A pre-peak commitment to client with 45% more parcel capacity on the Hermes network. Rugby looks set to raise the bar once more as e-retail takes further High Street numbers to home delivery.
Hermes UK boss, Carole Woodhead,
This is the largest parcel hub of its kind in the UK. We are extremely proud to officially open our Midlands super hub.
Bob Holt CEO DX hands over to Ron Series mid August.
In the same week, DX and John Menzies have terminated talks on merger. ‘It was not possible to agree suitable terms for the deal.’
DX shareholder Gatemore, Liad Meidar,
Bob Holt’s stewardship of the company throughout a challenging period and believe that the board arrived at the right conclusion with the Menzies transaction. We strongly believe that with leading positions in document exchange, secure delivery and IDW freight, DX is well positioned to thrive as a stand-alone basis.
Peter Kane, founder of Business Post (1971) later UK Mail as former interim Chairman at UK Mail has handed over the reins to Peter Fuller after the £500m acquisition by Deutsche Post DHL Group in December 2016.
Minister for Employment, Damian Hinds, Wed Aug 16th said:
There are now 338,000 more people in work compared to this time last year.
DWP reported this week, OVER 3 MILLION MORE PEOPLE IN WORK SINCE 2010
- Employment rate at record high 75.1% with a record 32.07 million people in work.
- Unemployment down 57,000 on the quarter and is at lowest rate since 1975.
- The number of people in employment has increased by 3 million since 2010, with over 75% of the increase being in full time work.
Official figures released today show the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.4% – the lowest level since 1975.
According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of people in work is at the highest level since records began in 1971. The record figures have been driven by increases in the number of people in secure work – over 75% of the increase in employment over the past seven years has been in full-time work.
The next step of exploding home delivery evolution began this week as Britain’s biggest grocer, Tesco, announced same-day from over 300 stores UK-wide. This brings Tesco same-day first to market, ahead of AmazonFresh.
Adrian Letts, MD of Tesco Online, said:
Customers tell us they like getting their shopping delivered quickly and conveniently, and with our same day delivery service they can now order by lunch to get their shopping delivered for their evening meal.
Tesco launched same-day in London and the South East three years ago, UK wide same-day will cover the Shetland Islands in Scotland to Cornwall, roll-out to be completed by the end of next month.
Peter Millington, standards development team at BIS DFE IOA, reported this week that the standard for the Express Manager has been published on the government web site. This is a milestone step for the next-generation managers in Express, final mile.
The new levy funding will pay the bill for candidates, (circa £25k). No University fees and the candidate will be working, paid in a job in express while learning both on the job, on the net and in the classrooms of supporting Universities.
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