Satisfaction at Post Denmark with Danish-swedish merger

With the publication of the plans for a merger between Post Danmark A/S and Posten AB, a long-felt desire for an international business partner is now one decisive step closer to being fulfilled.
– The European postal market is undergoing a violent process of change in these years of radical EU liberalisation. As a result, the future of small and medium-sized national postal companies will at best be highly uncertain. For Post Danmark, the development means that we will need larger volumes and a much wider range of services for our customers than we are capable of developing based on the Danish home market alone. It is therefore vital for Post Danmark to find an international business partner, and the merger with the Swedes was quite naturally at the top of our wish list, Fritz Schur, Chairman of Post Danmark, says.
In future, Fritz Schur will take up the post of chairman of the merged company.
Post Danmark points out that the main advantages to the Danish company and its cus-tomers are in the field of information logistics, in which Posten AB has a very wide range of services provided by the subsidiary Strålfors, which is already active in several European countries. In addition, being part of the new company Post Danmark will greatly enhance its position within the company’s most significant growth areas – cargo and parcels.
– In the coming years we will see a trend towards further intensification of the current consolidation wave in postal and logistics areas, and with a merger between Post Danmark and Posten Sverige we are well equipped to meet that challenge, Fritz Schur says.
Post Danmark’s CEO Helge Israelsen looks forward to the new opportunities that the merger will generate:
It is my expectation that the merger will benefit our customers. At the same time, I am/we are very satisfied that this will provide us with a stronger foundation for retaining our position as the preferred postal company of all citizens and companies in this country. Post Danmark will still have a large number of tasks to perform for the Danish society, tasks that we take pride in performing. The day’s announcement does not change the rules and requirements we have to meet, and it will still be entirely up to us in Denmark to decide how to organise our postal service in the future. The Danish society differs from the Swedish society in having different challenges and requirements relating to postal services and we will retain our focus on meeting these challenges. A fact that a coming merger will not change. The merger, on the other hand, will give us the strength to continue to develop the company and our services to the Danish society, CEO Helge Israelsen says.