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Speedy Response from Bermondsey Depot Helps Secure Multi-Million-Pound Deal for Children’s Charity
Staff at APC Overnight’s Transexpress have been praised after their quick responses helped a national children’s charity secure a multi-million-pound partnership deal with a major bank.  Fundraisers at Hope and Homes for Children, which aims to move the eight million… Read more
Merseyside Business Sets Sights on Delivering Record Turnover
Staff at a Knowsley delivery firm are celebrating, after doubling turnover in just four years.  Swift Despatch, which was founded in 1984 as a one man motorcycle delivery business by owner, Vincent Friery, and is now part of the APC… Read more
Staff Get in the Festive Spirit for Charity
Staff at APC got in the festive spirit by holding a Christmas jumper day in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.  Office and warehouse staff at our Kingswood Lakeside sortation centre donated a total of £300 to the charity as they… Read more
Awards Recognition for APC Drivers
Congratulations to Clifford North from YDL and Mick Pursall from EDS Couriers, who each won prestigious awards at this year’s National Courier Awards.  Held at the Institute of Directors, the awards recognise best practice within the courier industry.  Clifford, who… Read more
New Site on ‘Trax’ to Deliver Success
Trax Express, part of the UK’s largest independent parcel network APC Overnight, has relocated to Holford, Birmingham, in a move which more than doubles the business’s site.  The relocation is the result of sustained growth, which has seen the company… Read more
Two New Senior Appointments
Andy Taylor, who was previously Managing Director of Inpost, has taken up the position of Network Director and will also join the company’s board of directors, while Colin Rann, formerly of FedEx, has taken over as Operations Director.  Both directors… Read more
Fifth Generation of Family Business Toasts 150 Years of Successful Deliveries
Staff at one of London’s oldest delivery businesses are celebrating the company’s 150th anniversary, toasting to continued success under five generations of family ownership.  G Thompson began in 1865 when George Thompson, a station master at St Pancras, identified a… Read more
Local Courier’s Rapid Growth Dispatches Business to New Premises
Rapid Dispatch, which provides nationwide delivery and collection services for people and businesses across Essex and Suffolk made the move from its previous Essex depot in Witham, to a new 10,000 sq ft facility on Applewood Farm in Rivenhall after… Read more
Local Delivery Firm Paw-ses for Thought to Support Local Animals
Since em‘barking’ on the partnership in March 2013, Nexday Overnite Ltd, part of the UK’s largest independent parcel network, APC Overnight, has completed over 70 collections and deliveries, the majority of which have contained at least 30 blankets resulting from… Read more
APC Overnight Appoints Its First External Chief Executive
As Managing Director of DHL Domestic (UK), Jonathan led the separation of the business from its global parent, as well as its integration with the Home Delivery Network. He was subsequently appointed as the new company’s CEO, a position he… Read more
APC Overnight strengthens board with new appointments
Paul Griffiths joins APC Overnight’s board of directors with 25 years’ experience of the logistics industry, having overseen the success of Harrogate-based Able Couriers since 1989. Paul’s latest tenure marks the start of his second spell on the APC Overnight… Read more
APC Overnight invests ahead of peak period
The investment has already seen APC Overnight acquire a 2.5 acre plot of land adjacent to its main sortation centre, which will increase the firm’s overnight vehicle capacity, to accommodate up to 92 trunk vehicles at any one time. Read more