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Thursday, 07 May 2015

BBC News

• Tycoon sells tyre firm for £50mOne of Scotland's most successful entrepreneurs has sold his tyre-fitting business for £50m to Michelin.
• Tesla loss narrows as orders riseElectric car maker Tesla reports better-than-expected first quarter results, sending shares up more than 5% in trading after US markets had closed.

The Mirror

• Foreign lorries crashing on UK motorways up fourteen per cent in three yearsStudy shows Polish, German and Spanish HGVs are the most accident-prone with more than 1,100 accidents last year

Birmingham Post

• Finance Birmingham agrees funding deal for Contact TransportThe investment will allow the company to continue growing, following a 60 per cent increase in turnover to nearly £20 million in the last 12 months

Yorkshire Evening Post

• Roads must be cycling safe for all, says Leeds cycling championRoads needs to be made safer in a bid to transform Leeds into a “safe cycling city”.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Logistics innovation driven by customer habitsLogistics providers are increasingly expected to offer innovative services to link retailers with their customer base.  Speaking to delegates at the 3PL Conference in Birmingham, head of e-commerce at Hermes Eoin Kenneally said his firm is supporting its clients' retail brands with the development of new services, Logistics Manager reports. Trends such as click and collect - where customers collect packages from nearby stores - are expected to continue growing at a strong rate. Related services such as Sunday deliveries have also taken off over the past six months.  Contact centre manager at H...
• DPD marks Chancellor's visit with new £150m jobs pledgeThe Chancellor George Osborne today visited DPD to hear about plans for a new £150m investment which will create over 750 new jobs. On the final day of campaigning ahead of the 2015 general election the Chancellor called in on DPD's state-of-the-art depot in Raunds, Northamptonshire as part of a 24 hour tour of businesses across the country. The Chancellor set out the Conservatives' plans to carry on backing businesses and help them to create 140,000 new jobs across the East Midlands. In turn, DPD announced that, as a result of its £250 million investment in its UK business over...
• Innovation takes centre stage at record breaking Multimodal showA 100% recyclable pallet, which slashed one customer’s C02e by 9,000 tonnes, bringing commercial savings of around £5 million over a year, was just one of the innovations showcased at last week’s Multimodal show.     The Alternative Pallet Company demonstrated its lightweight pallet, known as the Pallite and made from paper and glue, by lifting a one tonne load as part of the Multimodal Seminars, which included insight from 64 industry thought leaders over three days of workshops.      Multimodal 2015 was a record breaker for the eight-year-old show, ...