Investment strategies of postal service providers
Marten Büttner, independent consultant in the postal market, writes for World Mail Review.
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Level playing field indicator for addressed mail markets in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK
Level playing field indicator for addressed mail markets in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK
Read More2007 Xerox Corporation Services Mail & Distribution Market Forecast and Process Overview
2007 Xerox Corporation Services Mail & Distribution Market Forecast and Process Overview
Read MoreNew TPG Post rates from 1 January 2007 – stamp to cost 44 euro cents
TNT N.V. today announces that TPG Post will amend its rates on 1 January 2007. The rate for single-item domestic letters up to 20 grams will be increased to 44 euro cents. This will be the first rate increase for single-item mail in five and a half years. The rate for letters between 500 and 3.000 grams will be reduced to euro 2.64 on the same date. TPG Post intends not to increase the 44 euro cent rate again until 2010. The rate for letters has not risen since 2001. The newly announced rates (12.1% average increase) mean that the increase will remain within the inflation rate of 12.5% on aggregate since 2001. With a stamp price of 44 euro cents TPG Post will continue to offer the lowest price for a 24-hour service in Western Europe and the best price-quality ratio in Europe.
Read MoreThe man who wants to deliver your post – Nick Wells Interview
Nick Wells sold his marketing firm to the Dutch giant TPG for Pounds 20m. Now he is heading its bid to blow apart the Royal Mail’s 350-year monopoly.
By the time I am up the narrow staircase Nick Wells is already apologising. “I bet you’ve not seen many offices as unglamorous as this?” he grins, waving his hand around.
Well, probably not. Wells’s base for TNT Mail UK, the Dutch-owned business mail start-up that is taking on Royal Mail, is a small two-storey warehouse off a suburban road in outer Maidenhead.
The reception area downstairs fits two at a pinch. Wells’s cardboard-walled office, overlooked by the bedrooms of the semi- detached houses opposite, might fit four. Even the three named directors’ parking slots in the tiny car park outside seem more like desperate pragmatism than any folly of hubris.
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