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• Textiles distributor Harvest Processing — which rescued the Harvest Group from receivership last year while trading under the name Flowtown — is changing the name of its transport arm and is moving out of its Tottenham head office.
It will be renamed Harvest International Transport Services and will move to larger premises at Enfield, North London. The garment packaging and storage division will continue to trade as Harvest Processing.
Until the Harvest Group went into receivership all of its UK distribution was in-house. It now uses eight subcontractors, in eluding Manchester-based JAB, Mackvan of London and Contraflow of Nottingham and Glasgow. About 80% of its loads are exports. For European distribution it delivers to 14 "partner" companies which between them have more than 110 depots and 1,500 vehicles, says director Alan Green.
The Harvest Group was set up eight years ago by Gary Rees, winner of a national newspaper's entrepreneur of the year award.
Harvest's international operation was launched four years ago and was bought while in receivership by businessmen Harry Bloch and Brian Wides.