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La Poste air / rail transport
Jean-Paul Bailly, chief executive of La Poste, at Lille on 10 October 2004 said that they were rethinking the whole use of night flights and transport pollution. Currently the TGV handles fifteen per cent of their domestic transport and they expected this to increase in the coming years
Read MoreDPD number 3 in Europe
Jean-Paul Bailly said that DPD were currently number three in Europe but were coming up fast on TNT. I assume he meant in sales.
He also added that basically the DPD network was running at plus thirteen per cent 2003 against 2002 and the first quarter of 2004 was plus eleven per cent. He commented that the UK was doing particularly well.
Are the benefits of liberalisation at stake in the European postal market
Both rumours and news about mergers and acquisitions in the European postal market are increasing to the point where it becomes legitimate to ask oneself:
Where this potential concentration process might lead to? As a matter of fact, several large operators are presently trying to buy shares of, or even entire operators, so as to prepare themselves for the total liberalisation of the market. This evolution may well jeopardize the benefits which could be expected from the liberalisation process in Europe, as market entry barriers grow and competition decreases.
UK Royal Mail Staff may be offered shares
Royal Mail wants to offer shares to its employees as part of a drive to broaden the organisation’s ownership in a move that has raised union fears about a potential sell-off.
Allan Leighton, the chairman, said yesterday that he wants to change Royal Mail’s ownership in the next stage of the development of the group, which has just moved into profit. Although he emphasised that a new structure would be dominated by employee ownership, he also gave warning that the famous Warwick agreement between unions and Labour, which includes a pledge that Royal Mail would remain in public ownership, is not binding on the company.
In an interview with The Times he said: “I am determined to get more ownership in some way or form into the hands of our people. I want a broader ownership but that must be dominated by the employees.”
Read MoreChristian Salvesen PLC – Trading Statement for 6 Months to September 2004
Christian Salvesen PLC – Trading Statement for 6 Months to September 2004
Read MoreDPD in Lithuania and Poland
GeoPost acquired the Lithuanian high-capacity CEP service provider Baltic Logistic System on 1 September. The latter operates under the DPD/Bizpak brand. The partnership will assume a concrete form this month with the opening of a DPD distribution centre equipped with cutting edge technology in Vilnius. The facility – the first semi-automatic depot in the Baltic states – enables DPD and GeoPost to significantly raise efficiency, service quality in parcel handling and distribution.
Read MoreDeutsche Post Global Mail to become DHL Global Mail
Deutsche Post, the German postal service operator, is planning to change the name of its international business with the delivery of letters. Until now, this area of the company’s business has operated under the name ‘Deutsche Post Global Mail’; in future, however, this will change to ‘DHL Global Mail’. The reason for the company’s decision is that the DHL brand is very well-known in international business, while an increasing number of competitors are using the word ‘Post’ in their brand name. Deutsche Post does not expect to be able to protect the word ‘Post’ as a brand.
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