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BoxTop joins winners at latest BIFA Freight Service Awards ceremony held in London yesterday.
20 January, 2012In its 23rd year the highly coveted BIFA annual awards ceremony was attended by over 400 freight forwarders, hosted by accomplished media personality, broadcaster and author, Christine Hamilton.
Christopher Hewlett, Managing Director of BoxTop Technologies Ltd, long time sponsors and supporters of BIFA, was pleased to present the Supply Chain Management category award to a delighted Philip Brown, representing SBS Worldwide.
In it’s submission SBS Worldwide described how, jointly with its consultancy, it revolutionised the consolidation of printing for a medical publishing client of theirs. The newly-created supply chain now allows the publisher to consolidate the printing of millions of books per year in Asia, whilst having massively reduced the logistics costs in year one of operation.
SBS Worldwide is the deserved winner of this category for illustrating an excellent example of a true vendor relationship. Their tailored real-time web solution not only provided end-to end-visibility, via multiple media, but also incorporated their customer’s key performance indicators, in addition to demonstrating tangible benefits in cost, transit time and flexibility.
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18 November, 2011ActionCOACH Yorkshire and the North East business Awards 2011 were held at Harewood House, near Leeds recently, where over 30 successful businesses competed for one of six prestigious awards for their achievements.
Judged by David Streather of Lloyds TSB, Keith Madeley (known as Mr. Yorkshire), together with Jonathan Jones of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey (UK) LLP, the six award categories were bestowed on companies that have embraced the coaching process and as a result were able to demonstrate outstanding business performance. These categories included Marketing, Innovation, Entrepreneur, Team, Financial and Business of the Year. “This year the judges have had a tough choice as so many companies have shown incredible success in so many different ways” stated Keith Madeley.
The most sought after award on the night ‘Business of the Year Award 2011′, was won by GXD Logistics from Goole. Managing Director Graham Cross was delighted to have been honoured for the successes achieved in his business over the last 12 months and said “The award came out of the blue but once I’d had time to think about it I could see how it amounted to recognition of what the whole team has achieved at GXD.” The business offers an unrivalled freight forwarding service, their expertise and experience enables them to transport cargo safely and efficiently by air, sea or road. Their success, despite the current economic climate, has enabled them to substantially increase turnover, generating raised net profit returns. Graham has been coached by ActionCOACH Mandy Hildred of York over the last two years, Graham has said “The effect of Mandy’s coaching is that I am working more efficiently and so is the business, with systems that measure on a daily basis where we are and where we want to go”.
Paul Richardson, BoxTop’s Business Development Manager says “We’re always delighted to hear success stories, but especially when it involves one of our customers! On behalf of everyone at BoxTop I’d like to congratulate Graham Cross and the whole team at GXD Logistics on winning this prestigious award.”
See moreBoxTop attends Multimodal Exhibition at NEC
08 April, 2011Multimodal 2011 – was visited by over 4,000 shippers, freight forwarders, manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, distributors, importers and exporters.
Multimodal 2011 is the UK and Ireland’s largest and most transport and logistics exhibition. The event is huge. Hall 4 at the NEC is 16,700m2 – almost 2.5 the size the times of Wembley!
This year – the event welcomes BoxTop Technologies Ltd for the first time – a leading freight management software suppliers in the UK.
As well as almost 200 exhibitions stands, Multimodal featured a whole array of seminars, workshops, trade briefings, networking occasions and features. All free-of-charge to visitors – and visiting was free too!
With ample car parking, fantastic train connections and Birmingham International Airport on-site – the NEC is the perfect location to host this prestigious event.
According to Multimodal, this exhibition provides visitors with hard-to-get information, a “shop-window” of top service providers, unrivalled networking opportunities and great peer-to-peer contact.
Commenting on the success of the exhibition, Paul Richardson – BoxTop’s Business Development Manager says “This was the first time we’ve exhibited at Multimodal and it’s been a resounding success. Not only did we get a chance to say hello to some of our existing customers but we were also delighted with the number and quality of prospects that visited our stand. We’ve already decided that we’ll be back in 2012 with a bigger and better stand!”
See moreBoxTop proudly presents award to Damco
20 January, 2011The BIFA Supply Chain Management category is open to companies who have provided a customer-focused innovative solution enabling a more efficient and cost-effective management of the supply chain.
Damco were the deserved winner of this category as they demonstrated clear and tangible benefits for their customers with the introduction of a service of innovative systems aimed to help improve the quality of information within the supply chain.
The award was presented by Paul Richardson, Business Development Manager, BoxTop Technologies Ltd to Anatoliy Nagornyy of Damco UK
See moreBoxTop customers growing fast!
11 July, 2010In the first ever Sunday Times, ‘International Track 100′ BoxTop customers appear in the league table of privately owned firms with the fastest growing international sales.
International Track 100 is compiled by Fast Track, the Oxford company that researches Britain’s top-performing private companies and provides a useful analysis, of the available figures, on growth in overseas trade by British private companies.
Horizon International Cargo, a BoxTop customer for many years, is ranked 39th with growth of nearly 80% a year between 2007 and 2009. Since the company started its operations in 1991 as a small air freight business at London’s Heathrow airport, it has grown substantially and now employs 90 staff in 11 offices worldwide to handle the demand from customers for its air, sea and logistics services. Horizon has opened five overseas offices in the past two years.
B & H Worldwide, in 89th place, provides supply-chain management and logistics services to the aerospace and publishing industries and have been using BoxTop since 1997. BoxTop is currently used by B & H in their offices in the UK, USA, Asia and Australia.
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