TNT Logistics UK sets up dedicated and multi-user divisions
26 March 2002 - 15:41 CET
TNT Logistics UK, with turnover approaching £500 million after another year of outstanding growth, has moved up into the ranks of the top five logistics companies in the country.
The award-winning company has experienced major success, expanding existing contracts and securing significant new business across a range of market sectors, as well as working with TNT Logistics worldwide to launch multi-country contracts. In 2001, UK revenue grew by more than 30 percent compared with the previous year.
To create a platform for further sustained growth and to make its product offering clearer to the marketplace, TNT Logistics UK is reoganising its businesses into two divisions - dedicated and multi-user - combining the skills and experience of the 6,500 people at TNT Logistics, TNT Network Logistics, TNT Newsfast and Taylor Barnard.
Neil Crossthwaite, Managing Director TNT Logistics UK, says: "The new structure will enable us to better utilise the vast range of expertise and resources available throughout the organisation to provide the optimum, state-of-the-art logistics solution for all our clients - now and in the future.
"It is a tremendous development for our business and a significant step towards achieving our strategic vision of becoming the largest logistics company in the UK. We have never been better placed to deliver such a comprehensive service offering to such a variety of market sectors."
"Logistics is the fastest growing business in TPG and we are ensuring that the UK continues to be recognised as best-in-class, not only within the company, but throughout the industry," explains Mr Crossthwaite.
"As a result of this reorganisation we are better placed to access the wide range of specific skills and expertise within our company to meet individual client requirements. Our ability to tailor solutions exactly to a client's needs enables both the client and us to secure the competitive edge.
"We have already combined our IT resources and the success of this integration in delivering leading-edge solutions, from order processing and inventory management to WMS solutions and in-cab data transmission, has further convinced us that a full reorganisation is the best way forward - for TNT, for our staff and, most importantly, for our customers."
The brand TNT Logistics will be used for the dedicated contracts, which undertake the full range of logistics services for clients in key market sectors such as automotive, retail, tyres, hi-tech, healthcare, utilities, construction and FMCG. Clients include: Land Rover, B&Q, Habitat, Allied Bakeries, and Compaq.
The multi-user contracts will use the brand TNT Network Logistics. The name is traditionally associated with logistics for the print, paper, packaging and book industries but will now also include the Taylor Barnard multi-user contracts, ranging from Golden Wonder and Tesco to Kimberley Clark.
TNT Newsfast, which undertakes the primary distribution of 86 million newspapers a week in the British Isles, will retain its own name under Managing Director David Bermingham.
Mr Crossthwaite says it is an immensely exciting time for the logistics company in the UK. "I am sure that this reorganisation will provide the platform for sustained long-term growth for our business. It will enhance career opportunities for our current employees and help us continue to attract the highest calibre people.
"Working with TNT Logistics throughout Europe and the rest of the world, we are able to offer multi-country logistics solutions to the growing number of companies requiring that service. Our people have been seconded to projects in continental Europe, and as far afield as Australia, China and Brazil, to share expertise and ensure we are fully utilising the outstanding range of resources in TNT Logistics worldwide."
