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SME Special: Strategies for logistics success
Competing in the third party logistics market is never easy, but SMEs can point to a number of advantages, says Malory Davies. This article appears in the January 2016 issue of Logistics Manager Third...
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Black Friday 2015: has the beast been tamed?
Black Friday saw record sales, quiet high streets and almost seamless logistics. But was it all really worth it? Alexandra Leonards explores the ups and downs of Black Friday 2015, and examines the...
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Hermes to offer delivery time windows
Hermes has introduced a service that offers online customers an Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) for both next day and standard delivery, as well as for returns. It will initially run a four-hour time...
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Menzies buys Aberdeen’s Thistle Couriers
Menzies Distribution has acquired Thistle Couriers of Aberdeen for an undisclosed sum – its third acquisition in the Scottish highlands in the past year. Thistle Couriers, which was formed in 1998,...
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Abney becomes chairman of UPS
UPS chief executive officer David Abney is taking over as chairman of the group from Scott Davis who is retiring. David Abney, chairman and CEO of UPS. UPS has also created a new lead independent...
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Mail tunnels to open at new museum
London’s newest tourist attraction – The Postal Museum – is due to open early next year in Clerkenwell, and will include Mail Rail – an attraction based on the miniature tunnels of the world’s first...
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Home deliveries blamed for slower traffic speeds
Average speeds on local A roads in England are now some three per cent slower than a year ago – and some commentators are now blaming the growth of home deliveries for the slowdown, writes Malory...
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TNT operating profit ahead of FedEx takeover
TNT Express made an operating profit of €38 million in 2015, compared to an operating loss of €86m in 2014, while revenue was up 3.5 per cent to €6.9 billion. The company, which is the subject of a...
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Online delivery and ‘Click and Collect’ to double in 10 years
Online delivery and Click and Collect are set to double in the UK over the next decade because 40 per cent of non-food sales will be made online, research by OC&C Strategy Consultants has found....
View ArticleUPS to invest $100m in CNG trucks
UPS is to invest $100 million in compressed natural gas for its transport fleet, building 12 additional CNG fuelling stations and adding 380 CNG tractors to its fleet. “At UPS, we own our fleet and our...
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Parcelforce and Palletways partner up
Palletways has won a three-year contract with Parcelforce Worldwide – it will now act as the company’s pallet service provider. Palletways will offer a number of service options including: a pallet AM...
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Royal Mail acquires Intersoft
Royal Mail has acquired international shipping software company Intersoft Systems and Programming. This comes after the postal service’s purchase of NetDespatch and delivery software developer...
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Home delivery: Parcel dilemma
Parcel carriers have been investing heavily to ensure they can meet peak season demand. But, asks Johanna Parsons, what about the rest of the year? This article first appeared in the March 2016 issue...
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Revenue slips at UK Mail
UK Mail expects revenue to fall by about one per cent for the year to 31st March, the company said in a trading statement. This is mainly the result a “mix effect” in the mail operation which has...
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UK Mail rebrands
Mail and parcel delivery company UK Mail has rebranded – it has a new logo, strapline (‘We deliver’) and web site. “As a leader in the UK mail and parcel delivery market, our visual identity needed to...
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Aldi picks iForce for new e-commerce operation
Aldi has awarded iForce a long-term contract to deliver a range of fulfilment services for Aldi’s non-food e-commerce platform. Aldi revealed plans to launch an e-commerce operation in September last...
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Amazon ‘Prime Now’ expands to Surrey
Amazon has launched its one-hour delivery service ‘Prime Now’ in parts of Surrey. The one-hour service is available to Prime members in selected postcodes including: Camberley, Lightwarer and...
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Only 4 pc of shoppers care about next day delivery
New research by HGVtraining.co.uk has found that only four per cent of shoppers surveyed thought next day delivery was important when buying online. 67 per cent were influenced by the price, 57 per...
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Underlying growth for TNT
TNT increased underlying revenue by 4.2 per cent to €1.6 billion for the first quarter of 2016, and, although it made an operating loss of €1m, this was a €10m improvement on last year. The results,...
View ArticleWhistl delivers economy mail for Jersey Post
Postal operator Whistl has expanded its partnership with Jersey Post, the mail company serving Jersey, by delivering the its new economy mail option. Whistl has provided downstream access services,...
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