TNT NV has won a three-year contract from tyre maker Pirelli Tyres Australia (PTA) for the provision of logistics services to Pirelli Tyres, TNT said on December 16, 2005. No financial details of the deal were provided. Under the contract, TNT’s unit TNT Logistics will provide services to Pirelli Tyres’ Australian customers from a central warehouse in Sydney and regional distribution centres in Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.
Read MorePrinter RR Donnelley & Sons Company acquired print-and-mail services company Critical Mail Continuity Services Ltd. CMCS, based in Britain, serves financial services, telecommunications, utility, government and other large organizations with disaster recovery, business continuity, digital print and print-and-mail services. Clients use it to ensure that vital communications are not interrupted by catastrophic damage to in-house processing centers and to handle peak-period volumes.
Read MoreWhy anyone would abandon the comfort zone of life at the top in corporate Britain to work for the government is an utter mystery. It is even more so when the new job is running the Postal Commission, or Postcom. Why anyone would abandon the comfort zone of life at the top in corporate Britain to work for the government is an utter mystery. It is the body charged with making sure the notoriously inefficient Royal Mail is doing a good job and that the postal worker feels the hot breath of competition on the collar. The avuncular Nigel Stapleton, Postcom chairman, believes his background in industry was just the kind of training he needed to make sure that the Royal Mail does better and actually manages to deliver the Christmas post on time.
Read MoreTNT NV said Karstadt Quelle AG has renewed and expanded a five-year contract worth over 100 mln eur with a unit of TNT’s Mail division, for the distribution of a variety of parcel consignments. From 2006 onwards, it will deliver several million parcels each year for various KarstadtQuelle units in the Netherlands, including Quelle Nederland, Neckermann Nederland and Bonaparte.
Read MoreMajestic Wine Warehouses has launched a nationwide delivery service, called Gift Solutions, using Amtrak’s specialist wine service.
Majestic has only made deliveries in-house to addresses near its shops, which it will continue to do. Distribution will be from Majestic’s centre in Enfield to destinations across the UK.
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