TNT: 2,700 new jobs
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• TNT is to take on 2,700 workers in the UK during the next 18 months, says managing director Alan Jones. Jobs are being created for drivers, depot and administrative staff.
The staff will join in stages, as TNT expands. Up to 600 will be needed at TNT's Midlands depots at Leicester, Worcester and Cannock. It opens its Atherstone headquarters at the end of the year where several clerical and managerial appointments are expected.
Jones will not say which divisions are likely to absorb most of the new staff. TNT's newspaper distribution arm Newsfast has won contracts with The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, with other divisions securing deals with Ford, Lever, and Haymarket.
Jones and senior staff last week welcomed TNT founder, 75-year-old Ken Thomas to Atherstone on his first visit to the UK in 20 years. Thomas, who left the Australian arm of TNT in the 1970s, founded the company in 1946.
O In the latest blow in the battle of the newspaper distribution giants, Jones has called claims by rival Newsflow that it carries 70% of Britain's newspapers, "rubbish".
He says TNT handles more than half the total bulk of daily and Sunday titles through its contracts with Rupert Murdoch's News International and the two Telegraph papers. Newsflow has claimed that its deals with two Associated Newspapers and two Express Newspaper titles give it 70% of the market. Jones says that titles carried by TNT are either bulky — like The Sunday Times — or mass circulation — like The Sun and the News of the World.
TNT sparked a newspaper distribution revolution when it became the first road carrier to handle national titles, trucking them from News International's union-blocked Wapping plant.