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Evri now works with 20,000 drivers – all of whom are self-employed – and immediately employs nearly 7,seven hundred people at its head places of work and warehouses – about 400 extra year-on-year. Evri has invested £40m in its operations, together with taking over 6,500 more individuals, as it plans to double in dimension over the following 5 years after opening a brand new distribution hub in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Evri stated it faced higher costs on power, gasoline and wages in addition to ‘resource shortages’ – understood to mean a scarcity of drivers. Lok ‘n Store Group’s pretax profit …