Toll Today March 2011 - TOLL Group

oad Trauma Support Program
Wins Safety recognition
Toll Tasmania was a recent
finalist for the ‘Best Workplace
Solution’ category in the 2010
Tasmanian Safety Awards. Held at
the Grand Chancellor hotel in Hobart,
on 30 October the team received
recognition for their submission relating
to road and accident trauma.
With 239 serious road injuries and
31 fatalities in the state in 2010, road
safety is an important issue for all road
users. As a leading transport operator
in Tasmania, Toll has a responsibility
to demonstrate best practice and this
program does that. By responding
to road trauma with a well structured
Team Lands Top Supplier Award
Congratulations to Toll SPD
on recently winning the
DuluxGroup Supplier
of the Year for 2010.
The team at Toll SPD attended an
awards dinner in Melbourne in
December where they were nominated
for and won the DuluxGroup Supplier
of the Year award for the Transport
and Logistics (ANZ) 2010 category
beating another five finalists to the title.
Later in the evening, Toll SPD was then
shortlisted with four other category
Tui Products Ltd is a large and
valuable customer for Toll Tranzlink
in Tauranga, New Zealand.
Using the Toll Tranzlink supply chain
network in 2010, Tui Products Ltd won
the very prestigious Mitre 10 Supreme
Supplier of the Year Award. This award
was in recognition of delivering garden
horticulture products to all the Mitre 10
stores around New Zealand, in full, on
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counselling and support program,
Toll hopes to give drivers the confidence
and support they need to overcome
any accidents they are involved in
or witness to.
winners for the coveted Supplier of
the Year Award 2010 and won. The
team received the award which was
presented by the DuluxGroup CEO,
Patrick Houilhan.
The award is particularly special as
it not only recognises the integral
work Toll does with the DuluxGroup
but also demonstrates the strength
of the partnership. Additionally, as
the DuluxGroup measures suppliers
against 30 core competencies
and then awards one supplier this
prestigious award from over 3,000
The program uses the services
of a specialist provider in assisting
Toll employees, contractors and
third parties in recovering from
road trauma related incidents. n
DuluxGroup suppliers, this makes
the win an even greater coup for
the Toll SPD team.
Mitre 10 and Tui recognise
Toll New Zealand’s Great Service
time, in specification and consistently
throughout the year.
Toll Tranzlink New Zealand was
acknowledged by Tui Products as
being the major contributor to their
success and appreciation was warmly
conveyed. Well done and a special
thank you to all the Toll Tranzlink
branches and staff.
Brett Curtis, General Manager at
Toll SPD accepted the award on behalf
of his team and was delighted with
the recognition his team received from
one of their key customers. He said,
“I wish to make special mention of
the great teamwork and the effort from
the account management team and
the operations teams in all states who
were all given special mention during
my acceptance speech on the night”. n
Toll New Zealand Group General
Manager Greg Miller said, “This is
fantastic news and much appreciated,
but not expected, given that Mitre 10’s
transport provider is our competitor,
Mainfreight.
“To see Mitre 10 recognise Tui as
the supreme supplier and therefore
acknowledge Toll New Zealand as
Tui’s logistics partner shows we
must be doing something right”. n
Domestic Forwarding
5 The Toll Tasmania
team receiving their
commendation.
L-R: Dylan Harper,
Andrea Cross,
John Simic,
Steve McNamara,
Ann Murray,
David Holmes,
Wayne Howells,
Phil Giffard,
William Hinds,
and Steve Joseph.
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6 L-R: Patrick
Houilhan presents
Brett Curtis with
the award.
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7 L-R: Stephen
Thomas, Toll Tranzlink,
Tauranga Branch
Manager; Don Forgie,
MD Tui Products
Limited; and Rob
Pakes, Business
Development Manager
Bay of Plenty / Waikato.
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