TNT expands into supplying shops
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EXCLUSIVE IN TNT is using its experience in parcels delivery to launch a chilled distribution service for independent retailers and garage forecourt shops.
A trial operation will start on 16 October using two shareduser depots, in Oldham and Milton Keynes, and a fleet of 30 new vehicles, mostly 35-tonne box vans.
Andrew Fitzmorris, TNT's director of business development, says: "Retailers will phone in their orders in the afternoon, we'll collect direct from the manufacturers and, like the parcels operation, will deliver the next morning on a shop-by-shop basis." New drivers will be required for the trial, with more jobs ere. ated when the scheme goes national next year. The start-ur investment was around £27m. I— Dutch postal service PT'! Post Nederland, which recentb took over the company to create the fourth-largest express mrri er in the world, is to rename it whole operation TNT.