Belgian De Post/La Poste searches partners for PostPunten expansion
Belgian postal services company De Post/La Poste is in search for partners for an expansion of its sales counters PostPunten in 2006, a local information news website reported on November 8, 2005.
The PostPunten’s expansion depends on the evaluation of the results of the 50 experimental PostPunten in December 2005. The experimental PostPunten are based in the stores of Delhaize, in retail units of news periodicals distributor Press Shop and in the offices of Belgian bank Fortis.
The evaluation of the PostPunten, carried out in May 2005, was positive, the De Post/La Poste spokesman Piet Van Speybroeck said.
The company plans to increase the number of its sales counters to 130 by the end of 2006.
De Post/La Poste intends to concentrate its activities in the provinces of Antwerp, Flemish and Walloon Brabant and in the province of Namur.
Belgian professional organisation of self-employed Unizo will advise the owners of convenience shops, who are interested in cooperation with De Post/La Poste.
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