,bbey Hill and NBC on TNT's shopping list?
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trong rumours that it is rested in buying parts of National Bus Company n it is privatised have her been confirmed nor ed by TNT UK general Lager Alan Jones. At the same time, Jones confirmed that TNT is in "active discussions" to buy Somerset-based car transporter company Abbey Hill.
These developments follow hard on the tail of TNT's recent seizure of the contract from British Rail to deliver News International's newspapers, The Sun, The Times, Sunday Times and News of the World, its expansion into contract hire and hanging garment transport.
It is likely that TNT would be most interested in the most profitable of the NBC subsidiaries that have to be privatised by 1989 as part of the Government's attempts to increase competition in the passenger transport market.
TNT already owns the bus company Ansett Pioneer in its native Australia. It also uses