eCourier
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Logistics |
Genre | Corporate Histories |
Founded | London, United Kingdom (2003 ) |
Founder | Tom Allason Jay Bregman |
Headquarters | |
Services | Same day courier services |
Number of employees | 230 |
Website | ecourier.co.uk |
eCourier is a courier service based in the United Kingdom.
Courier positions are tracked by
The company stores the historical
The company was founded by Tom Allason and Jay Bregman, after event tickets were lost by a motorcycle courier.[5] The business won Allason recognition as a Growing Business Top Gun 2007, and Bregman from the British Computer Society as 2005 IT Director of the Year.[6][7]
Investors in the company include
In 2009, eCourier reached 6 on Deloitte’s list of UK’s 50 Fastest Growing Technology Businesses.[12] and #53 on The Sunday Times Tech Track list of Britain's fastest growing private technology companies.[13] In November 2015, eCourier was acquired by Royal Mail, and now has one of the largest and most recognisable courier fleets in London and the South.[14]
References
- ^ Michael Trick's Operations Research Blog, 23 June 2006, http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=81. See also articles from The Economist and Financial Times.
- ^ Real-Time Fleet Management At Ecourier Ltd http://www.springerlink.com/content/v41525296n068264/[permanent dead link]
- ^ Partners - OpenStreetMap https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Partners
- ^ eCourier Location API http://api.ecourier.co.uk/
- ^ Moules, Jonathan: Couriers Have High-Speed Connection, Financial Times, 18 March 2006
- ^ Award http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/06959143451303647930/young-guns-2007.html Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Medallists of the Individual Excellence Awards 2005
- ^ "eCourier - Parcel Delivery in Color" Alarm Clock, 18 October 2006, available at http://www.thealarmclock.com/euro/archives/2006/10/ecourier_parcel_deli.html Archived 6 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Winner: eCourier", Evening Standard, 2007 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/itsyourbusiness/article-23383010-details/The+winner:+eCourier/article.do
- ^ "eCourier.co.uk Founder Leaves to Pursue New venture" Press Release, 2008 [1] Archived 9 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Graham Charlton (9 December 2009). "Q&A: Tom Allason on e-commerce delivery startup Shutl". Econsultancy. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ "Winners List 2009", Deloitte, 2009 Archived 16 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Britain's fastest-growing private technology companies", Sunday Times, 2009 [2]
- ^ "Royal Mail acquires same day delivery company eCourier". Ecommerce News. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2020.