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Postal privatization bills pass Japan’s lower house

Posted by | Oct 11, 2005 | |

Japan’s lower house passed a set of controversial postal privatization bills Tuesday, giving a stamp of approval to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s economic reforms. The government resubmitted the bills to privatize Japan Post after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) won a landslide victory at the September 11 general election. Koizumi’s key reform project passed the lower house in a plenary session by 338 to 138 votes, an expected result with the ruling coalition of LDP and the New Komeito party holding more than two-thirds of the seats in the lower house. The upper house is expected to approve the legislation Friday.

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CBA a big loser in Australia Post switch

Posted by | Oct 11, 2005 | |

Australia Post’s move to obtain a special banking licence will result in Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) losing income. In an effort to reduce the transaction costs on bills paid through its Post BillPay service, Australia Post hopes to obtain a special banking licence and commence processing credit card and debit transactions by early 2006.

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PalletForce grows by 25%

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

PalletForce plc reported a 25% increase in turnover to (pounds sterling)5.03m for the year ended August 31, 2005, compared with (pounds sterling)4.02m in 2004. The Lichfield-based network’s pre-tax profit rose 7.0% to (pounds sterling)1.25m for the year, compared with (pounds sterling)1.17m in 2004. The directors’ report said: “During the year the company once again made ground within the pallet network market. Members delivered in excess of 1.2 million pallets during the course of the year with an average of nearly 5,000 pallets per night.” It said eight members joined the network during the year and it had 73 members at the year end. An internal share trading scheme was established.

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Overseas firms target U.S. market

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

As many U.S. companies expand their marketing presence in China, other global companies are targeting the U.S. with new marketing efforts.

Two notable companies that are pumping up their marketing in the U.S. are DHL International, a German-based shipping company owned by Deutsche Post World Net, and BT, a London-based telecommunications company.

DHL and BT last month launched new ad campaigns in the U.S., and their strategies demonstrate the ways in which global marketers approach the unique challenges of reaching fragmented U.S. audiences.

“As companies come to the U.S., the major challenge is about brand management,” said Bill Engler, senior VP-strategy at brand consultancy BrandLogic. “It really gets down to consistency and flexibility, and creating a brand guidance system that allows for both.”

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UPS announces a market share increase next year in Poland

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

At the beginning of 2005, the American giant United Parcel Service bought the Polish courier company Stolica. UPS and Stolica are going to present a new range of services in January 2006. The consolidated company will deliver low-cost shipments on a large scale, but is also going to offer special logistic services to very demanding clients, said Krzysztof Zdziarski, UPS’s general director in Poland. According to Zdziarski the company will be able to boost its income on the international and also the domestic market, which has been developing really quickly so far.

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GeoPost lips zipped as Begle quits

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

French parcels carrier GeoPost was tight-lipped at the weekend about the surprise departure of Claude Begle, chief executive of Geopost International Management and Development, for arch rival DHL Express. Geopost, a subsidiary of French postal organisation La Poste, declined to say when and why he had left the company. Journalists were referred to the announcement made by DHL last Monday concerning Mr Begle’s appointment as chief operating officer for DHL Express Germany and DHL Express Central Europe. The communications manager for GeoPost, Marion Egal, would say only that it was Mr Begle who had chosen to leave the company and not the company which had decided to dispense with his services. She added that the company’s management team would be reorganised as a result of the departure and an announcement regarding this would be made ‘a bit later’. ‘Our feeling here is that GeoPost management are handling the situation as it is,’ she said, ‘International development is going on.’

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Royal Mail fights to keep public onside

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

Royal Mail tonight launches its first advertising campaign in 18 months in a bid to boost its brand credentials before the market is opened up to competition next year. The company, which handles 83 million items a day for 27 million UK addresses, hopes the campaign will boost its brand credentials and link Royal Mail to the “magic of mail” as the company’s monopoly on home delivery is broken in January. “Royal Mail has been preparing itself for the introduction of full competition for some time. Naturally we want to cement our position as market leader by having advertising that communicates the impressive service we offer the UK each and every day,” said Tom Hings, the head of brand and advertising at Royal Mail.

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UK Postcomm calls for more innovation to create a viable rural Post Office network

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

The rural Post Office network should be planned using more innovative methods of service provisions such as mobile post offices and partnerships with other organisations or communities. “Some of the 8,000 rural branches throughout the UK are in busy market towns, but others may serve only five customers a week,” Nigel Stapleton, chairman of Postcomm said. “There is no single model for all these situations and Post Office Ltd needs to be flexible to sustain access to postal services – perhaps a travelling Post Office – in the smaller and more remote communities.” Post Office Ltd is due to report to the government at the end of 2005 on pilot schemes for more flexible provision of Post Office services in rural areas. Postcomm recommends that the rural network should be planned to reflect the local population and small business distribution to ensure access to cash and to help village stores and other rural businesses to survive.

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