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MD will run Boots logistics for 140m
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• Retail giant Boots has ended months of uncertainty for hundreds of drivers across the country by naming Tibbett & Britten as its new transport contractor.
The 1.40m-a-year contract means that 50 drivers employed directly by Boots in Nottingham will be transferred in August along with 80 drivers from the company's existing third-party contractor TN.
They are covered by TUPE regulations which protect their existing pay and conditions.
Beets is retaining its other transport providers Bartrarns, Bibby, Roactferry, Clearway
Distribution and West Transport, but they will be managed by Tibbett & Britten.
Exel's chilled food distribution contract with Boots will also be managed in this way.
Boots estimates it will save Elm a year by 2007 as a resutt of the Tibbett & Britten contract and a new warehousing contract awarded to Unipart.
Although the fate of TOG Myers based at Dartford, Basingstoke and Greenwich is now clear, uncertainty continues for 30 of its drivers in Nottingham and Mossend in Scotland, Steve Ball, senior shop steward at Nottingham, says: "We still don't know where we are going."
Tibbett & Britten says a decision on their future was delayed by the need for confidentiality when negotiating the seven-year contract.