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China State Postal Bureau set to merge two businesses

Posted by | Aug 11, 2005 | |

The State Postal Bureau (China Post) is progressing with its scheme to merge its two sub-businesses, the express mail service (EMS) and China Post Logistics Co Ltd. “The merger is still in the preparatory stage, and we are considering how to restructure the businesses and the personnel involved,” a spokesman for China Post Logistics, who declined to be named, told China Daily yesterday. The planned merger was announced at the end of last year. The spokesman refused to comment on when the merger would be completed, but the Beijing Morning Post reported that substantial moves will be taken by the year’s end.

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Parcel2Go sees market for a parcels wholesaler

Posted by | Aug 11, 2005 | |

Parcel2Go, which wholesales parcel services over the web, plans an aggressive sales campaign to win traffic from carriers. And it’s keen to gain contracts from transport and distribution firms, provided they have at least ten parcels a day to ship from their depot.

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Depuy settles on Target

Posted by | Aug 11, 2005 | |

Depuy UK, a provider of orthopaedic equipment and part of Johnson & Johnson has made Target Express its sole carrier for UK deliveries. Target has been building its share of Depuy work over five years.

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MAT/TPN deal started with MT

Posted by | Aug 11, 2005 | |

The Pallet Network has linked with MAT Group to provide an international palletised distribution service. MAT’s Grays, Essex depot is also on board as a UK member of the network. The deal is the direct result of a report in Motor Transport in August 2004 of Brian Rosier’s purchase of MAT. “It’s taken a year to make it happen,” TPN chairman Richard Eldred says. Meanwhile, 15 members have bought shares in TPN from existing shareholders, typically in tranches of (pounds sterling)5,000 to (pounds sterling)10,000, Eldred says.

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MAT/TPN deal

Posted by | Aug 11, 2005 | |

The Pallet Network has linked with MAT Group to provide an international palletised distribution service. MAT’s Grays, Essex depot is also on board as a UK member of the network. The deal is the direct result of a report in Motor Transport in August 2004 of Brian Rosier’s purchase of MAT. “It’s taken a year to make it happen,” TPN chairman Richard Eldred says.

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Australia Post acquires PrintSoft

Posted by | Aug 10, 2005 | |

Australia Post today announced that it has acquired the global operations of PrintSoft, including PrintSoft Americas Inc., effective July 1, 2005. PrintSoft is a global leader in providing variable print software solutions for corporate, financial, utility, direct marketing and service bureau environments. This will be the first time that Australia Post has owned a business operating in the United States. In 2002, Australia Post and PrintSoft jointly developed Australia Post’s successful Post eLetter service, enabling clients to create letters, invoices, statements and postcards on their desktops, then securely submit them electronically to the Australia Post service bureau, where they are automatically aggregated, sorted and produced with bar codes for optimal production and postage saving.

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UK postal deregulation only six months away – but business awareness still low post watchdog tells leading charities

Posted by | Aug 10, 2005 | |

The UK’s postal service is being liberalised on 1st January 2006, but many businesses and organisations are still unaware of the opening-up of the market to competitors to Royal Mail early next year. Matt Ward, Deputy Director of Competition and Regulation at Postcomm, the postal industry regulator, outlined the implications for the deregulation of the postal industry to over 60 delegates from major charities and other membership-based organisations at a key industry conference. Delegates at the conference, held at on Friday, 10th June, discussed what customers should be doing to prepare themselves for an overhaul of the postal service, one of their most fundamental communication channels.

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Japan Post may buy Daimaru-affiliated delivery firm

Posted by | Aug 10, 2005 | |

Japan Post is in final talks to buy Asocia Corp, a delivery company affiliated with department store operator Daimaru Inc, in a bid to strengthen its services in areas where it competes with private-sector firms, the Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday. The national daily said the move would be Japan Post’s first acquisition of a company and that the public corporation is considering acquiring or forming a capital tie-up with more than one delivery company.

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