TNT Express France has won a contract to deliver goods ordered online from leading e-retailerCdiscount.com. The deal extends the operator’s home delivery activities in France.
Since September, TNT Express France has been delivering goods within 24 hours for the salesportal, which claims to be France’s largest e-commerce website.
Under the cooperation, consumers buying goods on Cdiscount.com can select TNT as theirtransport provider and have their items delivered direct to their home. Deliveries are made within24 hours of the order being processed, with deliveries made Monday to Saturday between 08:00 and13:00. Cdiscount.com customers can track their goods through the website.
If the consumer is not at home, the item is made available on the same day at the nearestRelais Colis pick-up point and the customer is informed by SMS. TNT cooperates with this parceldrop-off and pick-up network, which works on a shop-in-shop retail basis and has 3,800 outletsacross France.
The e-retail website was set up in 1998 and now claims that one in three French internetusers purchases though its portal. It has 40 online shops, 5.2 million customers and more than25,000 orders per day.
