UPS announces a market share increase next year in Poland

At the beginning of 2005, the American giant United Parcel Service bought the Polish courier company Stolica. UPS and Stolica are going to present a new range of services in January 2006. The consolidated company will deliver low-cost shipments on a large scale, but is also going to offer special logistic services to very demanding clients, said Krzysztof Zdziarski, UPS’s general director in Poland. According to Zdziarski the company will be able to boost its income on the international and also the domestic market, which has been developing really quickly so far. The brand Stolica is going to be withdrawn from the market and will be replaced by UPS, however the process will be gradual. UPS’s competitors are sceptical about the American company’s success on the Polish market. Although Poland is still very attractive for courier and logistic companies, they claim that their position on the market, which they have been building for years, is rather stable.