised a docket saying items were handed over to Royal Mail, mailers just have to wait and see if the enquiries or orders start to come in. It is a surprising gap. The sheer volume of items makes it impossible to validate that every single item has been distributed. But the absence of proof reflects another gap in direct mail’s measurability: guaranteed delivery dates.

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UK Post watchdog risks uproar over regulatory ‘light touch’

Posted by | Feb 11, 2005 | |

Postcomm is risking the wrath of Royal Mail by pledging to treat new entrants to the postal market with a regulatory ‘light touch’. The move, outlined in the watchdog’s corporate strategy for the next three years, is designed to free them from unnecessary regulation. A Postcomm spokeswoman says that it is doing what is necessary to prevent abuse of the system, rather than for its own sake. She explains: “In a fully competitive market, regulation is not necessary, as weaker players will be edged out.”

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Royal Mail agrees to tighten its internal procedures following Postcomm’s investigation into anti-competitive practices

Posted by | Feb 9, 2005 | |

Royal Mail has agreed to tighten its internal compliance procedures following an investigation by Postcomm into allegations that two of the company’s promotion schemes were anti-competitive.

The schemes were designed by Royal Mail to encourage customers to use mail as part of their marketing activities. The complainant – another postal operator – alleged that, in encouraging customers to switch to Royal Mail, the company was intending to remove competition from the market.

Postcomm has concluded that Royal Mail appears to have contravened two conditions in its licence designed to facilitate competition. As a result, the company has given several undertakings to Postcomm on the way it will in future conduct any promotional offers and special deals with non standard terms.

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