CEVA Newsfast and Smiths News to extend collaboration to include final mile delivery and reverse logistics services

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CEVA Newsfast and Smiths News, both leading network innovators operating across a range of industry sectors, today announced plans to extend their ongoing collaboration with the objective of leveraging the respective capabilities of the two businesses, their complementary systems, service offerings, and operational infrastructures.

CEVA Newsfast and Smiths News will jointly be targeting a wide range of industry sectors, offering added value in end-to-end supply chain solutions building on their successful cooperation delivering Christmas hampers last year. Services to be marketed include final-mile delivery of consumer products to independent and convenience stores as well as integrated reverse logistics services for book and media products.

CEVA Newsfast operates a 24/7 national warehousing and primary transport network from 18 strategic sites in the UK, while Smiths News runs 44 local warehouses and a van delivery network serving up to 22,000 customers every day across a number of regions in England and Wales

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