BMW Group is using integrated service provision from Securicor Omega Container Logistics (SOCL) and Danzas AEI Intercontinental to move engines for the Mini car model from a plant in Brazil to its Oxford production facility.
Danzas AEI Intercontinental and SOCL transport the engines in maritime containers from Brazil to Tilbury, before onward road transport to Oxford.
The Gluttonous Gardener, mail order and Internet-based supplier of plant gifts, has appointed home delivery operator Beck & Call to handle all home shopping deliveries of its plants to customers living in London. Whether shopping online via Beck Call’s portal at www.beckandcall.co.ul or through the Gluttonous Gardener’s mail order brochure or website at www.glut.co.uk, customers can now choose form the retailers unusual selection of plant gifts and have thes delivered through Beck & Call’s flexible home delivery system. Founded in 2000, Beck & Call provides users with the ability to shop online, by mail order or in the high street with the advantage of home
delivery at their convenience. Customers covered by one of Beck & Call’s depots receive a call, an email or a message on their mobile phone when their purchases arrive at their local depot. The customer chooses when to take delivery and the goods arrive within plus or minus 30 minutes.
TPG 1Q 2002 Financial Results – TPG press release
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TNT Post Group – TPG Annual Report
TPG NV interim chief financial officer Keith Nichols said in a conference call for analysts that he could not confirm the earlier expectation that the Australian operations at Express will return to profit in the fourth quarter.
CEO Peter Bakker said that “cost cutting and restructuring in Australia is well underway and we are seeing encouraging signs of recovery. We hope to break even in the the fourth quarter, but right now it’s too early to tell.”
At the presentation of the full-year results in February, Bakker said that the Australian operations at Express would return to profit by the fourth quarter.
Postmaster General John E. Potter today told mailing industry representatives that the universal mail service their companies and the American public rely on will be in jeopardy, unless there is a fundamental restructuring of the legislative and regulatory framework within which the Postal Service must operate. But a blueprint for change is on the table – a Transformation Plan for the U.S. Postal Service. Submitted to Congress earlier this month, the plan offers recommendations for fundamental long-term legislative reform, while addressing more immediate steps the Postal Service can take to reduce costs and foster growth. Speaking here to more than 2,500 delegates attending the National Postal Forum, Potter emphasized that the plan is not solely about the needs of the Postal Service. ‘It’s about you and the nine million other people who work in the nation’s $900 billion mailing industry,’ he said. ‘It’s about connecting people — preserving a national universal mail service that connects 280 million people, 125 million households, and 10 million businesses.
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