Asendia UK Ltd celebrates the New Year with a legal merger

The final stage of the UK merger between postal giants La Poste and Swiss Post was completed on 1st January 2014. The New Year sees the culmination of the merger, legally bringing together their UK operations under the banner Asendia UK Ltd. Asendia UK Ltd will comprise: La Poste UK Ltd (including Pitney Bowes IMS UK Ltd, acquired in June 2013), Swiss Post International (UK) Ltd and Bedfordshire-based BTB Mailflight Ltd.

The UK Head Office is located at Heathrow within the newly extended and upgraded Swiss Post International facilities. Millions of mail items are handled monthly for distribution across the globe. Mailing, printing and goods fulfilment warehouses will remain at Bedford and Southampton, with Bedford also providing a response centre, digital print and the hybrid mail service Maileva.

The CEO of Asendia UK, Frédéric Petton, said: “Everyone across the business has been working extremely hard over the past sixteen months towards the ‘unifying’ of three diverse entities into one cohesive business.  I am happy to say that so far the merger is proving to be a successful venture, and has been achieved with the minimum disruption to customers, suppliers and staff.”

Sales and Marketing Director, Lloyd Webber, added: “We have combined our expertise into a cohesive and streamlined business model, enabling our customer to access a wider range of services. With an increased customer focus in 2014 customers will discover a new way of working with our end-to-end product range providing a complete solution for their marketing, goods, press and business mail fulfilment – straight to the letterbox, anywhere in the world.”