TNT Logistics renews partnership with RCS Libri in Italy for 6 years
06 May 2005 - 11:23 CET
TNT Logistics, a leading global logistics provider, and RCS Libri, the book publishing division of the RCS Group, one of the major players on the Italian publishing scene, have renewed their contract for the outsourcing of logistics activities for another six years.Under the terms of the contract, which builds on a 10-year partnership between the two companies, TNT Logistics Italy provides RCS with storage and distribution services for books, ensuring the timely and simultaneous launch of new initiatives across the country, guaranteeing the distribution of stocks to bookshops and secondary warehouses, and taking responsibility for the collection and management of returned unsold copies of general and scholastic books published by RCS.
Activities are co-ordinated from the specialised hub of Gorgonzola, a well known publishing town, where TNT Logistics devotes an overall 24,000 m² exclusively to RCS-related activities. The engagement involves the handling and shipping of 28 million books per year, covering a total of more than 21,000 titles.
The renewal of the partnership with RCS Libri reinforces TNT Logistics Italy's leadership in the publishing & media field, a sector that has become of particular strategic importance for the company and one of its primary fields of expertise.
