Britvic has outsourced its secondary distribution and vending machine operations to KN Drinks Logistics in a ten-year contract. Britvic previously carried out the work in-house, but the new contract will see KN Drinks - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) - transport stock to pubs, bars and food service outlets, along with restocking 10,000 vending machines. Britvic owns brands such as Pepsi, Robin-sons,Tango and J2O.
The Britvic staff who were carrying out the work have been absorbed
into the KN Drinks distribution net-work and have transferred as employees of K+N under TUPE regulations. K+N has reported "accelerated" growth of turnover and earnings for the first nine months of 2007. Turnover grew to £6.4bn, compared with £5.5bn for the same period in 2006, while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation were worth £295m in 2007, rising from £255m in 2006.
Rail and road logistics saw turnover grow by 16.9%, while turnover for the group's contract logistics division rose by 20.4%.
