All Contract Wins articles – Page 28
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ArticlePremier Foods expands Jigsaw contract
Haulier consortium Jigsaw, which includes MT Haulier of the Year Downton, Widdowson and Pollock (Scotrans) as members, has been awarded more business from customer Premier Foods.Jigsaw is now responsible for the management of in-bound freight from Premier Foods factories in the East and South-East of England to its DC ...
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ArticleCulina signs distribution deal with Glanbia Consumer Foods
Culina has signed a deal to distribute Weightwatchers low fat spreads and chilled portfolio through its distribution centre in Stafford.The deal with Glanbia Consumer Foods will see Culina handle the Irish food and dairy produce manufacturer’s products throughout the UK.“A bigger presence in the UK is important to us and ...
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ArticleDSV win contract with GoodWe Solar Inverter
DSV Group has won a contract to handle distribution in the UK and Ireland for Chinese energy firm GoodWe Solar Inverter.DSV will handle all stages of the company’s distribution in the UK, with its air & sea freight division handling delivery from China, its warehousing division providing storage and its ...
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ArticleCollectPlus signs deal with Amazon.co.uk
CollectPlus is to offer Amazon.co.uk customers a service that will see parcels delivered to one of its 5,000 stores across the UK.Customers using the online retailer can now opt for a CollectPlus ‘pick up location’ at the checkout, increasing options for delivery and convenience.CollectPlus CEO Mark Lewis says: ...
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ArticleSmiths News win £40m a year News International contact extension
News International (NI) says it is extending its newspaper distribution contract with own-account operator Smiths News, a deal that is worth over £40m a year.The agreement will see Smiths news distributing copies of the Times, Sunday Times and the Sun until 2019, increasing the group’s market share of NI’s wholesale ...
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ArticleNorbert Dentressangle renews Hobart contract
Norbert Dentressangle has won a three year contract renewal with cooking equipment manufacturers Hobart UK, worth over £1m.The deal will see ND deliver cooking equipment, washers and food preparation machines to restaurants, supermarkets, professional kitchens and shops, including Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Nando’s.“After another successful three years, with ND delivering an ...
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ArticleAdvanced Supply Chain wins new contracts with major retailers
Advanced Supply Chain is closer to reaching his £100m annual turnover goal after it exclusively revealed to MT.co.uk that it has secured deals with a number of retailers.Managing director Mike Danby says that in the past few weeks the haulage company has won contracts with customers including DFS, Trespass, ...
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ArticleTNT Post win PRO-CURE contract
TNT Post have signed a two year contract with PRO-CURE, a provider of NHS commercial services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Hampshire, saving the company a forecast £300,000.The contract covers PRO-CURE and its partners NHS Commercial Solutions and the East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub, which will receive a two ...
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ArticleWincanton signs £30m deal with AvantiGas
LPG supplier AvantiGas has extended its partnership with Wincanton, extending its contract by five years in a £30m deal.Wincanton runs a 40-vehicle fleet, from seven sites across the UK for AvantiGas, distributing LPG to commercial and domestic consumers. Driver numbers ranging from 56 during peak winter months to between 30 ...
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ArticleBibby Distribution puts Morrisons consolidation contract InMotion
Bibby Distribution has won a contract with Morrisons to operate five regional consolidation centres (RCC) across the UK.Bibby will operate the five RCC operations from its existing facilities in Yorkshire, the East Midlands, the South East, Staffordshire and the South West. First to go live will be Yorkshire and the ...
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ArticlePentalver signs used vehicle export deal
Pentalver has signed a deal that will see it open a vehicle pre-clearance facility for the export of second-hand vehicles.The deal is a joint venture with New Zealand-based vehicle logistics firm Autohub and Japanese inspection company Jevic and is based at Pentalver’s depot in Felixstowe. The facility has the capacity ...
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DHL Consumer Bawtry awards Milestone £8m recruitment contract
DHL Consumer Bawtry has awarded a contract for the management of both its temporary and permanent staffing requirements to recruitment specialist Milestone.The contract, worth approximately £8m a year, will see Milestone manage LGV drivers, fork lift truck drivers, warehouse operatives and administrative staff at Bawtry, Europe’s single largest multi-user warehousing ...
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ArticleWincanton extends relationship with B&Q
Wincanton has extended its relationship with B&Q, in a deal that sees it handling inbound container logistics as well as planning deliveries across the DIY chain’s national network.The operator, which has managed B&Q’s horticulture distribution for several years, became its sole UK ports-to-distribution centre provider earlier this year.It will handle ...
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ArticleGefco signs seven-year General Motors deal
Gefco has signed a seven-year contract with General Motors to manage inbound and outbound logistics for the US car maker across Europe.As part of the deal, which starts in 2013, Gefco will supply GM assembly sites in the UK, Poland, Spain, Germany and Russia from European suppliers and worldwide ...
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ArticleCeva wins five year Silentnight home delivery contract
Ceva Logistics has won a five-year contract to provide a two-man home delivery service for bed manufacturer Silentnight Group.Under the deal, Ceva's specialist home delivery unit, Ceva Home, will make over 70,000 deliveries a year, collecting mattresses and divan bases from two manufacturing sites in Lancashire and Cumbria and delivering ...
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ArticleWincanton wins £60m Dairy Crest renewal
Wincanton has won a £60m, three-year milk distribution renewal with Dairy Crest, which will extend the firms' partnership to 21 years of working together.The deal will see the logistics giant collecting milk from more than 600 farms across southern England and Wales and transporting it, via a 100-strong fleet, to ...
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ArticleCeva renews Trinity Mirror distribution contract
Ceva Logistics has renewed its contract with newspaper publishers Trinity Mirror for five years, building on a ten-year relationship between the two parties.As part of the contract Ceva makes 33,000 deliveries of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror to Trinity Mirror’s wholesaler network each year.Jon Evans, Ceva’s senior general manager ...
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ArticleSJ Bargh wins organic milk contract
SJ Bargh has signed its first entirely organic milk contract with the Organic Milk Suppliers Cooperative (Omsco)The three-year deal will see the logistics company collecting around 50 million litres of milk a year from farms in Central England, North Wales, Lancashire and Yorkshire.The operation, which began last month, is based ...
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ArticleFowler Welch wins new foodservice contract
Fowler Welch has won a contract with foodservice and retail food supplier Winterbotham Darby.The contract, the value of which was not disclosed, will see Fowler Welch store, pick and dispatch in excess of 5 million cases per year from its facility at Paddock Wood, Kent.Ian Render, operations manager ...
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ArticleDSV seals deal with ATS Euromaster
DSV has awarded a three-year contract to ATS Euromaster to service the tyres on its 7,000-strong European trailer fleet.The deal will see ATS Euromaster’s mobile technicians provide routine inspections and follow-up maintenance work on around 1,000 DSV trailers travelling into and out of the UK every day.Technicians will work ...