UPS has signed an agreement with Chinese cargo airline Yangtze River Express Airlines Co. that will expand its service network in China.
The deal provides regular flights to link UPS’s gateway in Shanghai with the major Chinese cities of Beijing, Qingdao, Xiamen and Guangzhou. UPS already operates daily flights from Shanghai to major destinations in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Read MoreRoyal Mail has announced new structures for its marketing and sales departments as part of a wider restructuring to simplify structures, reduce costs and bring together a new strong single commercial team. The business units of Media Markets and Business and Consumer Markets and Service Delivery will cease, replaced from 31 March by a new integrated Royal Mail business for the UK, headed by Managing Director Jerry Cope.
Read MoreIntelligent Print Solutions (IPS) has won the contract to handle the print for Royal Mail’s new interactive direct mail service for small businesses, DM Online.
Companies can use the online service to develop a piece of direct mail from conception to mailing.
The website enables customers to firstly assess what size of mailing they should undertake and gives options for purchasing or creating lists from scratch.
Read MoreJapan’s Postal Services Agency will set up an office to promote business tie-ups with private firms in a bid to boost revenue and improve customer services, agency officials said Friday.
The move is in line with ongoing reform in Japan’s postal services and the agency’s planned shift in April to a new public corporation.
Read MoreJapanese computer giant Fujitsu said Friday it has won a 650 million pound (1.06 billion dollar) contract to run and maintain the British post offices’ computer systems until 2010.
Under the contract, subsidiary Fujitsu Services will manage the computer system of the Royal Mail Group’s Post Office division, said Robert Pomeroy, a Fujitsu Ltd. spokesman.
Read MoreMore than 80 PR and comms jobs are likely to be axed as the Royal Mail Group undergoes a company-wide restructure.
The planned management buy-out of the group’s Communications Services unit has been shelved and the team is instead to be merged with the central corporate comms office and other PR staff across the group.
Royal Mail – currently losing more than pounds 1m per day – employs around 250 comms staff and the group has plans to axe up to one third of these jobs, according to a company source.
Read MoreMail, express and logistics company, TPG N.V, through its subsidiary TPG Post Holdings (Deutschland) GmbH in Germany, has today acquired 100% of the shares in Werbeagentur Fischer GmbH, a Bergen, Bavarian-based unaddressed mail distribution company.
The acquisition gives TPG Post access to a round-based delivery network covering 300,000 households in south-eastern Germany. Fischer is the market leader in its area and in 2002 the company delivered over 132 million leaflets.
Read Moreexel has won three contracts with Chunghwa Picture Tubes UK and a contract to handle the European logistics for American Tool Companies, and to provide global freight management services
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