london uk 2003 2003 founder tom allason jay bregman headquarters london services same day courier services number of employees 230 slogan happiness delivered website ecourier.co.uk footnotes references number of employees includes self employed sub contractor drivers ecourier is a uk courier service . courier positions are tracked by gps and an intelligent despatch system assigns orders via gprs improving efficiency in a traditional industry . 1 a computer algorithm distributes orders to couriers in real time based on location traffic weather and demand . the algorithm was developed by a team of academics in italy . 2 the company stores the historical gps positions of its couriers and uploads this information to openstreetmap . 3 this information is also offered to the public via an api under a creative commons license . as of october 2008 their data set included over 252 million historical positions . 4 the company was founded by tom allason and jay bregman after event tickets were lost by a motorcycle courier . 5 the business won allason recognition as a growing business top gun 2007 6 and bregman from the british computer society as 2005 it director of the year . 7 ecourier s office in shoreditch london investors in the company include esther dyson and stuart wheeler . venture capital firm logispring also owned a minority stake in the company . 8 in 2007 the company won the evening standard s most inspirational business award . 9 in 2008 allason left the company to pursue a new venture 10 and the following year launched shutl . 11 in 2009 ecourier reached 6 on deloitte s list of uk s 50 fastest growing technology businesses . 12 and 53 on the sunday times tech track list of britain s fastest growing private technology companies . 13 in 2011 to 2012 ecourier revenues were flat and the business was put up for sale . in 2012 ecourier was acquired by courier systems the trading name of revisecatch limited . this acquisition brought together the experience expertise and knowledge of courier systems and the technology and dynamism of ecourier which turned out to be a good fit for both businesses . in 2013 ecourier uk ltd changed its name to kandysystems ltd and was put into voluntary liquidation . 14 revisecatch limited 15 now uses the ecourier trading name for all of its courier business and has phased out the use of the courier systems name . ecourier now has one of the largest and most recognisable courier fleets in london and the south . references edit michael trick s operations research blog 23 june 2006 http mat.tepper.cmu.edu blog p 81 . michael trick is a professor of operations research at carnegie mellon . see also articles from the economist and financial times . real time fleet management at ecourier ltd http www.springerlink.com content v41525296n068264 partners openstreetmap http wiki.openstreetmap.org index.php partners ecourier location api http api.ecourier.co.uk moules jonathan couriers have high speed connection financial times 18 march 2006 award http www.growingbusiness.co.uk 06959143451303647930 young guns 2007.html medallists of the individual excellence awards 2005 ecourier parcel delivery in color alarm clock 18 october 2006 available at http www.thealarmclock.com euro archives 2006 10 ecourier parcel deli.html the winner ecourier evening standard 2007 http www.thisislondon.co.uk itsyourbusiness article 23383010 details the winner ecourier article.do ecourier.co.uk founder leaves to pursue new venture press release 2008 1 graham charlton 9 december 2009 . q & a tom allason on e commerce delivery startup shutl . econsultancy . retrieved 12 october 2012 . winners list 2009 deloitte 2009 britain s fastest growing private technology companies sunday times 2009 2 duedil company details duedil company details retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ecourier & oldid 699138881 categories companies based in londonlogistics companies of the united kingdomsites using openstreetmap dataprivately held companies of the united kingdomtechnology companies of the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 january 2016 at 14 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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