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Tech Track list of Britain's fastest growing private technology companies. 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.
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courier. The business won Allason recognition as a Growing Business Top Gun 2007, and Bregman from the
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license. As of October 2008, their data set included over 252 million historical positions.
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The company was founded by Tom Allason and Jay Bregman, after event tickets were lost by a
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firm Logispring also owned a minority stake in the company. In 2007, the company won the
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distributes orders to couriers in real time based on location,
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Companies based in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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positions of its couriers, and uploads this information to
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Moules, Jonathan: Couriers Have High-Speed Connection,
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and an intelligent dispatch system assigns orders via
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Medallists of the Individual Excellence Awards 2005
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Private
Logistics
London
United Kingdom
London
ecourier.co.uk
courier
GPS
GPRS
algorithm
traffic
weather
demand
Italy
GPS
OpenStreetMap
API
Creative Commons
motorcycle
British Computer Society
Esther Dyson
Stuart Wheeler
Venture Capital
Evening Standard
Shutl
The Sunday Times
Michael Trick
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