TNT Express win contract for RS Components
Added: 06/09/2010 Reporter: Peter James
TNT Express announced today that they have won a contract to supply next-day delivery services to RS Components, part of Electrocomponents PLC, the world's largest distributor or electronics and eletronic maintence products.
The 2-year contract award for services in France and Italy involves the next-day delivery of a wide variety of electronic, electric and mechanical components to RS Components’ customers. RS Component's market is primarily Business to Business (B2B) with most of its customers consisting of research and development or maintenance engineers. The deliveries, although primarily within France and Italy, will also include several shipments from the UK.
Joris Oudenhuijzen, Global Industry Director Electronics, TNT Express said, "We are proud to help RS deliver their products quickly and efficiently. Online sales represent close to one-half of their revenues. This calls for very flexible and fast transport services. TNT put forward its domestic capabilities in France and Italy and strong air connectivity with the UK."
Commenting for RS, Philip Ferry, Global Freight Manager, added: "TNT shares our philosophy for high quality service delivery to our customers and this new contract builds on an already strong and positive relationship we have with TNT."
This contract award is an extention to the relationship between TNT Express and RS Components. TNT Express and RS Components already works together in the UK, Singapore, Thailand, and Germany. Globally, RS Components distributes 500,000 products from over 2,500 suppliers, with an annual turnover of over £972 million.
