All Contract Wins articles – Page 19
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Royal Mail wins two-year London councils contract
Royal Mail has won a two-year contract to collect and deliver bulk mail for councils across London.The contract was awarded following a competitive tender in which 14 London councils collaborated to reduce delivery costs, using the Government Procurement Service's bidding process.The operator will collect and deliver council documents, including polling ...
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MT ArticleDHL secures five-year extension with Boots UK
DHL Supply Chain has had its contract with Boots UK extended by five years.The operator will continue to cover national cross-docking and transport to the high street retailer’s 2,500 stores nationwide until 2018, including chilled transport.The extended contract,which builds on a 15-year relationship, will also see DHL manage national primary ...
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Bibby wins 10-year Lucite International contract renewal
Bibby Distribution has secured a 10-year contract renewal with acrylic product designer and manufacturer Lucite International.The multi-million pound deal will see it continue to manage operations for Lucite at Bibby's site in Walker Park, Blackburn.The contract covers managing and consolidating inbound products, picking stock, and cutting Perspex and Lucite sheets.It ...
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Lubbers Transport Group wins £3m Centrica Energy contract
Lubbers Transport Group (LTG) has won a £3m contract with Centrica Energy to provide transport for its exploration and production business.The three-year contract will see Lubbers cover local road transport in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth, as well as trunking between the two sites. It features the option to extend after ...
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SJ Bargh awarded Muller-Wiseman contract
Lancashire-based operator SJ Bargh has been awarded a contract to collect and transport raw milk for Müller-Wiseman Dairies.The deal will see the operator collect from farms in the north west of England and deliver into Müller-Wiseman’s dairy at Trafford Park, Manchester.Michael Sidley, the commercial director for SJ Bargh, said: “This ...
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MT ArticleLife's Good for Yusen Logistics after LG Electronics win
Yusen Logistics has won a contract to deliver LG Electronics logistics subsidiary Hi Logistics UK to deliver products throughout the UK.The contract will see Yusen deliver LGs complete product range, from audio visiual products to kitchen appliances, collecting from Hi Logistics’ DC in Ryton near Coventry for onward delivery to ...
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DHL secures £30m Virgin Trains contract
DHL Supply Chain has won a three-year contract with Virgin Trains to provide transport for its on-board catering.The £30m contract will see DHL’s food service business deliver products for the train operator’s west coast mainline, which stretches between London Euston station and Glasgow.The operator will use its ‘Focus’ warehouse management ...
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MT ArticleYodel has Tour of Britain contract renewed
Yodel has had its contract to provide the logistics for The Tour of Britain extended by five years.The operator will continue to be the official logistics partner for the cycling event and will transport thousands of tonnes of equipment and race infrastructure across the country using a fleet of 30 ...
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MT ArticleND delivers Lego Movie props
Norbert Dentressangle has delivered Lego props and models in time for the first screenings of The Lego Movie in London.The operator’s specialist services arm provided two-man delivery of the props to the Vue cinema in Leicester Square.The delivery included Lego models of the film’s characters Emmet and Wyldstyle, large ...
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MT ArticleP&O Ferrymasters wins £187m Tata Steel deal
P&O Ferrymasters has won a new €225m (£187m) pan-European road transport contract with Tata Steel Europe (TSE).The three-year deal, which commenced last month, sees goods collected from TSE’s UK hubs in south Wales, Corby and Scunthorpe, for delivery across Europe, with cross-border distribution co-ordinated from Ijmuiden steelworks in The Netherlands.Transport ...
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MT ArticleHonda extends Yusen contract
Honda of the UK Manufacturing (HUM) and Yusen Logistics have renewed their contract, extending a partnership that goes back to 2006.In 2011 Yusen was appointed sole provider for HUM inbound collections, supporting the manufacture of the Civic, Jazz and CRV in Swindon. Previously it had been appointed in 2006 to ...
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MT ArticleBibby wins multi-million Seabrook Crisps contract renewal
Bibby Distribution has secured a three-year contract renewal with Seabrook Crisps in a multi-million pound deal.The new part of the deal will see it distribute around 3.5m packets of crisps per week from Bibby’s 530,000ft² multi-user warehouse in Yeadon, West Yorkshire.It will use a mix of dedicated and multi-user vehicles ...
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MT ArticleBedfords wins five-year Associated Newspapers contract extension
Bedfords Group has won a five-year contract extension with Associated Newspapers, covering distribution of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.The Yorkshire operator will distribute to two titles across the UK until October 2018, delivering to 60 wholesalers and covering 140,000 miles every night.It has also been named as ...
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MT ArticleRoadways Container Logistics awarded contract renewal with EWL
Roadways Container LogisticsRoadways Container Logistics has secured a three-year contract extension with frozen food supply chain company Edge Worldwide Logistics (EWL).Roadways already manages more than 200 movements a week for EWL, and has a member of staff based at the client’s Salford headquarters responsible for co-ordinating container movements.Alan Edge, CEO ...
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Heroic effort proves fulfilling for Clipper
Clipper Logistics has won a contract to operate an efulfilment solution for the trading arm of military charity Help for Heroes. The logistics firm will be shipping a wide range of clothing, accessories, homeware and gift items worldwide from its Enfield shared-user site for Help for Heroes Trading, which previously ...
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Meachers to operate the Southampton Sustainable Distribution Centre
Meachers Global Logistics has won the contract to run the Southampton Sustainable Distribution Centre (SDC).The operation will be launched at a 20,000ft² site on the Nursling Industrial Estate on 3 February and will serve customers in Southampton, Winchester, Eastleigh, Hedge End, Totton and the New Forest.Deliveries of consumer goods will ...
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MT ArticleNorbert Dentressangle wins bumper crop protection contract
Norbert Dentressangle (ND) has pipped its rivals to a three-year storage and distribution contract with pesticides firm Makhteshim-Agan (MAUK). Following a competitive tender, ND will handle incoming products, the provision of bonded storage at its Top Tier COMAH facility at Amber Park, near Mansfield, and the onward distribution of customer ...
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Fini Sweets outsources UK warehousing and distribution to Palletways
Confectionery manufacturer Fini Sweets has outsourced its warehousing and distribution in the UK to Palletways’ warehousing business Palletways Fulfilment.The contract will be ran out of the network’s 100,000ft² hub in Fradley Park, Lichfield, where it will store perishable products, process orders, pick and pack orders, and modify and re-work some ...
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WHSmith extends relationship with Wincanton
Wincanton has won a three-year extension to its transport management contract with WHSmith.The extension covers Wincanton’s work for the retailer’s hubs in Swindon, Dunstable and Birmingham, as well as its partners in the South West, North West and Scotland.Wincanton has introduced telematics to its fleet as part of the contract, ...
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TNT Express wins Gibson musical instrument delivery contract
TNT Express has won a contract to become the exclusive express delivery provider for musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer and Gibson.The 18-month contract will cover the delivery of Gibson’s full range of products, including its famous electric and acoustic guitars, across Gibson's EMEA region.Using its road network, TNT will ...