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All Operator news articles – Page 221
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TNT UK annual loss up by a third ahead of FedEx purchase
TNT UK’s pre-tax loss ballooned to £22.1m last year ahead of its acquisition by FedEx Corporation in May 2016.New accounts published at Companies House show the business’s year-on-year loss increased 32.3% compared with a loss of £16.7m a year earlier.Turnover in the year ended 31 December 2015 fell 1% to ...
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GMB to ballot members at Bidvest Logistics in pay dispute
Union GMB is to ballot members at Bidvest Logistics after the company reconsidered the amount it was to increase employees’ pay by.The union said Bidvest had originally offered employees a 1% increase in basic pay, but this was cut to 0.8% to allow it to meet its national living wage ...
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ArticleGordon Leslie completes rebranding of its warehousing business, Benchmark Packaging
Gordon Leslie Group has completed the rebranding of its Glasgow-based warehousing and bonded storage business Benchmark Packaging, which it purchased in December 2014.This includes putting newly liveried trailer (pictured) on the road.The operator said Benchmark Packaging, which offers specialist bonded storage and contract packing services mainly for the whisky ...
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David Batty joins Abbey Logistics Group
Abbey Logistics Group has appointed Motor Transport Hall of Fame resident David Batty to lead its engineering department. Former chief operations engineer of supermarket Somerfield, Batty joins the company with more than 40 years of industry experience.He was awarded the Motor Transport Award for Service to Industry in 2007, and ...
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ArticleAmazon announces third new fulfilment centre for 2017
03.09.12-New Amazon Fulfillment Centre, Boundary Way, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 7LFAmazon is to open a fulfilment centre in Daventry, Northamptonshire next year. It is the third new site the company has announced plans for in recent months. As well as the Daventry site, which will create 300 jobs in the local ...
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ArticleBoots UK takes delivery of the first of 60 Transdek/Cartwright trailers
Boots UK has received the first of 60 double decker trailers from Transdek and The Cartwright Group, which are intended to reduce its trunking mileage. The double-deck wedge trailers can accommodate 128 roll cages. This will improve the company’s individual trailer capacity, which is currently 104 cages per load.Boots said ...
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Menzies wards off strike action with improved pay offer
Menzies Distribution has seen off the threat of strike action after making an improved pay offer to its 300 drivers and warehouse staff.The workforce voted to approve the pay offer by “a significant majority”, according to union Unite, preventing widespread strike action which would have included two 24-hour strikes on ...
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ArticleTurners (Soham) adds 600th Daf FTP to fleet
Turners (Soham) has added its 600th specialised Daf FTP to its fleet. The 440hp XF tractor with a lightweight mid-lift axle joins Turners’ 1,750-strong fleet.Turners is believed to be the largest operator of Daf FTP trucks worldwide.The Daf, purchased via dealership Chassis Cab, will cover more than 100,000km a year.Tim ...
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ArticleWolseley UK plans to close Worcester DC
Plumbing and heating supplier Wolseley UK plans to close its Worcester DC to make £30m of savings.The reorganisation of its logistics and supply chain network, as well as the closure of 80 UK branches, will result in 800 redundancies.MD Patrick Headon said: “The trends in our profit have been disappointing ...
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ArticleCulina Group unveils Great new livery
Culina Great BearCulina Group has given itself a makeover to incorporate its newest brand as part of its corporate image.The group bought Great Bear Distribution back in March for an undisclosed sum.It has stayed true to its promise of retaining the company’s name, while designing a new look that clearly ...
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Deutsche Post DHL to buy UK Mail for £243m
Deutsche Post DHL has reached an agreement to buy UK Mail, in a deal that values the delivery company at £242.7m.DHL said the cash offer is part of an ongoing expansion of its European parcel network, designed to meet demand for more cross-border deliveries from its customers.The acquisition comes after ...
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ArticleAnglia Freight opens new cross dock facility
Suffolk-based Anglia Freight has opened a new cross-dock facility at its site at the Mid Suffolk Business Park. Representatives from Palletline and Hazchem, of which Anglia Freight has been a member since 1995 and 1997 respectively, officially opened the new £500,000 facility.The site boasts 17,000ft² of covered loading and unloading ...
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Drivers at Arla Foods' closed Hatfield Peverel site opted for redundancy
Twenty four Arla Foods drivers took redundancy after the firm’s decision to close its Hatfield Peverel dairy processing plant in July rather than transfer to a new employer, Motortransport.co.uk has learnt.The 24 drivers, along with seven logistics staff, were set to be transferred to PCL 24/7. The firm is owned ...
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Strike action at Menzies Distribution put on hold
Imminent strike action at Menzies Distribution has been suspended after the company made an improved pay offer, Unite said today.Members of the union were to hold two 24-hour strikes on the 23 and 26 September over what it has described as a “pitiful” pay offer.According to the union the dispute ...
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DX Group experiences second-half comeback in tough trading year
DX Group delivered an improved performance in the second half of its trading year, but this wasn't enough to offset the damage done earlier on, the operator said today.In the company’s preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2016, DX Group CEO Petar Cvetkovic described a “challenging year”, which ...
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ArticleDawsongroup CEO Mike Williams steps down; Steve Miller replaces him
Dawsongroup CEO Mike Williams is leaving the company due to ill health.Williams, who joined the truck, trailer rental business 40 years ago, will be replaced by group MD Steve Miller (pictured). Miller will assume the CEO role.Group chairman, Peter Dawson, paid tribute to Williams’ “energy, commitment and commercial ability,” and ...
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Menzies Distribution stands firm in the face of strike action
Menzies Distribution has put “robust” contingencies in place to ensure service continuity, after the Unite union said its members would strike next week over a pay dispute.Members of Unite will hold two 24-hour strikes on the 23 and 26 September over what the union describes as a “pitiful” pay offer.According ...
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ArticleBiffa seeks £270m stock market listing
Waste collection company Biffa is planning a return to the London Stock Exchange next month.The company has published details of an October listing, which would value the company at around £270m.It is looking to raise the additional funds to grow organically but also act as a consolidator in the fragmented ...
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DX Group's Scottish takeover back on track
DX Group’s multi-million pound takeover of Legal Post (Scotland) and First Post appears to be back on track, after the UK competition authority lifted an enforcement order pausing the deal.In a statement today, DX Group said the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had lifted its initial enforcement order.Enforcement orders ...
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Losses widen at Bibby Supply Chain Services
A sting in the tail from the disposal of System Group, coupled with client departures, contract delays and restructuring at its distribution business, saw losses widen at Bibby Supply Chain Services last year.For the year ended 31 December 2015, Bibby Supply Chain Services made a pre-tax loss of £6.2m compared ...