Depot awards announced!
Shears Bros (Transport) Ltd
STD Developments Ltd
Congratulations to Shears Bros (Transport) Ltd (D56) of Christchurch, who were voted into first place for the coveted Depot of the Year award! They were closely followed by Cartwright Brothers (D80) in second place, and STD Developments Ltd (D57) in third place. As usual, the accolades are accompanied by champagne, certificates and a shield for the winner. STD Developments were awarded first place for Outstanding Contribution to the Network, again Cartwright Brothers came in a close second, and you voted Linkline Express (D29) into third place. As both of the awards are voted for by the Pall-Ex membership as a whole, all of the depots mentioned above can be confident that they are held in very high regard by their peers. Finally, awarded by the hub staff as Most Improved Depot of the year, was Worldwide Pallet Logistics, congratulations! The awards were announced at Pall-Ex Anniversary Dinner Dance in London, the event raised in excess of ÂŁ10,000 for The Stroke Association. Thank you to all who kindly donated auction items, and to those who bid on them.
Next Fastlane: Spring 2011 News & feedback contact: Holly Cave - Marketing Manager E: hcave@pallex.co.uk T: 01530 239065
Hilary Devey Message from Founder and CEO, Hilary Devey What a night! A big thank you to all the members and staff who made our anniversary dinner dance such a massive success. A special thank you for those who donated to our auction and to those who purchased on the night. The proceeds are going to a charity very close to my heart, The Stroke Association. We will be launching a special series of events and competitions in support of this charity for 2011 and I know you will all give it your support.
It was so nice to meet up with friends, old and new on Saturday evening and I am so proud of our network and our members. A fantastic well done to all of you, but special mention for our Sales Depot of the Year, D02, PMB and a massive well done to our Depot of the Year, Shears brothers, D56. It’s a great honour to win this title, as its voted for by the members in recognition of their service to the network. Well done Ian and Pete and keep up your good work. Patrick Kielty deserves a special thank you for his performance on the evening, as he certainly got everyone in the party mood with his quick wit and risqué comments. I thought the whole night was a massive success and the Plaza was a superb venue. It was also nice to have so many of our European partners with us to enjoy the event. Our Pall-Ex family is growing all the time and I have no doubt that our European strategy will make us stronger and deliver more and more opportunities to develop more sales and more delivery routes. We have enjoyed great growth in 2010 and I am certain that 2011 will see us all make further progress. It is important that we don’t rest on our laurels, as the economic climate for 2011 will still be challenging, just like the current cold snap we are enduring now. Make sure you all put Monday 4th April in your diaries for next year, as we are planning a Pall-Ex conference for this date.
I would like to wish you all a very merry C hristmas and a happy and prosperous new year.
The Princess Royal and Hilary Devey raise more than £40,000 for the Princess Royal Trust for Carers A fundraising dinner hosted by Hilary Devey, with The Princess Royal as the guest of honour raised £40,000 for the Princess Royal’s very own charity, the Princess Royal Trust for Carers. The 62 guests invited to Rangemore Hall in Derbyshire on the evening of Tuesday 12 October raised the money through a combination of attendance fee, table collection and an auction, with Hilary donating the main prize herself; a week in her villa in Marrakech, an auction lot that eventually raised £3,500.
Hilary said: “It was an honour and a privilege to have the Princess Royal at the dinner and her presence ensured an enormous level of excitement throughout the evening. Her work for the Princess Royal Trust for Carers is legendary and she is an inspiration to all of us to keep raising money for those who cannot do it themselves. They are the real inspirations through their determination and selflessness.”
Dipping their hands into their pockets on the night were, among others, John Caudwell, the founder of Phones4U who sold the business in 2006 for £1.4 billion, Nikki King OBE, the Managing Director of Isuzu Trucks and first female managing director of a truck manufacturer and Jatin Patel, a Kent-based Couture Designer. Pall-Ex also announced that it had raised £14,000 from its Penny-a-Pallet scheme.
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Member News
Winter Newsletter 2010
Movember challenge...! The guys at Stalkers (D39) have all taken up the challenge to grow a moustache for one month, all in aid of Prostate Cancer. Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, start Movember 1st clean shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. The moustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, the men of Movember commit to growing a moustache for 30 days. Well done guys!
Destination TEN Winners! A huge well done to Chris Adey at D02 whose hard work enabled PMB Pallet Express to be the first winners of a Pall-Ex sales campaign; Destination TEN and £10,000 worth of holiday vouchers. Chris said on the night, he couldn’t have achieved this without the support of the team of PMB. D32, CDK Pallet Distribution, followed in second place, with Worlwide Pallet Logistics (D62) in third place.
Award winning Bullet Express Following Bullets (D105) new livery launch in August this year, they have been announced as the winner of Scottish Motor Transports Livery of the Year award. Bullet are delighted with the Award which is their third award in six years. The new livery is very clean and currently, they are celebrating 20 years in business. MD David McCutcheon says “Another award in Scotland is great for the company, especially in a celebratory year. We worked very hard with our design team to get it right and have in fact had many comments from fellow hauliers on the smartness of the new livery.”
PPL goes paintballing for charity In aid of Marie Curie Cancer Research, the team at PPL (D91) took part in a Paintballing Halloween Massacre at Delta Force Paintballing Arena in Kings Langley. The team raised £600 for the charity. The team thoroughly enjoyed the day with the added bonus of winning first place on the day. Well done!
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Mini Clipper Logistics seals links with green business award winner, powerPerfector London based Voltage Power Optimisation technology company powerPerfector has chosen Mini Clipper (D77) as its logistics provider for distributing powerPerfector units around the UK. The voltage optimizers are received, stored and modified at Mini Clipper’s Distribution Centre by trained technical operators who prepare the units ready for dispatch and installation. Mini Clipper’s 2 man driver/installation teams carry out multi-site roll outs to Blue Chip companies’ branches to enable them to attain their environmental goals. Mini Clipper Managing Director, Peter Masters has also taken the decision to install a powerPerfector unit into one of their own warehouse sites in order to cut power bills, having calculated that the unit will pay back on energy savings within 34 months. This and other energy saving initiatives will help Mini Clipper achieve ISO14001 in 2011. The liveried 7.5 tonne Daf 45160 has internal loadlock bars, tuck under 1.5 tonne tail lift, and was designed with extra internal height modifications to carry computer server racks for Mini Clipper’s specialist transport division.
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Member News
Winter Newsletter 2010
We liked it so much we bought the company... Two years ago, Panic purchased a 15,000 square foot loading canopy allowing goods from 16 ft tall double decked trailers to be unloaded and transferred to the warehouse in any weather. No more wet freight, no more returns, no more forklifts and drivers operating in the rain, the snow or the hail. The yard area under the canopy remains dry meaning no hazardous ice in the depths of winter. Kevin Johnson Managing Director of Panic Transport (D24) says: “The canopy has been
a godsend and being able to guarantee dry freight has been a major boost to our business as well as having a very positive effect on staff working conditions and safety. The structure can easily be relocated to a new site should I choose to move premises” Kevin was so impressed with the quality of the structure and the speed and efficiency of installation that, when the opportunity arose to take a controlling interest in the business, he grasped it.
For a no obligation quote and discounted rates for Pall-Ex members call: Useful Structures on 01788 861246 or contact tc@useful-structures.com Please see back cover for more information.
Brian Butler – The unsung hero Brian Butler, Forklift driver at Premier Palletise Limited (D91) has been awarded the Commercial Motor, Haulage Heroes accolade. Haulage Heroes provides the opportunity for employers to help recognise and reward their most committed member of staff, that person who regularly goes above and beyond the call of duty.
Ace Express Freight reduces IT administration time by 85% with desktop virtualisation Ace Express Freight (D6 & D16) has announced their completion of a desktop virtualisation project.
Deborah Jenkins, Managing Director nominated Brian as he always goes the extra mile by being kind and helpful with drivers, who would perhaps be more than happy if he did their work for them as well! Well Done Brian!
Mini Clipper secures significant contract with global cable supplier, Nexans Mini Clipper Logistics, D77 has successfully tendered for the cable distribution contract with Nexans, the global cable management company. The 3 year contract comprises of a mixture of palletised freight and drums on the roll, some of which are delivered via hiab vehicles, with drums weighing up to 6 tonnes. Sales Director, Jayne Masters was delighted to sign the 3 year contract with this local company. “Our two companies found a number of synergies and instantly knew we would work well together. With over 1000 pallets to deliver all over the UK per month, and daily hiab loads starting in the New Year, Nexans will become a significant client for us. Their business is core, particularly as we handle hiab loads for a number of other customers with specialist delivery needs. This is fantastic news for Mini Clipper as we forge into our 40th year of trading in 2011”.
The project, which involves storing the desktop environment on a central server rather than on a physical device itself, slashes IT administration time by 85%, saves energy costs, reduces carbon footprint and mitigates IT risk. This has completely transformed Ace Express’s IT administration function with the bulk of resources now spent on strategically-important project work, which drives competitive advantage and improves business performance. Directors Ken Bailey, Jayne Masters, Peter Masters, Dave Lightfoot, Anna Hickmott
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TOTAL environmentally responsible SOLUTION Pall-Ex ECO DRIVE enables you and your customers to take a hold of your environmental obligations. The concept is simple. In addition to delivering and collecting palletised goods, the Pall-Ex network will begin to collect cardboard and plastic packaging material from customers utilising the inbound delivery vehicle for goods as the collection vehicle for waste. We have found that there is a market for small, frequent and non-time critical collections for simple waste (e.g. Cardboard and LDPE Plastic). The principal profile of this type of customer is generally a Retail type customer who often struggles for back-of-house space and seeks regular removal of waste. Since the trial of ECO DRIVE we’ve identified a two tier system which will provide a sustainable and incentivised solution that the whole Pall-Ex network can benefit from. THIS is the key to our combined success:
Benefits
Who is this tier for?
TIER 1 This tier has been designed for depots with large and growing volumes of cardboard and plastic waste. It also caters for depots who are able to consistently generate high volume and turnaround 20 tonnes of material within a 4 week period (approximately 20+ pallets a week).
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Create additional revenue streams through means of diversification Improve customer retention and win new customers through being able to offer differentiated ‘Customer-driven’ service Get a lead into other potential waste streams each with revenue potential Get some good press
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By operating ECO DRIVE Tier 1, you‘ll benefit from two split revenue streams:
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Firstly you will benefit from the local sales of the service to new and existing customers. Secondly, you’ll receive revenue from the baling and resale of bales on the commodity market.
TIER 2 This tier is intended for depots with cardboard and plastic waste in small quantities to dispose of. This volume may be waste produced at your own depot or volume obtained from your customers through offering a waste collection service.
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Able to leverage existing trunks between your depot and the hub to minimise transportation costs Grow at your own pace but with the incentive of becoming a Tier 1 operator Deliver a ‘differentiated service’ to your customers, many of whom are already looking for ways to reduce paying Landfill Taxes
Tier 2 intends to engage depots who want to provide a waste collection service to their customers, however, do not currently have ‘large’ volumes to warrant taking the cost of a baler on site. This tier exists to help depots grow this service without adding costs for doing so; in fact, it may even allow you to remove certain costs which you currently have e.g. skip costs etc. Tier 2 allows you to find your own ‘place’ within ecodrive, giving you the ability to drive it in line with your customer’s demands and own commercial expectations. Tier 2 operators will receive from the sale of the service to new and existing customers, as you begin to achieve the appropriate volume (e.g. circa 20 pallets per week), you will be invited to become a Tier 1 operator and reap the benefits including selling the material via our approved partner – the greenhouse.
Next Fastlane: Spring 2011 News & feedback contact: Holly Cave - Marketing Manager E: hcave@pallex.co.uk T: 01530 239065
Dinner Dance
Winter Newsletter 2010
Pall-Ex Annual Dinner Dance - 27th November 2010 Our MC for this year’s dinner dance, Patrick Kielty
Pall-Ex was announced as a regional finalist for the HSBC Business Thinking Awards
PMB Pallet Express Ltd were awarded Sales Depot of the Year
Maggie Larimore from D02 , Chair of Pall-Ex MRC presents Depot of the Year
Worldwide Pallet Logistics (D62) were awarded Most Improved Depot
Take That & Party!
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IT Update
We are now in the final countdown for the launch of TWINE. All Members have received their introduction to the system at the extensive training sessions held throughout October and we continue to provide advice to depots who want to maximise the potential and benefits TWINE will deliver to their businesses. In the last issue of Fastlane I outlined how, due to the design of TWINE, you can expand the functionality of TWINE to encompass your whole business using Microsoft Dynamics NAV (www.microsoft.com/uk/dynamics). Well, working with our partners Cooper Parry we have now, for a very limited time only managed to secure a fantastic discount on your first three NAV licences. Traditionally these will cost you £1000+ each BUT, up until December 23, 2010 you can secure your first three licences for just £1…yes, that’s just £1! If you want to take advantage of this offer then please email me as quickly as possible to secure your licences.
……DON’T FORGET! Members using Navman Wireless or those contemplating investing in Navman Wireless in the New Year can benefit from great Member discounts and will automatically be linked so that you can track your vehicles using TWINE. We are still providing one to one ‘deployment’ sessions at the Hub for Members to further familiarise themselves with TWINE and understand how to maximise the return from the system in our dedicated training suite . To book your session or find out more about the Navman deal please contact the Pall-Ex IT team. As always, your feedback and suggestions are very welcome so please feel free to contact me at the hub.
Sean
Ssherwin-smith@pallex.co.uk
Those of you that attended the training will know that we have set out an aggressive phase two development plan for TWINE over the coming months. This additional functionality facilitates even greater efficiencies for our Members and lifts the TMS (Transport Management System) capabilities into the same realms as third party systems that some depots currently employ alongside Pall-IT. I am therefore, pleased to report that due to a fantastic effort from the IT team, that a lot of this forecasted functionality will now be available in the first week of January which is ahead of the proposed schedule and means we will be able to commence work early on another very exciting ‘Top Secret’ project that by linking with TWINE will generate potential new revenues and savings for our Members … Watch this space!
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Member News
Winter Newsletter 2010
Annual Charity Ball hosted by Bullet Express David and Gary from Bullet Express (D105) held their 5th Annual Tartan Ball for the St Andrews Trust on Saturday 20th November. The Trust was set up after a well publicised campaign to end World poverty with the emphasis being on child poverty and it has built a school in Chypsie village Malawi with the focus being on education. Gary has recently visited the school, 3 weeks ago to see the teacher’s accommodation building, which is now completed. The funds for a feeding station have now been started this will be the focus for the 2011 campaign. This will enable each child to receive a breakfast each day before they attend school. Over 300 people attended the Ball and raised over £20,000 on the night.
Mainland Group Ltd win £2.25m Stanley Black & Decker distribution contract Northampton based Mainland Group Ltd (D106) have been chosen as the preferred supplier for all of Stanley Black & Decker UK pallet and freight distribution. A tender process was opened to multiple distribution companies including DHL and Palletways. The tool giants, Stanley and Black and Decker recently merged in March 2010, and are now known as Stanley Black & Decker. Mainland Group take over all existing work from 1st January 2011 and the eight DHL staff employed on the contract from the existing Brackmills sites will transfer to Mainland Group. The operation will be consolidated from three UK sites to Northampton along with the existing daily inbound movements from Belgium. Commenting on the contract win Managing Director Mike Bacon said, “This is a significant win for the business and is in line with our expansion plans. We very much look forward to continuing our excellent relationship with the client and delivering them cost savings and operational benefits.”
Changes at Premier Logistics Another busy quarter for Premier Logistics (D42) which saw them gaining sole UK distribution rights for stationery company Pukka Pads. To show their commitment to the customer, they liveried one of their 26 ton vehicles with the Pukka Pads graphics. November saw another important business gain with Bonnington Plastics coming on board. This contract is worth in the region of one million pounds to Premier Logistics which allows them to further strengthen their position in Leicestershire. Former driver, Pete Deacon, has been a welcome addition to the Pall-Ex desk in order to assist supervisor, Jamie Baptie. Premier Logistics are also extremely pleased to have recruited industry legend, Richard Brown, who has been appointed to the role of Transport Manager. He brings with him, decades of experience within logistics.
Sameday and Groupage Planner, Ali Sykes is looking forward to a challenging new job role which involves overall responsibility of health and safety as well as ensuring that Premier receives ISO status within the next year. Ali has spent a number of years developing and gaining key accounts in the same day and groupage market for Premier and now wants to put his individual stamp on the next critical role. The next few months will see a further 4 artics added to the ever growing fleet to enable Premier Logistics to capture a larger market share.
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Member News
New for 2011 Pronto Sameday Couriers Pall-Ex are delighted to announce the launch of Pronto. This will be a totally separate business, that will enjoy the support of The Pall-Ex Group of Companies. Trials are due to start in January in the North East, East Midlands and London. Any members wanting further information should contact Debra Hart on 0750 033 0257.
Welcome to the team! Lynne Thomasson - Business Development Director
Lynne Thomasson Business Development Director
Lynne has joined Pall-Ex as Business Development Director and prior to joining Pall-Ex, Lynne spent 17 years at UK Mail her latest role as the Corporate Sales Director. Additionally, Lynne spent some time with the British Forces. Notably, Lynne is a qualified LGV Driver and she also has a CPC certificate in national and international freight. At Pall-Ex, Lynne will be focusing on corporate accounts, driving and developing market share, implementing sales strategies and identifying new markets for growth. On a personal note, Lynne is married with 2 children. She enjoys walking, fundraising for the local football team and respite care for children in need.
Jaimini Shah - Marketing Assistant
Jaimini has joined Pall-Ex Marketing Department as Marketing Assistant. Jaimini previously worked for British Waterways as marketing and communications officer. Jaimini will be assisting Holly on all aspects of Marketing within Pall-Ex. Jaimini Shah - Marketing Assistant
Diego Gomez - Graduate Trainee
Diego has joined Pall-Ex Projects Department as Graduate Trainee. Diego graduated BSc Hons in Production Management, then studied for a Masters in Business Administration in New York. At Pall-Ex, Diego will be concentrating on the Iberian project and ensuring positive communication between the UK and Central Hub in Madrid. In his spare time, Diego enjoys tennis, mountain biking, skiing and windsurfing and is a keen motorbike road racer. Diego Gomez - Graduate Trainee
Nicoletta Andri - Graduate Trainee
Nicoletta has joined Pall-Ex Projects Department as Graduate Trainee. Nicoletta has completed a Masters in Maths and spent one year working as a Maths teacher in Switzerland. Nicoletta’s main focus at Pall-Ex is the German expansion project. In her spare time, she enjoys badminton, football, skiing/snowboarding, climbing, diving and playing the piano.
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Nicoletta Andri - Graduate Trainee
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Member News
Winter Newsletter 2010
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Hilary is Personality of the Year at IFW Awards Hilary Devey was honoured with a prestigious award at one of the industry’s biggest events for her contribution to the transport and logistics sector. Hilary was presented with the inaugural Freight Personality of the Year Award at the IFW Awards at the Hilton Park Lane. The awards attracted the highest number of entries in recent memory – with 14 businesses and two individuals scooping accolades from a diverse range of categories. Hilary said: “It was an absolute honour to be presented with the first ever Freight Personality of the Year Award at the IFW awards ceremony. “To be recognised among industry peers is not only overwhelming in a personal sense after what has been a long journey for Pall-Ex, but also for the company I feel it is fitting testament to the hard work and ambition of the team who have helped keep Pall-Ex in the forefront of the industry.”
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