Polish express market
Of the 51 companies active on the local market, 25 are recent arrivals which registered last year. Despite the increasingly crowded market, all the major operators saw their revenues grow from 20% (Servisco) to 50% (Masterlink).
The exception was Poczta Polska.
“It can compete in terms of price, and its monopoly is a big advantage, but otherwise it would be in trouble,” said Olga Kozierowska of Masterlink. She estimates that PP controls only 4% of the courier market, a figure that experts say is more or less accurate.
Hence the announcement by PP deputy president Andrzej Siniakiewicz that the company plans to take over a courier company by the end of the year. His comment last week came in the wake of a large-scale consolidation process on the market. In 2002, Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) became the sole owner of Servisco, the market leader with a 22% share, of the 99 million (z³. 425 million) a year market for next-day delivery service. DPWN is now planning to offer all its services under the DHL brand.
