CIO 100 COMPANIES IN Transport and Distribution

7. DHL

It has been a good year for Nigel Underwood's IT team at DHL Logistics. The major integration project to merge the UK logistics company Exel with DHL parent company, Deutsche Post was completed ahead of schedule. The benefits it has delivered has built much credibility for IT across the new business, according to Underwood.

8. Royal Mail Group

Group Technology Director Robin Dargue arrived at the Royal Mail Group six months ago, with a remit to drive transformation. "I have inherited a fundamentally successful IT team that supported the £9 billion business of the Royal Mail on virtually nothing. It deserves a medal," he says. "Since I arrived we have now been up weighting the technology team so that it can cope with the transformation project ahead."

21. Rentokil Initial

Since his arrival as CIO at Rentokil-Initial in June last year Bryan Kinsella has been driving what he describes as a very large IT agenda. "We are intending to invest heavily, but carefully, in IT as we work to standardise and consolidate platforms on a global basis," he says.

26. BOC

The BOC incumbent CIO, Peter Dew, stepped up to head IT operations when BOC merged with Linde until earlier this year, when he was succeeded by Ronald Geiger, previously with SAP.

33. BA

British Airways ended its financial year on a high, with an operating profit of £875m and for the first time an operating margin of 10 percent. According to Paul Coby, BA’s CIO the figures were the result of a lot of hard work throughout the company, in the face of difficult trading conditions and rising oil costs – BA’s fuel bill last year was in excess of £2 billion.

41. Network Rail

Network Rail is the strategic authority responsible for the operating the UK’s railway system, with revenues of £5.8 billion last year, but with huge debts underwritten by the government. This year has been a busy one for its information management function, as its business programme delivery included the delivery of integrated train planning for the improved production of timetables; its Corporate Network Model to maintain geospatial data and the extension of the corporate document management programme.

49. Arriva

The public transportation services Arriva provides in the UK and across Europe are increasingly challenged by social, political, economic and environmental changes.

85. BAA

Perhaps this hasn’t been a total annus horribilis for Spanish-owned UK airport operator BAA – but it can’t be far off.

88. Group 4 Securicor

Group 4 Securicor is the largest security systems and services company in the world. It provides a range of cash-related services such as processing and transportation as well as security services such as training and prison management to both the public and private sector.

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