Fastway couriers

25 years

Fastway Couriers is celebrating the milestone at its annual conference, this year held in the Northern Territory at Australia’s iconic Uluru.

The business was established in New Zealand in 1983 and within 12 months became the first transport company to enter the franchising arena. After launching into Australia in 1993 the company saw exponential growth.

Two years ago international courier and logistics company Aramex (which operates in more than 60 countries) bought Fastway Couriers, which today comprises more than 800 franchisees in Australia and showed in excess of 10 per cent growth over the last year.

Fastway Couriers is turning the traditional delivery model on its head with a range of new technology and processes including embracing the sharing economy to help support franchisees and customers.

“The transport and delivery industry has changed dramatically over the past 25 years,” says Fastway Couriers Australia CEO Peter Lipinski.

“The first Fastway van in Australia distributed in a world of pre-smartphone technology and internet, in a market made up predominantly of business-to-business customers. The rise of online shopping in the past five years has completely transformed our industry. The rapidly growing appetite of Australian consumers for online shopping and the expectation of roundthe-clock convenience has underpinned the development of a number of innovative new technologies,” he says.