All Operator news articles – Page 308
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Menzies buys Oban Express to increase Scottish reach
Menzies Distribution has bought Scottish parcels carrier Oban Express to boost its service offering in remote locations. Oban Express operates depots in Oban and Glasgow, and runs 45 vehicles compared with Menzies' 240-strong fleet.Menzies Distribution MD Forsyth Black said the acquisition would make it easier “for customers in Western Scotland ...
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UK Mail chief executive steps down after hub debacle
UK Mail chief executive Guy Buswell (pictured) has stepped down with immediate effect, after the installation of incompatible parcel sorting technology at its purpose built new hub.His departure comes just a week after UK Mail’s interim results showed even greater losses than had been anticipated.It has begun a search for ...
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Brit European closes Belgian sister-company and pulls plug on carpet distribution business
Brit European Transport has pulled out of the UK carpet distribution business following the voluntary liquidation of its Belgium-based sister company, which specialises in the warehousing and distribution of carpets to the UK. The company insisted that the demise of Zeebrugge-based Brit European Transport NV would not have any long ...
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Fowler Welch doubles profit in first half of financial year
Food distribution specialist Fowler Welch more than doubled its operating profit in the first half of the current financial year, its interim report shows. Released today, the results for the six month period ending 30 September 2015 show a 118% increase in the firm’s operating profit to £3.5m (2014: £1.6m).However ...
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MT ArticleBlakemore Logistics buys first Mercedes tractor units
Blakemore Logistics, a subsidiary of AF Blakemore Group, has welcomed a series of Mercedes-Benz trucks to its fleet for the first time, following a successful 12 month trial with an Actros tractor unit.The operator, which serves more than 1,000 Spar stores across England and Wales, has already put five 4x2 ...
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DHL Supply Chain strikes averted after last-minute pay offer
Warehouse workers at DHL Supply Chain’s Cherwell Campus site in Banbury, Oxfordshire, have called off a series of one-day strikes over a long-running pay dispute after accepting a revised deal from the logistics services provider. Following a ballot earlier this month in which the GMB union secured firm backing for ...
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Belfast City Link staff receive pay out as case against former directors dismissed
The former directors of collapsed parcel carrier City Link have been cleared of failing to inform the government of impending staff redundancies before it went into administration last year.The case against David Smith, Robert Peto and Thomas Wright was dismissed by Coventry Magistrates’ Court last week (13 November), a spokeswoman ...
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MT ArticleRoyal Mail profit falls by almost a third as it invests for the future
Profit fell by almost a third at Royal Mail in the first half of the current financial year, as the business invested heavily as part of its ongoing modernisation.A trading statement for the six months ending 27 September 2015 released today records a 30% decline in pre-tax profit, which fell ...
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UK Mail sees profit slashed by 80%
UK Mail saw its profit tumble by more than 80% in the six months ending 30 September 2015, after its relocation to a new hub and “teething issues” with the facility’s technology. The group’s pre-tax profit for the period was £2.2m, compared to £12m in 2014 - a fall of ...
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Asda opens up click and collect to third-party online retailers
Asda has taken the “game-changing” step of offering its store click-and-collect service to other online retailers.The grocery retailer, part of US retail giant Walmart, has invested in IT and other systems to enable it to push all its george.com clothing click-and-collect store deliveries through its own distribution network. It is ...
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Driver shortage blamed for profit warning at DX Group
DX Group has issued a profit warning, citing the shortage of HGV drivers as a key factor in driving up costs.In a trading update the company warned that a driver shortage, pricing pressures, volume erosion at its secure delivery service DX Exchange, and the slow conversion of its new parcels ...
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MT ArticleKnights of Old celebrates Penguin contract extension with branded trailers
Knights of Old Group has put two Penguin-branded SDC urban trailers on the road to celebrate a three-year extension to its contract with publisher Penguin Random House UK, taking their relationship to more than 12 years. The contract will see it continue to deliver books out of the publisher’s warehouses ...
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MT ArticleDPD opens four new depots ahead of Christmas peak
DPD has opened the fourth in its series of new “super depots” ahead of what it expects to be its busiest Christmas peak period to date. The new depot in Stoke was opened yesterday (16 November), joining new sites in Cardiff, Dagenham, and Exeter, which opened between August and October.The ...
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Contract logistics growth boosts Wincanton half-year turnover
A strong performance in Wincanton’s contract logistics business saw turnover jump in the first half of its financial year, but losses in its Pullman Fleet Services division slowed profit growth.Group turnover increased 5.8% to £582.8m in the six months to 30 September (2014: £550.9m), mainly driven by strong volumes in ...
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MT ArticlePanther Warehousing opens new Bristol hub
Two-man delivery firm Panther Warehousing has opened a new Bristol hub to expand its presence across the South West as part of a £3m five-year investment programme.Taking Panther’s depot network to seven, the new 25,000ft² facility is located close to the M4 on the Pucklechurch Trading Estate, Pucklechurch, north east ...
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Europa "feels like a different business" as turnover rises 9%
Andrew Baxter, MD of Europa Worldwide Group, has said that the international groupage specialist “feels like a different business” just two years after he acquired a 90% stake in the Dartford-based operator.His comments came after Europa published figures for the financial year-ending 31 December 2014, during which it had a ...
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MT ArticleWH Malcolm enjoys year of gains
WH Malcolm saw both turnover and profit climb in its most recent financial year.The Linwood-based logistics and construction services group, saw turnover in the year to 31 January 2015 rise 11.2% to £199.9m (2014: £179.7m).Trading profit, before asset gain, increased 11% to £7.1m (2014: £6.4m), which the multi-modal operator described ...
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MT ArticleFish haulier scales up use of Carrier fridge units
Scottish haulier The Real McKay has taken delivery of six new tri-axle Gray & Adams trailers fitted with Carrier Transicold’s Vector 1350 fridge unit – the lightest refrigeration system in the Vector range. Weighing in at 645kg, the Vector 1350 is between 59kg and 266kg lighter than other Vector models, ...
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MT ArticleTurners (Soham) predicts turnover growth in 2015 despite Greenergy loss
Turners (Soham) experienced a loss of a major contract in its tanker division that led to a slight decline in turnover and profit during its most recent financial year, MD Paul Day said.Following a move by customer Greenergy to take the delivery of fuel to supermarket group Sainsbury in house ...
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MT ArticleWe’re gonna need a bigger truck: Roy Bowles Transport delivers shark
Roy Bowles Transport made a snappy delivery of two sand tiger sharks, an example of which is pictured, to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth last week. The Heathrow-based operator proved that the task was not out of its depth by delivering the killer cargo from the airport to the ...