All Operator news articles – Page 369
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MT ArticleAdvanced Supply Chain wins three-year Matalan contract
Advanced Supply Chain (ASC) has won a three-year contract with Matalan to handle the fashion chain’s pre-retail distribution. The deal will see ASC deliver approximately 10 million garments a year to Matalan’s DCs.The Bradford firm says it won the contract after its audit of Matalan’s supply chain, which identified the ...
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MT ArticleWiddowson Group picked for Waitrose Midlands logistics
The Widdowson Group has been appointed as the Midlands logistics partner for Waitrose, the first time a third party has been selected by the supermarket to cover this region of the country.Waitrose has previously only nominated carriers to assist with distribution work in the North and South of the UK.The ...
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MT ArticleUK Mail hit with a £2m restructure cost
UK Mail Group’s depot closure programme will cost it approximately £2m as it looks to continue to cut costs.In a pre-close trading update for the year ended 31 March, UK Mail says the closure of four depots in the past 12 months will leave it with a low-cost and integrated ...
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MT ArticleHermes wins five-year New Look deal
Hermes has been awarded a five-year contract with fashion chain New Look to handle the home delivery of the retailer’s e-commerce orders.Delivering more than three million parcels per year to UK households, the goods will first be collected from New Look’s fulfilment hub in Lichfield, Staffs, before being transported to ...
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MT ArticleNFT wins Adams Foods primary distribution deal
NFT has beaten rivals to a primary logistics contract with Adams Foods, that will run for a minimum of three years.Operated from NFT’s flagship Daventry DC, the deal will include the handling of more than 3,500 pallets per week of cheese and butter products, including Kerrygold and Pilgrims’ Choice brands. ...
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Miniclipper bids farewell to Pall-Ex
Miniclipper Logistics is leaving Pall-Ex after more than 15 years with the network to join rival Palletline.The Leighton Buzzard-based firm was one of the founding members of Pall-Ex went it launched in 1996. Jayne Masters, sales director at Miniclipper, tells MT.co.uk that it wasn’t an easy decision to make.“Periodically, every ...
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MT ArticleGefco revenue up ahead of "decisive year"
Gefco, the logistics arm of PSA Group, saw its global revenue rise 12.9% in 2011 as it prepares to embark on what it describes as a “decisive year” for the company.For 2011 Gefco reported global revenue of €3.8bn, compared to €3.4bn a year ago, and an operating income of €223m ...
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MT ArticlePeter Larner acts to improve image of logistics
Following on from Alastair Campbell's thought-provoking presentation on how the transport industry can get its message across to the public at the last MT Directors' Club, Suckling Transport MD Pater Larner is taking action.A new Suckling Transport tank trailer, which is being exhibited by Lakeland Tankers at the Federation of ...
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MT ArticleNorbert Dentressangle opens £1m NDC
Norbert Dentressangle (ND) says it has invested more than £1m in a new shared-user site at Rugby, to serve as an NDC for Continental Tyre Group.The new 212,000ft² facility, located in Prologis Central Park just off J1 of the M6, will also store products from fellow ND customer Bridgestone ...
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MT ArticleSensible acquisition will add £6m a year to Autologic
Autologic says its acquisition of the assets of Sensible Transport will add £6m a year to its revenue, but warns that automotive customers remain “focused strongly on price”.For the year ending 31 December 2011, Autologic saw its UK revenue rise 4% to £114.5m (2010: £110.6m) but operating profit in its ...
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MT ArticleWincanton hit by decline in volumes
Wincanton has warned that a decline in customers’ volumes and a reduced demand for warehousing will “adversely affect” the business in the next 12 months.In a trading update issued today (Tuesday 3 April), the group says that while it has successfully retained and won new contracts across all sectors, market ...
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MT ArticleK+N sell off Renault Trucks dealership
Logistic company Kuehne + Nagel has sold its Renault Trucks dealership RH Commercial Vehicles for an undisclosed sum, a year after it bought its parent company The RH Group for £66.9m.The new owners of the East Midlands dealership, that employs 55 people, include its current MD Nigel Baxter and general ...
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MT ArticleYodel well prepared for Olympic challenge
Yodel has announced its plans for ensuring deliveries are handled effectively throughout the busy Olympic Games period this summer.The parcel firm's contingency plans include informing customers of those postcodes most likely to experience delays; the creation of a dedicated 'Olympics Village HQ' at Yodel's Vauxhall depot in central London; as ...
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MT ArticleDHL to close Coventry depot serving Sainsbury's
DHL is to close its Coventry depot, which it runs on behalf of retailer J Sainsbury, in a move that places 550 jobs at risk.The logistics giant plans to transfer the garment operations currently undertaken at Coventry for the retailer to another of its sites in Bedford.A DHL spokeswoman ...
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MT ArticleRoad transport operators prepare for fuel shortage
Truck fleet operators are drawing up contingency plans in the event of a national strike by fuel tanker drivers.Unite union leaders representing more than 2,000 tanker drivers working for Wincanton, DHL, BP, Hoyer, J W Suckling, Norbert Dentressangle and Turners (Soham) are locked in talks with employers over a dispute ...
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MT ArticleDBC Foodservice in administration
Own-account operator DBC Foodservice has been put into administration, after attempts to sell the business failed.By Chris DruceThe £300m turnover company supplies some of the best known cafes, restaurants and bars on the high Street including Café Nero, Prezzo, Loch Fyne and vodka bar chain Revolution.Other customers include hotels, local ...
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MT ArticleMcDowell's reveals rapid expansion
Fast-growing Keighley, West Yorkshire haulier McDowell Haulage and Distribution says work will begin shortly on a new 25,000ft2 warehouse in order to keep up with demand.The company, which has contracts to transport school furniture and cosmetics and is also a member of The Pallet Network, opened a new depot in ...
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TNT Post reveals second end-to-end postal trial
TNT Post is to conduct a second end-to-end delivery trial from mid-April in west London, following the successful conclusion of a final-mile trial in Liverpool.The private postal operator has held long-term ambitions to roll-out a complete end-to-end service rivalling Royal Mail, but says it has been unable to achieve this ...
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MT ArticleIncrease in fuel duty is a disaster, says Hermes
Home delivery specialist Hermes has branded the Chancellor’s decision to implement a 3ppl rise in fuel duty as “a disaster for the haulage sector”.Jon Tobbell, commercial director at Hermes, says: “Whilst we welcome the freeze in Vehicle Excise Duty, it pales into significance when compared to the pain being ...
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MT ArticleHellmann targets Iberian growth
Hellmann UK has launched a freight partnership with a Portuguese logistics company that increases the number of round trip road freight services to the country each week.The partnership with Rangel Express and Logistics enables Hellmann to undertake three direct level departures to Oporto and Lisbon and the company says ...