Logistics and e-commerce fulfilment firm AmWorld Group has taken over courier company Crossflight in order to expand the range of services it can offer.
UK-based AmWorld Group explained that following the takeover, it would be able to offer customers the courier, mailing, storage & fulfilment, and project & events services offered by Crossflight.
Crossflight clients would benefit from “significantly greater reach and capability”.
The combined business will now be able to offer international and domestic courier, road, sea and airfreight management, TAPA certified storage and warehousing, ecommerce fulfilment, international and domestic mailing, event and project logistics, IT asset management and logistics, art logistics, same day delivery, air charter, and certified destruction.
“This is a significant step for both businesses, and one we have approached thoughtfully,” AmWorld said.
“The decision to bring Crossflight into the group was not driven by scale alone. It was driven by alignment: in values, in approach, and in what both teams believe great service looks like.”
Ian Bolton, chief executive, AmWorld Group, added: “Bringing Crossflight into the AmWorld Group is the result of a deliberate and carefully considered process.
“We were never pursuing scale for its own sake; our priority was finding the fit with a team that shares our standards and values with a customer base that expects and deserves a high level of service.”
Ben Morgan, joint managing director, Crossflight, explained: “The range of services we can now offer, the infrastructure behind it, the global reach: it changes the conversation entirely.
“What we have built at Crossflight is not going anywhere. But now it comes with something much bigger behind it, and I think our clients will feel that quickly.”
The integration of Crossflight into the AmWorld Group is underway, with both teams working together to “ensure the transition is smooth and that service quality is maintained throughout”.
