Day: 6 January 2020

TIP Trailer Services says it has completed the acquisition of Trailer Wizards, a leading supplier of trailer rental and leasing services in Canada. This follows last September’s announcement on the signing of the agreement for the acquisition.

Following the acquisition, TIP will integrate Trailer Wizards with its existing Canadian business, Train Trailer Rentals.

path of TIP,” said Bob Fast, President and CEO of TIP Trailer Services. “By joining the teams of Trailer Wizards and Train Trailer Rentals, we can provide the best in flexible commercial trailer fleet solutions and pursue growth opportunities for the combined businesses. We intend to invest to develop our longstanding customer relationships with world-class transport, logistics, and retail customers in Canada.”

TIP’s Canadian division will have a combined fleet of over 33,000 trailers, reefers, chassis and flatbed or drop-deck configurations. The combined business will employ over 500 people, including approximately 300 mechanics, throughout almost 30 locations in Canada from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia.

UK ecommerce fulfilment and logistics provider 3PL says it enjoyed a record-breaking December, building on a year that has seen huge growth and significant investment for the Wigan-based company.

3PL says Black Friday saw it successfully fulfil over 50,000 customer orders and a total of over 250,000 orders across the entire Christmas Period – a 600% increase on 2018.

It says that “continual investment and updates to carrier management systems, warehouse software and a move to 24-hour operations has created the perfect environment to deliver record-breaking figures for their customers and offer faster shipping and better courier rates.”

3PL, which recently opened a new 55,000 sq. ft facility now has access to over 250,000 sq. ft of flexible warehousing space across its national and international networks and has earned a number of significant client wins throughout the year including Accentuate Games (featured on the BBC’ Dragons Den) nutritional supplements retailer Natures Plus and Innovative Swiss water bottle designer SIGG.

“2019 was a defining year throughput wise where a step change was made in scale of operations. This would not have been possible without significant infrastructure investment to facilitate such growing demand.” said 3PL Founder & Managing Director Ian Walker “Rounding off 2019 with a record peak season is especially satisfying and sets us up for another record year in 2020. “

DKV Euro Service has appointed Jesper Erichsen (right) as new Chief Operating Officer (COO). A newly created position, Erichsen is responsible for Operations, IT and Project Management. He reports to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of DKV, Peter Meier.

“In Jesper Erichsen, we have been able to acquire an absolute top manager as COO”, says CEO Marco van Kalleveen. “As a highly-respected industry expert, he will help us achieve our ambitious growth goals.”

Danish national Jesper Erichsen was most recently CIO Advisor at Belron International, a glass repair and replacement group. Before that, Erichsen had been the CIO of LeasePlan. His previous roles included the position of CIO at TNT Express, and at DSV, another transportation and logistics company, where he worked to integrate systems as DSV grew rapidly through acquisition. He has also been the CIO and held senior management positions at Arla Foods, a Denmark-based global dairy company, as well as a management consultant for Deloitte.