The recent successful worldwide distribution of the latest Harry Potter book was instrumental in TNT Network Logistics being awarded a three-year contract with Macmillan Distribution.
As well as publishing books, Macmillan also operates a distributor business for other publishers, including Bloomsbury, the publisher of the Harry Potter books.
Last year TNT Network Logistics won the contract to store and distribute the huge number of copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in the tightest security operation ever undertaken by the company.
TNT Network Logistics has a particular focus on the publishing, print and media industries, and incorporates TNT Newsfast through which it delivers all the nation's daily and Sunday newspapers.
David Bermingham, managing director, TNT Network Logistics, is sure the success of the Harry Potter operation helped convince Macmillan that the two companies would work well together. "This was a very high pressure operation, undertaken within a very short timescale and under the tightest security."
The new contract covering the nationwide distribution of third party books from Macmilllan’s Swansea operation, is co-ordinated through TNT Network Logistics’ depot at Bristol. TNT will be delivering 80 - 100 pallets a day to wholesalers, retailers, and freight forwarders (for export orders).
