La Poste announces online marketing venture

Le Figaro (Paris): “French post office La Poste is to announced today its third investment in an Internet start-up company. The young company, e-mail Vision, is a specialist in on-line marketing. The amount of the capital increase carried out by Sofipost has not been revealed but has been qualified as an ‘important investment’. E-mail Vision has already raised 13m euros from two previous capital increases. This operation follows the acquisition of e-lico, a company specialised in e-logistics, by Chronopost. For several months now, La Poste chairman Martin Vial has affirmed his intention of making the group an important player in all types of mail distribution.” (Source: Financial Times)

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