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Stralfors seals pounds 8m purchase of DPS

Posted by | Nov 24, 2005 | |

Transactional printer Stralfors UK has bought DPS Direct Mail in a pounds 8m deal, creating a pounds 28m turnover UK firm.

‘We’ve been looking for a potential acquisition in the UK for a number of years,’ said Stralfors UK managing director Mike Murphy, who will become group managing director. ‘We’ve taken our time to find the perfect fit.’

The deal was signed last Tuesday (15 November), 13 months after Stralfors made initial contact.

DPS in Orpington, Kent will continue to trade under its name but it will be rebranded at some point in the future.

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TNT Bulgarian unit expects 2006 turnover to rise more than 20%

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

TNT Bulgaria expects its 2006 turnover to rise by more than 20%, exceeding the growth forecast for the current year partly due to expansion of its customer base, a senior TNT Express official said on Wednesday. TNT Bulgaria is to reach a turnover of about 6.0 million euro (USD7.1 million) this year, up 20% from 2004, TNT Express general manager for Eastern Europe, Mike Ogle, told SeeNews in an interview. “Our growth projections [for 2006] are in the excess of 20%,” he said. “We will achieve [the growth] through a combination of two things, we will provide good services to our existing customers, which means they will continue to trade with us, and we will continue to attract new accounts from our competition, and to a certain degree the markets are growing generically anyway,” Ogle added.

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Tory blow to Royal Mail shares plan

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Royal Mail’s hopes of giving shares to its employees looked doomed last night after the Conservatives told The Times that they had misgivings over backing the necessary legislation. If the Tories oppose the plans, defeat in the House of Commons appears inevitable because of the huge opposition to the plan from Labour backbenchers. Some 186 Labour MPs have signed an early-day motion opposing any issuance of shares, out of a total of 198 signatures against. Nick Brown, the former minister and ally of the Chancellor, is the latest big name to join the opposition. The number backing the motion is more than half of the parliamentary party and is the majority of those Labour MPs eligible to sign, given that members of the Government and their parliamentary aides are not free to back such motions.

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Postal strike averted in Ireland as union accepts labor court’s ruling

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

A threatened strike in Ireland’s national postal service was averted Wednesday when the major labor union accepted a compromise ruling from the Irish Labour Court. The 10-page ruling called for directors of An Post to give workers a previously agreed 5 percent raise immediately and a further 2.5 percent raise next May. The Communication Workers Union, which represents about 8,500 workers at An Post, said they would accept the proposal and cancel their previous plan to strike before Christmas.

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Deutsche Post to close down further post offices

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post has announced that it will restructure its network of outlets by closing up to 200 of its own post offices and by converting them into postal agencies based at retail outlets. Management highlights that the restructuring will not entail redundancies.

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UK Royal Mail Letters Managing Director appointed

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Ian Griffiths, Group Managing Director of GKN Automotive, has been appointed Managing Director of Royal Mail Letters, it was announced today. Reporting to Adam Crozier, Royal Mail’s Group Chief Executive, Mr Griffiths will have day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of Royal Mail’s annual postbag of more than 20 billion letters. Mr Griffiths will be joining the board of Royal Mail Holdings plc, chaired by Allan Leighton, and he will also sit on the company’s Management Board, which is chaired by Mr Crozier. He is expected to take up the appointment early next year.

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UPS survey finds shipping critical to online buying experience

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Internet shoppers say the successful delivery of goods purchased online is critical to their overall satisfaction and loyalty to online retailers, according to a new survey commissioned by UPS.
The survey, conducted for UPS by the national opinion research firm Synovate, found online consumers were overwhelming in their demand for high-quality delivery services. Among the findings:

Online consumers’ top three delivery priorities, in order, are reliability, convenience and speed of shipping.
80 percent of online shoppers said a positive delivery experience would cause them to likely purchase from that online retailer again.
69 percent of the respondents said they were more likely to patronize those online retailers that offered package tracking, rates and service selection online.

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