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I. TNT UK's rapidlyexpanding news distribution arm, TNT Newsfast, has won another major delivery contract, for the Radio Times — Britain's highest circulation weekly magazine.
The initial one-year contract, which starts in November, is part of a longterm move by BBC Enterprise Journals Division, says TNT Newsfast general manager Tom Bell, and follows Newsfast's recent contract successes with E/VIAP, Elle and Sky magazines. Until now Radio Times' distribution has been handled by seven independent hauliers.
The Radio Times has a weekly circulation of over three million, rising to over ten million copies at Christmas. TNT Newsfast vehicles will collect from four print centres for immediate delivery to 315 wholesalers nationwide. The weekly consignments will total 450 tonnes, picked up progressively on Thursday,
Friday and Monday of each week.
TNT Newsfast will be spending around 2300,000 on 25 extra curtain-sided semitrailers to handle the new work, but Bell says the company will also use existing TNT Newsfast artics that have finished working on earlier newspaper delivery contracts and would otherwise stand idle during the day.
LI TNT has also won the contract to distribute News International's Sunday colour supplements for the News of the World and the Sunday TNT Newsfast will be buying another 25 curtain-sided trailers to handle the latest Radio Times business.
Times. The contract involves the delivery of 850 tonnes of magazines a week, direct to 6,000 retail outlets in London, and 900 wholesalers
nationwide.
Eight Cartwright semitrailers, worth 85,000, are being built to service the contract, which will run for three-and-a-half years in parallel with TNT's existing News International Contract.