TIBBETT & Britten has ‘crossed the Rubicon’ in being a UK-headquartered logistics company whose home base now accounts for just 39% of group revenues, down from 96% a decade ago.
The man behind this change is not Caesar, but T&B chairman John Harvey, whose shock of white hair and distinctive spectacles has been the face of UK logistics for 20 years.
Read MoreThe nation’s 94 door-to-door delivery service companies posted an average of 12.8 billion won ($9.8 million) in annual revenue last year, up 17.3 percent from the previous year, an industry report said, painting a rosy picture of the industry’s outlook.
Read MoreMaersk Logistics has signed a “global mutual support“ agreement with Emirates SkyCargo. The move is part of plans by Maersk Logistics (ML) to expand its air freight forwarding services and reputation which it sees as crucial to its position as an integrated global logistics provider.
Read MoreIf the Royal Mail, or Consignia as it now prefers to be known, provided a quality service, there would be little need to consider big changes this week in the market for delivering letters.
Consignia does not provide such a service. It has failed to achieve its first-class mail delivery target in each of the past six years. Its 200,000 employees are responsible for more strikes than any other industry. It made its first operating loss last year. And the departure of Neville Bain as chairman has left a management vacuum, which the government, Consignia’s sole shareholder, has been slow to fill.
25 Jan 2002 UTi bought the Spanish Logistics operator Grupo SLI for a total consideration, including earn out of $25-30m
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