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New Zealand Post values courier unit at USD160m to USD180M

Posted by | Jan 21, 2005 | |

New Zealand Post today said it valued its express and logistics business, Express Couriers Ltd (ECL), at USD160 million to USD180 million.

The valuation comes as NZ Post and global freight firm DHL look to form a 50/50 joint venture, which they say will give better service to markets in Southeast Asia, China, Japan and India.

The valuation was based on preliminary analysis of the first six-months of ECL’s financial year, NZ Post said in a statement.

The final price within the valuation range for DHL’s investment in the joint venture would not be set until the end of the financial year.

However, NZ Post said it was “confident the agreed pricing structure represents full and fair value”.

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Poste Italiane to register positive 2004 results

Posted by | Jan 21, 2005 | |

Chairman of Italian state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane Enzo Cardi said on January 21, 2005 that the company would post positive results for 2004, in compliance with the forecasts.

Cardi added that the 2004 financial results will be examined by the board of directors soon and they will be quite flattering for the company. He declined to comment on the future privatisation of the company.

The announcement was made during the presentation of a stamp for the 100th aniversary of the Italian vehicle assistance company Automobile Club d’Italia.

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UK Royal Mail forced to retrain staff

Posted by | Jan 21, 2005 | |

Royal Mail is being forced to train its sales staff in European competition law after its regulator decided two of its promotion schemes were anti-competitive.

The mail organisation had offered discounts on mailings to some of its customers to tempt them to send more catalogues. Postcomm, the mail regulator, issued an enforcement order, requiring Royal Mail to refrain from departing from its published tariffs without notifying it.

Yesterday, Postcomm said Royal Mail had breached two of its licence conditions designed to help competition in the mail market. “We have extensive powers to deal with anti-competitive behaviour, which we will not hesitate to use in any future case,” said Nigel Stapleton, mail regulator chairman, who has pledged to be tough on the incumbent monopoly.

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Pan-Baltic arrangement needed for co-operation with Dutch mail company

Posted by | Jan 21, 2005 | |

The Dutch mail company TPG Post International is not interested in cooperation only with the Latvian state-owned postal company Latvijas Pasts therefore the latter will urge other Baltic mail services to join in, said Latvijas Pasts director general Gints Skodovs. “The Dutch mail company is not interested in Latvia alone, it is interested in the entire Baltic region,” said Skodovs, who had met with TPG Post International management this week during the Latvian president’s visit to the Netherlands. He told BNS it had been agreed that Latvijas Pasts will arrange a meeting in Riga with participation of Estonian and Lithuanian mail companies in the coming months. Skodovs said Latvijas Pasts already was cooperating with one of TPG Post International subsidiaries, TNT Latvia, but on a small scale and this cooperation should be expanded in future.

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Japan PM vows to mend fences with China and reform postal service

Posted by | Jan 21, 2005 | |

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi promised Friday to mend fences with China while renewing his controversial pledge to privatise Japan’s mammoth post office.

He vowed to split Japan’s vast postal service into four private entities despite the risk of dividing his ruling party which is concerned the move could offend Japan Post’s 270,000 workers and their families.

The government would begin enacting bills in April 2007 to divide the postal giant regardless of the million votes its workers were reputed to be capable of mobilising, he said.

The law change would allow for private carriers and financial institutions to compete in the huge markets presently dominated by Japan Post.

The post office manages some 355 trillion yen (3.5 trillion dollars) in savings and insurance funds, making it the world’s largest financial institution in terms of assets.

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Heated debate in French Parliament on Postal Reform Bill

Posted by | Jan 21, 2005 | |

The French national assembly was preparing to sit late into the night on Friday (January 22) so that MPs could finish their debate on the French government’s controversial bill to reform the nation’s postal services. Three days had been allocated for examination of the bill, which aims to incorporate into French law the 1997 and 2002 European Union directives on opening up the postal services market to competition. The debate has been held up, in particular, by the tabling of numerous amendments.

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New Operations Director for UK Post Office Ltd

Posted by | Jan 21, 2005 | |

Post Office Ltd today announced the appointment of Ric Francis as the company’s new Operations Director. Ric Francis has more than 25 years’ experience in the IT and operations sectors, and was most recently Chief Information Officer at Safeway Stores plc, where he was responsible for the company’s IT function.
His post as Operations Director for Post Office Ltd. is a newly-created role, combining IT and Network Support Services to optimise the company’s performance as the UK’s largest retail network. Mr Francis will sit on the Board of Post Office Ltd. and also the company’s Executive Committee.

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UK Royal Mail warned on poaching business

Posted by | Jan 21, 2005 | |

Postcomm, the postal regulator, has threatened to fine Royal Mail if it continues to use anti-competitive practices to keep rivals out of the UK postal market. Royal Mail yesterday agreed to rein in its marketing activities staff after Postcomm found discounts offered to magazine and catalogue companies had contravened competition rules. At the end of 2003, AMP, a rival postal company, complained that Royal Mail was trying to poach business customers through the use of special offers. AMP, which specialises in delivering magazines and catalogues, alleged that Royal Mail had offered discounts to companies in these sectors in an effort to drive it out of business. Following a long investigation, Postcomm said that Royal Mail had contravened two conditions in its licence designed to facilitate competition, as any discounts should be offered equally to all customers. Royal Mail said it had not realised at the time the discounts were anti-competitive, and that they were no longer on offer.

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