Stronger, faster, better: how we are tripling the size of our London bike zone
First up, what is the bike zone? It’s the designated area in London where your Gophr deliveries are eligible to be booked on push bikes or cargo bikes. And triple the size. Really? Yep 3x. Made…
Gophr x Hofy: Helping remote workers feel right at home
WFH went from being a hard-won perk to being standard practice overnight. But if people can't come to the office, you need to take the office to them. That's a lot of bulk to deliver, and that's…
Same Day Delivery comes in many different ‘flavours’
Same day delivery was once associated with bouquets of flowers, legal documents and forgotten keys. Fast forward a lockdown or three, with people demanding greater convenience, same day is fast…
How to run a same day delivery pilot
Same-day delivery is a simple concept that’s difficult to get right in practice. Getting it right requires a well-planned pilot programme; with a clearly defined objective, and all the…
Hub to Home: Bundled or unbundled?
There’s a maxim in delivery that the ‘last mile’ is the most difficult and expensive of all the miles. Estimates put it at 40 - 50% of the total fulfilment cost, and that’s before you factor in the…
Supporting our people and the planet
We think of sustainability as being two-fold; people and planet. We’ve always worked very hard at making sure we go further than others in our sector on the people side, making sure we do better by…
Some big news… Series A funding is done
Reaching Series A funding has been a long time coming for us and we've spent the last 5-6 years really trying to understand every inch of the industry, and getting ourselves in position to be really…
Nothing says ‘I love you’ like last minute deliveries
GET IN TOUCH In the olden normal times, up to 1/3 of us left Valentine’s Day to the last minute, because nothing says ‘I love you’ more than a panic buy, right? Old habits die hard and we’re…
