UK – DPD – 10 new depots creating 15,000 jobs

UK parcel firm DPD is to invest £175m to expand its capacity, creating 10 new depots, one new parcel sorting hub and creating 15,000 jobs in response to the online retail boom.

The parcel firm plans to spend £100m on a new parcel sorting hub in the East Midlands in addition to refurbishing two of its other hubs to increase the number of parcels it can handle each night.

The investment follows a period of growth spearheaded by the company’s Predict service (launched in March 2010) which has generated over £70m of new business to date and over 1,000 new full-time jobs in the past 12 months, as a flood of major retailers switched to DPD…

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