LOGISTICS DEVELOPMENT GROUP Aktie

 

Founder of the haulage business that carried his name and grew into a multimillion-pound concernHis was the name that adorned a thousand lorries, so familiar on the motorways of Britain that families would while away long journeys by counting them and recording their individual names – each was emblazoned with a woman's name. Yet Eddie Stobart, who has died aged 95, owned just eight trucks when he handed over the Cumbria-based business in the 1970s to his son Edward to run, concentrating instead on his agricultural interests and his active religious faith.Edward would build Eddie Stobart Ltd into a trucking business that at one point had more than 2,000 lorries and was eventually sold for £280m. He insisted on having his father's name (not his own) painted on the side of the vehicles as the company built up its reputation for well-maintained, high-quality vehicles, with uniformed drivers, and benefited from the huge growth in road haulage and moving goods by road rather than rail. Continue reading......

ZIGUP PLC (“ZIGUP” or the “Company”) 29 November 2024 Change of Director's Details In accordance with UKLR 6.4.9R(2), the Company announces that Mr Mark Butcher, Non-Executive Director of the Company, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of AIM-quoted Logistics Development Group plc with effect from 29 November 2024.  - ENDS - For further information, please contact: ZIGUP plc                                                                                    Matthew Barton, Company Secretary   +44 (0)1325 467 558...