APC Overnight experiences continued growth.
APC Overnight is expanding with significant increases in warehousing and operational facilities focused on the Midlands and Southern Counties of England. The UK’s largest next day parcel network reports that several members have strengthened their operations and services because of increasing business.
APC EDS Couriers in Cannock is now occupying a new site five times the size of its previous depot and warehouse. Andy Evans, EDS Courier MD expects this upward trend to continue and says: “As we come out of recession, more businesses are sending more parcels at the same time as holding less stock themselves – and of course they still require reliable delivery to their customers the next day.”
APC Acclaim Parcel Express is servicing Portsmouth from a new local depot, adding to its existing businesses in Southampton and the Isle of Wight. The expansion was partly prompted by rising demand for stock control and distribution services, in which the company has significant expertise – especially with imports from the Far East.
APC Streetwise moved its Warwick operation to a new 10,000 sq ft site with a half acre loading bay, to accommodate expanding demand including daily fresh food deliveries to household name restaurateurs such as Heston Blumenthal and Raymond Blanc. The company also has facilities in Croydon, Leatherhead and New Malden, and Martin Russell, MD, says: “Overnight delivery is definitely where the growth is.”
APC Scarlet Couriers has added a new 20,000 sq ft depot to its chain of facilities serving the Thames Valley and Chilterns. The Wycombe depot allows it to consolidate warehousing and distribution under one roof, and connects with existing locations as Martin Cavendish, Operations Director, explains: “Our Wycombe depot joins up our existing customer zones to provide APC services all the way from west of Reading via Slough and Uxbridge through to London’s Shepherds Bush.”
Other depots that have moved to new bigger sites include APC Roadlink, Bournemouth, APC TWC Parcel Collection Services in Shrewsbury and APC Eezehaul in Crawley.
Maintaining Industry leading service levels clearly brings its rewards, Whatever the economic Climate.
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A TRULY GLOBAL INDUSTRY The numbers are mind boggling, In addition to the major ‘global’ carriers a multitude of other networks move millions of packages each day. A huge level of resource is required to do this, state of the art technology, and seamless logistics. World leading brands exist within this industry – UPS – FEDEX – DHL – TNT…..all household names. As a small local company and networking within the APC group Euro-Tran Despatch is up against such powerhouses of the industry. All is not well within our industry, The constant endeavour of the globals to achieve ‘market share’ has led to major consolodation within the industry, and some excellent brands have, as such disappeared, swallowed up, in some cases by lesser companies. City Link are ‘reportedly’ just emerging from difficult times some time after their takeover of Target Express. Experiencing massive losses, and shedding enormous resource and staff along the way. DHL having pulled out of the US Overnight parcels market, Then go on to ‘allegedly’ pay HDN in excess of £200m to take its UK overnight business off its hands, This in order to enable DHL to ‘focus’ on its core international and priority business. Clearly all is not well.