"Through-rate" Links' With Europe
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increasing importance of market
T 11-11 distribution facilities in Britain and the contribution that " through-rate " links with Europe will make to Continental trade will radically. change management concepts in the " smalls " transport field during the next decade.
This was the main theme of the 1960 management conference of A. Packham arid Co., Ltd.—London and southern storage and distribution services—held at the Deer Park Hotel, Honiton, last week-end.
Eighteen managers and executives from the company's London head office and main depots at Bristol, CuIlompton and Falmouth, heard Mr. A. Packham, managing director, make this point in his opening address.
Manufacturers' marketing problems in
the field of physical distribution, Mr. Packham said, were becoming so intense that there was little doubt that the next 10 years would bring many changes to the present pattern in which the majority of goods in the distributive pipelines—at least 80 per cent.--were handled by company-operated vehicles. There was. already a definite trend for even the largest marketing companies to use the independent distribution contractor and thus to free themselves from management complexities.
A. Packham and Co., Ltd., will make provision for " through-rate " facilities throughout their service area in southern England, receiving and forwarding goods for European delivery and receiving and delivering inwards goods from Continental countries.