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ANNOUNCEMENT : Elite Southampton staff to take part in sponsored walk for JDRF

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or JDRF, helps children and their families with Type 1 Diabetes. 25,000 children in the UK have Type 1 Diabetes for which there is currently no cure. The JDRF is the worlds leading charitable funder of Type 1 Diabetes research.

Elite Transport Southampton is taking part in the Walk to cure Diabetes. This is a five mile walk on 25th of September at Manor Farm Country Park. If you would like to sponsor us please visit our just giving page at www.justgiving.com/elitetransport

Many thanks
Elite Transport

ANNOUNCEMENT : Elite Transport is delighted to announce the strategic acquisition of the container haulage business interests of Matthews International Transport Ltd

The acquisition includes 50 trucks and trailers and expands Elites’ strategically placed network to 8 depots across the UK and further strengthens the company’s presence in Felixtowe.

Andy Frost, MD at Elite stated “this strategic acquisition is a clear demonstration of the Board’s stated ambition to expand the business to become one of the top three container hauliers in the UK. It builds on our existing depot infrastructure, strengthens our presence in Felixtowe and expands our customer base to include short sea operators. I am delighted with the acquisition and look forward to the future with renewed optimism”.

ANNOUNCEMENT: MANCHESTER BASED OFFICE TO BE MOVED TO PURPOSE BUILT SITE BY APRIL 2011
Monday 14th February 2011

Elite Transport Services Limited are delighted to announce that as part of the Company’s ongoing strategic expansion programme, we are relocating our Manchester-based Head Office operation to a new purpose-built site by April 2011.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: STAFF APPOINTMENTS AT ELITE

Effective Wednesday 1st December 2010, Mr Gary Bethel will relinquish his role of Managing Director to take up the role of Chairman. As a result of this change, we are absolutely delighted to announce that we have appointed Mr ANDY FROST, who will be joining us as our new Managing Director.

ANNOUNCEMENT: STAFF APPOINTMENTS AT ELITE

We are pleased to announce the appointment of PAUL STUDD as our new Felixstowe Depot Manager, Paul has a wealth of experience in the Container Transport industry and will greatly strengthen our Felixstowe operation

Elite Transport is delighted to be able to sponsor this year's
IFW Award for the Freight Forwarder of the Year

Specialising in the container transport sector, freight forwarding companies form a significant percentage of our client base. In sponsoring this particular award, we recognise how much of a contribution to our own success, the freight forwarding community has made. We feel that this is an excellent opportunity to show our appreciation, not just to our loyal customers, but to the industry as a whole

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NEW LOOK WEBSITE LAUNCHED

Elite Transport Services Limited are happy to release our new look website to the public. As you will see, we have refreshed the design to give our website a much more user friendly look and feel which is hopefully pleasing on the eye as well as easy to navigate.

Please feel free to get in touch and let us know what you think.

ELITE ANNOUNCEMENT: OPENING OF BRISTOL DEPOT

Elite Transport Services Limited is delighted to advise that as part of the company’s ongoing strategic expansion programme we will be opening a new transport operation in Bristol.

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ELITE SHORTLISTED FOR AWARD WITH IFW 2009
Elite Transport Services Ltd are very proud to announce that we have been shortlisted for the IFW Awards 2009 Judged Entry categories, in the category ‘Road Freight Award’. The other finalists in the category are DSV Road, Gefco, Knights of Old, Rutges Cargo, The Pallet Network (Ireland).

The judges were very impressed with the high quality and quantity of entries received and took a long time to decide the winners.

The shortlist has now been published on the IFW website. The winners will be announced in an awards ceremony on Thursday 15 October at the Chelsea Football Club, London.

ANNOUNCEMENT: STAFF APPOINTMENTS AT ELITE

GENERAL MANAGER APPOINTED FOR THE SOUTHERN AREA


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JMC IMPLEMENT ELITE SOLUTION : JMC PRESS REPORT
JMC has worked with Elite since early 2005. Initially a Pegasus Opera II client, Elite has recently implemented a significant business continuity (BC) solution to ensure it has as resilient a system as possible...
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RECORD FINANCIAL RESULTS
Elite Transport posts strong year end results in their last financial year (June 08), both revenue and profit was at an all time record high for the Company, the Board were also delighted with the first quarter of the new financial year, again a record in the Companies history. Although the current economic climate presents many problems for the transport industry, with the support of their extensive customer base Elite are in a very healthy condition to successfully manage their way through 2009

CUSTOMER SERVICE
Elite transport are delighted to receive positive comments from one of the top global container carriers NYK.

NYK’s Simon Parson’s comments: "As per our recent review meeting I did promise to drop you line to congratulate Elite Transport as a whole for the best ''group'' performance ever record in a month period.

Many thanks to all @ Elite Transport who delivered such a good result and long may it continue!"

COMPANY DEVELOPMENT : STAFF MEMO
The Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to keep you our valued members of staff informed of the development of our company. Most of you will be aware that a decision was taken 18 months ago to develop the company to a new level, and it was the Board’s intention to become a top 5 UK container trucking company...
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ELITE TRANSPORT INVITED BY SCT TO PRESENT A SERIES OF TALKS
Elite Transport were recently invited by Southampton Container Terminals (SCT) to present a series of talks to a cross section of their staff and workforce. The subject matter being "a hauliers perspective of market conditions and problems encountered within the UK container trucking industry"
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THAMESPORT TRANSPORT OPERATION OPENED
Elite Transport Services are delighted to advise that as part of the companies ongoing strategic expansion programme we will be opening a transport operation at the Port of Thamesport.
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ELITE TYRE TRIAL KICKS OFF ON NEW FLEET
Elite Transport Services is conducting an extensive tyre trial using its newly delivered fleet of 15 Volvo FH 480 6x2 tractor units, supplied on contract hire through MC Truck & Bus.
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HILL HIRE SECURE CONTRACT WITH ELITE TRANSPORT.
Hill Hire plc, has secured a huge contract win with Container Haulier, Elite Transport Services Ltd. Hill Hire will provide 100 Dennison Tri Axle Sliding Skeletal Trailer vehicles to the company in a deal worth in excess of £1.3m.
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Elite Transport Services has recently opened a new depot in Leeds. Based at the Containerbase it can serve the area from the railhead, as well as being close to the ports of Teesport, Immingham and Hull.

Details of the new office can be found on this website.
For any enquiries please contact Depot Manager Stuart Roebuck.

Elite Transport Services Ltd. (the Company) trade solely upon the conditions of the Road Haulage Association 1998 Edition. Full details of which will be provided on request.