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Hermes Parcelnet Interlink Express
Address: Capitol House, One Capitol Close, Morley, Address: Roebuck Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands B66 1BY
Leeds LS27 0WH Tel: 0121 500 2500
Tel: 0844 5437088 Website: www.interlinkexpress.com
Website: www.hermes-europe.co.uk
Contact: Nancy Reid, PR manager, nancy.reid@geopostuk.com
Contact: Jonathan Bennett, jonathan.bennett@hermes-europe.co.uk
Year founded: 1979
Year founded: 1972
Parent company: La Poste
Parent company: Otto UK
Speciality: parcel carrier to residential and business addresses
Speciality: parcel carrier to residential and business addresses
Number of staff: not applicable, as it is a franchise network
Number of staff: 1,400
Number of depots and locations: 101 depots and a central
Number of depots and locations: 20 depots and two hubs
sortation hub in the Midlands, with central services support
Turnover: £210 million
located on the same site
Average daily volume: 300,000 parcels
Turnover: N/A
Peak daily volume: more than 500,000 parcels
Average daily volume: N/A
Maximum weight of packages accepted: 15kg
Peak daily volume: N/A
Company profi le: Hermes handles more than 100 million
Maximum weight of packages accepted: 31.5kg
collections and deliveries each year. It operates a network of
Company profi le: The largest franchise network in the UK, Interlink
more than 7,500 “lifestyle couriers” that provides fl exible, fully
Express has a sortation hub in the Midlands that uses the latest
tracked doorstep delivery, combined with a friendly and local
cube-weigh technology for invoicing accuracy.
approach.
Nightfreight (GB)
Home Delivery Network
Address: Crestwood House, Birches Rise, Willenhall, West
Midlands WV13 2DB
Address: Whiston Enterprise Park, Fallows Way, Whiston,
Tel: 01902 604000
Merseyside L35 1RZ
Website: www.nightfreight.co.uk
Tel: 0151 290 8500; 0844 556 7000 (sales)
Contact: Peter Louden, peter.louden@nightfreight.co.uk
Website: www.hdnl.co.uk
Year founded: 1984
Contact: Deborah Smith, deborah.smith@hdnl.co.uk
Speciality: parcel carrier to residential and business addresses
Year founded: 2005
Number of staff: 2,200
Parent company: March UK
Number of depots and locations: 55 sites nationwide
Speciality: parcel carrier to residential addresses
Turnover: £140 million
Number of staff: 6,000 (2,500 drivers)
Average daily volume: 25,000 consignments
Number of depots and locations: 50 depots, three sort centres,
Peak daily volume: 35,000 consignments
fi ve transport sites
Maximum weight of packages accepted: 750kg per delivery
Turnover: £333 million
Company profi le: Nightfreight deliveries range from small parcels
Average daily volume: approximately 350,000 one-man shipments
to nonconveyable items. Its Deliver2home service is a leading two-
and 5,000 two-man deliveries
man network.
Peak daily volume: 600,000 one-man shipments and 6,000 two-

man deliveries
Onepost
Maximum weight of packages accepted: one-man, up to 32kg; two-
Address: 1 Gordano Court, Serbert Way, Portishead BS20 7FS
man, 32.5kg-130kg
Tel: 0800 138 3551
Company profi le: Home Delivery Network operates 50 parcel Website: www.onepost.co.uk
depots throughout the UK, including four specialised operations Contact: info@onepost.co.uk
sites distributing heavy and large items and two national sort Year founded: 2005
centres. It delivers to 1.76 million UK postcodes in 120 postal Speciality: postal and parcel carrier to residential and business
regions. addresses
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