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Gist picked for retailer Eat's distribution
5th November 2009, Page 13
5th November 2009
Page 13
Page 13, 5th November 2009
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GIST HAS WON A contract to set up and operate a national distribution centre for high-street café chain Eat.
The transport firm will make chilled deliveries at night to Eat's national network of 100 shops from its facility in Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
Eat appointed logistics consultancy Davies & Robson to conduct the distribution tender process. Davies & Robson has prepared a contingency plan that allows the operation to continue uninterrupted in the event of the existing service being unexpectedly withdrawn.
Guy Harvey, finance director for Eat, believes Davies & Robson helped his company choose "a third-party that we are confident will uphold our delivery values':