Amtrak Win GBP 3.5m Contract with Leading Computer Supplies Company Systemax.Business Editors BRISTOL, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2004 Express parcel company Amtrak Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run has won a GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 3.5 million contract with Systemax, Europe's largest computer supplies company. Amtrak will be providing next day deliveries nationwide for orders received through Systemax trading companies; Misco, Simply Computers, Systemax PCs and Global Industrial Equipment. Amtrak will be collecting thousands of consignments nightly from the Systemax distribution centre in Scotland. Systemax selected Amtrak because of its flexible and responsive network that includes evening deliveries which are useful for home deliveries. With Amtrak, Systemax can enter their last orders as late as 6pm for collection from Scotland and delivery as early as 9am throughout the UK. Systemax is best known in the UK through its trading brands, Misco in the business to business market, Simply Computers for consumers, and Global Equipment for the Industrial market. Over 20,000 products are available for immediate shipment from the Systemax distribution centre at Greenock, including ready- to-ship and customer configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: Systemax own brand PCs, laptops and servers. Amtrak also has a track record with Systemax and the company returns to replace a competitor that Systemax had contracted in 2002. "Amtrak has proved to have a level of service that no one else can match in our experience" says Roddy Payne, Logistics Director of Systemax Europe. "Amtrak provide the infrastructure that an operation of this scale requires. At the same time we are in a premium market where customer expectations are very high. Amtrak provides unrivalled flexibility that gives us a later evening cut-off cut-off Anesthesiology The point at which elongation of the carbon chain of the 1-alkanol family of anesthetics results in a precipitous drop in the anesthetic potential of these agents–eg, at > 12 carbons in length, there is little anesthetic activity, and options such as evening deliveries. We in turn are able to provide a better service than our competitors, whether serving UK businesses or consumers" continues Roddy Payne. Amtrak run a 100-plus location network with automated and manual sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. hubs in the Midlands. Recognised as one of the UK's most successful franchise businesses, Amtrak has recently invested in state-of-the-art mobile scanning and image capture devices and web-based booking and tracking. NOTES TO EDITORS Systemax Europe is an IT reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. through direct mail catalogues, Corporate Account management and e-commerce, operating in the UK under the brand names Misco, Simply Computers and Global Industrial. Systemax also has operations in Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, France and Sweden and also serves Portugal, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium from those countries. Systemax currently employs approximately 600 people in the UK, and 1400 across the whole of Europe and is the Number One direct mail IT reseller in Europe. Amtrak Express Amtrak Express is Amtrak's freight and shipping service. It handles small package express service, heavy freight shipments and city-to-city freight shipping by private and commercial customers. Parcels Ltd is one of the UK's leading and fastest-growing express parcels companies with a range of collection and delivery services that cover the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. It has more than 100 strategically located depots across the UK and operates a fleet of more than 1,000 delivery vehicles. Amtrak has an industry-leading reputation for outstanding service quality and value for money and surpasses the stringent BSEN BSEN Biological Systems Engineering ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9002 quality standard. Photograph will be available on request |
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