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SEVERAL OVERNIGHT delivery services will start life at the Distribution Services Show at Wembley next week, ensuring more intense competition between express delivery companies, reports TIM COBB.
The main launch will be of the Independent Express Corporation, a company born out of the ashes of Ipec. The company will be run by four ex-Ipec employees who took the opportunity of starting their own company when Ipec sold out to parcels distribution company TNT.
Independent Express is headed by John Konstas as managing director (ex-managing director of lpec Europe until 1981 when he left the industry for a short period); operations director Michael Egan (ex-man aging director of Ipec UK); director of sales Jim Wares (ex-Ipec national sales and marketing manager); and marketing director Bob Wales (ex-general manager with Ipec). Backing up the management team are 25 more ex-Ipec employees. This number is expected to rise as the company comes closer to its official launching date of October 10.
The company is based at Northampton as was the Ipec UK operation. It will work on the tried and tested central hub basis which it will be building in Leicester or, if Government backing is provided as an incentive to provide work in a depressed area, Corby. The service provided by the company will be an oifernight guaranteed next-day delivery to 95 per cent of Britain, with the company predicting that 90 per cent of its deliveries will be made in the morning, at no extra charge.
There will be no size or weight constraints, and all deliveries will be carried by its fleet of lorries and smaller distribution vehicles in a pink livery.
Road was chosen in preference to rail as the company will then have total control of its vehicle movements,