British parcels management company Global Freight Solutions (GFS) has announced that it has addedone of the UK’s leading premium express delivery companies to its roster of carrier partners.
City Link becomes the latest major carrier to join forces with GFS as it seeks to furtherevolve the range of delivery options offered to its clients.
GFS, which describes itself as the country’s top parcel and carrier manager, handles severalmillion items each year for customers in the financial services, technology, baby products, leisureand automotive industries.
GFS Managing Director Neil Cotty said the agreement represented another major step forward inhis company’s efforts to deliver the best possible service.
“We are constantly looking for partners who can help us literally deliver on our promises toclients. City Link’s undoubted strength in providing quality delivery services makes it a naturalally for ourselves.“
The fact that City Link also has the sort of strong reputation for technology which hasunderpinned our growth is another reason why we believe they will help us round out our offer toour clients.”
The City Link partnership is the latest in a series of developments planned by GFS this yearas it moves towards the completion of its first decade in business. The company became the first UKfirm to offer customers the chance to move goods via a number of different couriers when it startedtrading in 2001.
Duncan Faithfull, Sales & Marketing Director at City Link, commented: “We are delightedto be working in partnership with GFS. Not only do they share a similar ethos to ourselves in termsof delivering exceptional levels of customer service but their key target markets very much mirrorours. We very much look forward to continuing to develop our relationship with GFS over the comingmonths.”
City Link, which is part of Rentokil Initial plc, operates more than 2,500 vehicles from anational network of corporately-owned depots. Since being founded in 1969, it has become renownedfor the quality of its deliveries, including a broad range of premium timed services.
