Tag: UK

Somerfield & National Grid Transco renew with MailSource

Posted by | Oct 15, 2004 | |

MailSource has successfully extended its’ contract with Somerfield for a further three years. MailSource has 15 employees working at the Head Office building in Bristol which currently accommodates 2,000 Somerfield staff. In addition, there are approximately 650 Somerfield Stores, 550 Kwik Save Stores, 13 Distribution Depots, 6 Divisional Offices and 350 external personnel across the UK all of whom receive information via the Mailroom.
MailSource has also successfully extended its’ contract with National Grid Transco for a further three years. MailSource have 3 employees servicing 2 buildings within London delivering mail to 200 NGT staff. The contract was renewed following a proposal submitted by MailSource.

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Nightfreight’s IDW bosses quit

Posted by | Oct 14, 2004 | |

Ownership change leads to new strategy and departure of divisional management team from IDW network. Firm is set to start Polish drivers on multi-drop work.

Nightfreight, which had a secondary management buy-out in July, announced the unexpected departure of senior executives at its IDW Network, which handles freight of irregular dimension and weight. Gone are managing director Paul Watson and group operations director Ian Lancaster. In a statement, the firm said: “Paul and Ian have been with the company for many years and made significant contributions to developing the business. Nightfreight has a new focus and is being reshaped to take it forward to the next stage of its development plans, and they have decided that the company’s longer-term strategy does not fit in with their personal plans for the future.” Nightfreight chief executive Rob Kelly, who will serve as IDW managing director in addition to his current role, declined to elaborate on the statement.

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UK MPs to launch inquiry into future of crown post offices

Posted by | Oct 14, 2004 | |

Post Office executives are to be grilled by MPs overthe future of the 550 high street crown offices, some of which are facing closure, relocation or being taken over. Crown post offices are directly owned by the Post Office, unlike smaller sub-post offices, and lose almost Pounds 70m a year thanks to soaring rents, inefficient use of space and labour-intensive working practices. Options being considered to make the offices more commercially viable are closure, relocation to nearby but lower-cost premises, and franchising out to convenience store groups such as Londis. It would be possible to run a scaled-back post office counter from these stores, the Post Office has said. Ian Fisher, of consumer watchdog Postwatch, said crown office closures could be more controversial than the recent cuts in urban sub-post office numbers.

“Crown offices are the flagship stores within the network, they are prominently-located and heavily-used, so any change would attract a lot of interest.”

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