eCourier.co.uk - Happiness delivered

eCourier founder Jay Bregman was invited to a breakfast of business leaders on 1 April 2010 (No joke!) to discuss the state of small business lending in the UK and the government�s plans for a small business loan adjudicator service. See coverage on BBC News at 10.

eCourier believes that our carbon offset should maximise the environmental and social impact of our investment. Carbon Clear has access to unique projects in war-torn regions like Darfur and the Democratic Republic of the Congo where our involvement brings happiness to those most in need.

eCourier founder Jay Bregman (and LSE alumnus) talks about eCourier�s experience during the Credit Crunch in the latest issue of "Connect", the magazine for alumni for the London School of Economics and Political Science.

eCourier helped raise �110,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support-- For the third year running, eCourier lent our support to awesome charity Macmillan, dedicated to helping improve the lives of people affected by cancer. Their main fund-raiser is a star-studded auction, where celebrities build their dream stockings and auction them off at a gala reception at the Waldorf Hilton. eCourier delivered happiness for Macmillan by donating same day and next day deliveries to ensure the stockings were in the hands of their new owners by Christmas.

We placed 4th in London and 23rd in all of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa! Over the five year period since our founding, Deloitte calculated our growth rate at an eye-popping 5291%.

eCourier featured in Mayor of London�s Responsible Procurement report for our work with the Greater London Authority.

This October eCourier became a delivery partner for the �London For London� charity event. London For London took place on October 3rd and involved some of Greater London�s most prominent celebrities and prestigious venues. The idea was that everyone who walked through the doors was asked to donate just £1. The three charities that benefited were London based charities working on behalf of London�s youths.

eCourier quoted in FT�s analysis of the impact of the recent postal strikes.

eCourier has won a ranking of 53 in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100, recognising us as one of the fastest-growing and most innovative technology companies in the country. Bucking the recession, we have grown at 55% year or year since 2005. Thanks to all our customers for helping us make the cut!

Upheavals reshape lives. Had the dotcom bubble not burst, Jay Bregman might never have found his way to London, let alone founded eCourier. Edge, the magazine of the Institute of Learning and Management meets the American who came to study for a year and turned the capital�s traditional delivery industry on its head.

Management today looks at a week in the life of eCourier founder Jay Bregman.

The magazine of the Institute of Directors explores eCourier�s Swine Flu outbreak business continuity preparations.

We record every eCourier�s position every 10 seconds and store it in a massive data warehouse. We and our customers use this information daily to track couriers and to enable �snail trial� discoveries of past courier movements, but we also use it to try and improve Larry�s travel time predictions. We have over 395 million positions stored up so far! Now, we�ve received government funding in the form of a £400k grant from the TSB to use this data to improve travel time forecasts and routes in London and for other applications.

eCourier�s response to the recession explored in online publication Entrepreneur Country.

eCourier calls for improvements to electric van technology.

eCourier raises £1M from the Royal Bank of Scotland to fund expansion, continued innovation.

London daily CityAM profiles eCourier's contribution to research by the Institute of Leadership and Management about management in a recession. It's all about positivity (and that's good, because we're all about happiness).

eCourier founder Jay Bregman named "Enterprising Young Brit" by Make Your Mark and The Daily Mail, honouring successful UK business entrepreneurs under 30.

The FT profiles eCourier's use of SeeWhy's real-time business intelligence technology to detect customer problems the moment they arise.

One to One magazine profiles eCourier in their series on boosting your bottom line using customer insight.

Fleet World profiles the environmental savings of eCourier's technology: "By implementing sustainable location and timing technologies they've become completely carbon neutral, increasing the efficiency of their company, including a 35% reduction in staffing costs."

eCourier.co.uk, Europe's fastest growing same day, next day and international courier company was delighted to sponsor Macmillan Cancer Support's Celebrity Christmas Stocking Auction, by delivering the stockings to the lucky winners.

Maurice Boland interviews eCourier founder Jay Bregman on his "Enterprise" programme featuring entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses from scratch on REM.fm, Spain's largest English language radio network.

Each year, Courvoisier sets out to identify outstanding individuals for its Future 500, a list of the country's top achievers across ten wide-ranging categories. In 2008, they included eCourier.co.uk Founder Jay Bregman.

Computing invites eCourier's Jay Bregman to explain how constant innovation is part and parcel of his strategy for delivering competitive advantage at eCourier.

It's official: eCourier.co.uk has landed on Facebook. Check out our page (eCourier.co.uk) and become a fan.

Growing Business sits down with eCourier founder Jay Bregman to discuss how eCourier bridges a high-technology Internet business with the on-demand realities of a courier service.

The Sunday Telegraph talks to eCourier founder Jay Bregman and asks: Does IT work?

eCourier has been selected, alongside TNT and Royal Mail, as one of six firms to carry out deliveries for UK Government departments under a £150M agreement with OGCbuying.solutions.

The eCourier.co.uk team came within a whisker of victory (12^th, to be exact) at the charity race on kid's tricycles, the Shoreditch Grand Prix. Check out our photo set on Flickr.

eCourier sponsors the inaugural Shoreditch Grand Prix, a charity tricycle race on 31 August. Come and cheer on team eCourier.co.uk as we blast around the streets of Shoreditch raising money for worthy causes.

Bmighty.com profiles eCourier as one of its "Mid-Market Heroes", profiling how we leverage IT for smarter, faster deliveries.

CIO magazine profiles eCourier's use of cutting-edge operational business intelligence, using software from our friends at SeeWhy.

The Telegraph talks to eCourier about SMEs turning to alternative mail providers in the wake of repeated strikes by the Royal Mail.

E-consultancy speaks to Jay Bregman, eCourier's CTO, about eCourier's benefits for online retailers and an upcoming ecommerce API.

From working in an office and having no technical knowledge three years ago, Tom Allason has become the man at the top of one of the fastest growing online companies in the UK.

American Jay Bregman, CTO at London-based eCourier, was studying entrepreneurship at the LSE when he started working on an idea.

In the world of delivery, it takes a lot for a company to stand out from the masses, but that's exactly what Tom Allason and Jay Bregman are succeeding in doing with their venture, www.ecourier.co.uk

Demands for greater business agility are threatening to widen the infamous gap between business and IT. What can organisations do to ensure a high level of alignment?

eCourier delivers packages. That sounds like a mundane business, but by using real-time dispatching and allowing its customers to enter their orders electronically, the company can offer better, more reliable service at a lower cost.

In each issue, Communications Engineer, the magazine of the Institute of Engineering, asks experts to comment on an engineering problem. This issue, the question concerned a courier company with a "fleet of vans that carry parcels anywhere within a 60 mile radius of a major city" seeking a systems upgrade.

Better Business magazine explores eCourier's roots: "...it seemed that the conventional courier company wasn't meeting expectations. In any service industry, the customer is king, so when we first started that was what we decided to focus on."

In the face of indifferent customer service, our first reaction is often to yell ineffectually, before submitting to the apathetic voice on the other end of the phone. Not so with Tom Allason.

eCourier CEO and co-founder Tom Allason was named to BT's Essence of the Entrepreneur Top 20.

The o2 "50 to Watch in Mobile" is the first ever independently compiled list identifying the 50 most important mobile computing companies in Britain; eCourier was selected, identified as "using cutting edge technology to track courier parcels". The list was published in conjunction with Real Business, and appears in the November issue.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) aims at providing free geographic data such as street maps. The project relies on volunteers carrying GPS devices to generate mapping data (longtitude and latitude). This is where eCourier comes into play: we produce millions of mapping data points a week, which we donate to OpenStreetMap project.

eCourier, the company that has changed the way packages are delivered across London and the UK, has celebrated its first year of operation with a raft of industry awards, accolades and impressive first year results. No doubt about it, eCourier has gone from "nought to sixty" in no time at all.

Trendy webzine Daily Candy, as essential as morning coffee to its followers, featured eCourier on 20 September: "The whole operation is so user-friendly you'll want to invite them round to your house for a quick cuppa and a cosy chat."

Last Sunday eCourier's Chief Technical Officer, Jay Bregman, rocked London's airwaves in an interview with prominent radio hosts Charlie Jordan and Alison Cork, who described the service as "fantastic."

Bregman told IFW: "Things hadn't changed in the same-day courier business since the 1970s either in terms of IT or service. There was a feeling that your package went off into the ether and by the grace of God arrived at the other end."

The British Computer Society has selected our relentless Chief Technical Officer, Jay Bregman, as one of four finalists for its IT Director of the Year Award. He is now in contention for an award recognised as "the most professional and prestigious IT Award in the UK."

Customers wishing to use their credit or debit card to pay online for courier services can now do so, following the link up between innovative express logistics provider, eCourier, and payment services provider, DataCash.

When eCourier Ltd. developed an innovative online package-tracking system for its customers last summer, it had to coordinate work among front and back-end developers in Italy, Germany and the U.K. But instead of using traditional project management software to monitor the project, the developers used weblogging tools from Providence, R.I.-based Traction Software Inc. to generate project updates and provide a record of the work.

In its first year, internet-based courier firm eCourier is set for £1.6m sales and £8m in 06/07. Real Business talked to eCourier CEO Tom Allason about how it all started.

Industry publication Despatch Manager examines why "a host of high-profile businesses have converted to what is arguably the country's fastest-growing courier business."

Computing turned to tracking experts eCourier for insight on an article on "how the European space programme can lead to improved satellite navigation for users and businesses on the ground." Says CTO Jay Bregman, "Other courier companies rely soley on human control and reporting, which we don't think is enough."

The Evening Standard just discovered a "really useful, efficient, and cheap delivery service operating in London."

What do you do when the event tickets you ordered should've turned up by courier but got delayed and consequently you and your friends missed the show? You decide to start up your own courier company. That's what Tom Allason and his colleagues have done.