National Courier Awards 2019 at the IOD
Life services, seven gongs and nineteen courier silver Cs for 2019
Step-change award to DPD for electric vehicle micro-hub
Hermes take team award
Diamond win diversity
Clipper take fresh start recruitment.
Life Services win to Alistair Cochrane Whistl
Three winners further nominated for fellow by awards chair Adrian Smith
Will Friar Rush Couriers, Monica Pound CitySprint & Monika Haromszeki Hermes.
Progression in our sector
Mandy Freedman, former road National Courier awards winner comes back to win an office category.
Clean air for final mile double-take with two winners
GLA Gnewt & City of London CitySprint cargo bike parking
Twenty-three years of final-mile excellence for National Courier Awards
Rattle the clappers, light-show and fanfares for the best-of-the-best in Express final-mile courier.
Best of the Best final mile in the UK recognised by independent panel of judges at the Institute of Couriers National Awards 2019
National Courier Awards 2019 at the IOD
Life services, seven gongs and nineteen courier silver Cs for 2019
Step-change award to DPD for electric vehicle micro-hub
Hermes take team award
Diamond win diversity
Clipper take fresh start recruitment.
Life Services win to Alistair Cochrane Whistl
Three winners further nominated for fellow by awards chair Adrian Smith
Will Friar Rush Couriers, Monica Pound CitySprint & Monika Haromszeki Hermes.
Progression in our sector
Mandy Freedman, former road National Courier awards winner comes back to win an office category.
Clean air for final mile double-take with two winners
GLA Gnewt & City of London CitySprint cargo bike parking
In keeping with tradition, shortlisted candidates assemble on the Balcony & Stair of the IoD before being presented to the IOC Vice President, and VIPs and the National Courier Awards ceremony begins; 2019 marks the 23rd year of the awards.
DPD for ‘Safety Above and Beyond in the final mile.’
Diamond Logistics for their “Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion” Innovation policy
Clipper’s Fresh Start programme
The City of London Corporation and GLA Gnewt Collaboration.
Fernando Lopes de Silva - Addison Lee
Ailton Sena - Addison Lee
2025 – Life services went to Simi Punn TVS. 18 senior IOC fellows gowned at House of Lords.
2024 – Hon fellow and keynote address to Nigel Milton – Heathrow
2023 - Two honorands, TfL commissioner Andy Lord and former Aldermanic Sheriff Alison Gowman. A new President, as Viscount Falkland passes on the mantle to Peter, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill. Two dozen new fellows are received in line.
2022 – Two honorands, TfL commissioner Andy Byford and head of the DVSA Loveday Ryder – Services to Industry for Trevor Hoyle, a thousand years of service in the ceremonial fellows of 2022.
2018 - John Hayes CBE elected new Vice President, Honorary Fellowship awarded to Leon Daniels. Kate Lester takes Services to Industry hood.
2017 - The honorary gown was awarded to Heathrow boss John Holland-Kaye.
2016 - Fellows hand the gown to their President and recognise eighty years...New TfL boss took honorary fellowship & first-ever honorary associateship for the Army. Viscount, Lord Falkland, celebrating his eighty years...Sixty-four years since Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne...TfL boss Mike Brown awarded the hon fellowship, 12 new Fellows were gowned by IOC President Viscount, Lord Falkland.
Gowning galleries
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