Business Post To Float

by Juliet Parish • Business Post, one of the UK's leading independent parcel and express mail delivery firms, is planning a stock market flotation in early July to fund the......

Tenders Please

• Rugby Cement is inviting tenders for a contract worth up to ,£200,000 a year for the haulage of 60,000 tonnes of fuel. The fuel is currently transported by rail, but British......

Asda Revamps Distribution With New Washington Base

• Supermarket giant Asda has confirmed a reorganisation of distribution in the North-East with the opening of a purposebuilt distribution centre in Tyne and Wear. A number of......

Third Drop

• Commercial vehicle production in April fell by 33.5% compared with the same month last year,to 14,989. This was the third monthly fall in succession. Export production fell by......

Looking Up

• Finance company Barclays Mercantile predicts a steady revival in fixed asset investment over the next three years that will be led by vehicle and machinery acquisition.......

Rank Increase

• Up to 400 drivers and engineers working for Rank Hovis McDougall have been offered a 2% pay increase, according to one of the unions negotiating the deal.......

Exel Backdate

• Exel Logistic' F'ashionflow drivers have accepted a 2.5% increase backdated to 1 January, says independent wage analysts Incomes Data Services.......

Boc Profits

• BOC's vacuum and distribution division, which includes BOC Distribution Services, increased its operating profit from £7m to 412.1m during the six months to March this year.......

Doors Open

• Beck & Pollitzer, a Transport Development Group subsidiary has won a 1:1.5m/five-year distribution contract from Regency Doors in Barnsley, South Yorks. Sister firms Nexus......

Backload Base

• Spalding-based Lockwoods Distribution plans to buy a business in the South-West to provide eastbound backloads for its trucks. It is particularly interested in a Bristol,......