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DPD Lietuva parcels up to 36.6 % during the first quarter

Posted by | Apr 26, 2007 | |

DPD Lietuva transported 676 000 parcels during the first quarter of this year. A rise of 36.6 % ahead of the first quarter of 2006 when 495 000 parcels were transported.

„Our company experiences essential changes at the moment. In the end of the last year we have changed the brand of company, in this month we have finished to unify names of products and services that are provided for market. A stable growth in the increase in number of parcels confirms that customers understood the meaning of these changes and proves that we have earned trust of customers, in this case, businessmen, and the changes and improvements are valued“, – said director of sales and marketing of DPD Lietuva Gintaras Bingelis.

According to him, the stable growth is felt not only in the results of the quarter. Stability is reflected in annual sales of company DPD Lietuva, too.

Our company’s sales grew up almost equally around 40% during 2005 and 2006. The growth is determined by constant investments in development and modernization of business and improvement of services. This phenomena is also influenced by the stable growth of parcels delivery service market and it’s created competitive circumstances, clear distribution of market participants also allows to plan precisely our actions in order to grow further quite new market”, – said Gintaras Bingelis, DPD Lietuva sales and marketing director.

According to him, company plans similar growth, around 40%, this year too.

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Israel Post aims to sell financial services in Q3

Posted by | Apr 26, 2007 | |

As the privatization of Israel Post Company Ltd. gathers steam, the company plans to begin offering financial services, and market mutual, provident and pension funds at post offices. Israel Post also wants to begin selling non-life insurance, such as compulsory vehicle insurance and home insurance, by the third quarter of this year.
Israel Post predicts that the ministers of finance and communications will sign the permit allowing it to provide financial services by the end of June, so that it will be able to begin selling financial products during the fourth quarter. However, because Israel Post cannot provide financial advice for the sale of these products, and lacks a permit to provide it, it will only serve as a sales and clearing platform.

The tender for the sale of insurance at post offices was published a month ago, and the deadline to submit bids is today. Israel Post believes that the tender results will be published in May. Israel Post plans to begin selling insurance at only 50 branches of the Postal Bank. If the venture succeeds, Israel Post plans to sell home insurance, and much later, health insurance, including to foreign workers.

Insurance agents and companies will handle claims, and Israel Post will bear no responsibility. If and when the Postal Bank becomes a regular retail bank, it will have to stop selling non-life insurance, which is banned for banks.

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China Postal Group plans to set up insurance company

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

China Postal Group (CPG) plans to set up an insurance company which will be the country’s first insurer with sole investment from the postal sector, Wu Dingfu, chairman of China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), said yesterday.
Wu said the commission is currently dealing with the application submitted by the CPG for establishing an insurance company.

The company would be set up by the CPG and its plentiful subsidiaries across the country, and would provide insurance services involving relatively small amount of money as some Japanese insurers do, according to Wu.

About 20,000 insurance companies operating in Japan are mainly engaged in one-year life and medicare insurance and two-year property insurance, which usually set an upper limit to the compensation amount.

China’s postal sector, boasting 36,000 outlets nationwide, simply serves as the sales agent of insurance products for the moment, but was urged to explore further cooperation with the insurance sector.

Statistics show that nearly 14 percent of the country’s insurance agents came from the postal sector by the end of March.

The CPG has earlier made a step toward the financial reform in establishing the China Postal Savings Bank with total registered capital of 20 billion yuan (USD2.6 billion), which becomes the country’s fifth largest bank.

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Seurs’s sales increased to EUR 619 million in 2006

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

Seur’s sales rose to EUR 619 million in 2006, up nearly 8% on 2005. After a strong first four months of this year – EUR 200 million of revenues from January to the end of April – the company predicted 10% growth in 2007.

The international activity raised 7.6 pct and represented EUR 47 million sales. The company expects to increase the international sector based in the partnership with the French company Geopost.

The company, the main rival to national public postal operator Correos, employs 8,600 people and has more than 4,200 vehicles. Last year, it completed a record 46 million deliveries.

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Serco wins US Postal Service contract

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

Support services provider Serco Group PLC said it has been selected by the US Postal Service (USPS) Engineering organization to provide engineering, technical, project management and IT services under a 2-year contract, extendable by a further four two-year options.

The group, which has provided a range of engineering services to USPS for more than 20 years, said that the contract has a potential value of 260 mln usd over the full ten years.

It said this latest contract marks a broadening of the previous role to include management services, quality assurance services and testing of mail processing equipment.

The award follows a number of other North American wins for Serco in recent weeks, including the 200 mln usd Sea Enterprise, the 225 mln usd LOGCAP and 64 mln usd Spectech defence contracts.

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TNT lights fuse on tech asset management

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

TNT is working on an IT asset management pilot project in the UK which it hopes to roll out around the world.

TNT has started with desktop software asset management and by the end of the year plans to have charted the software on its servers as well, said Steve Fell, supplier and asset management group manager at TNT Express ICS.

He told silicon.com: “What asset management does is risk mitigation – it helps us to understand where our investment has gone.”

Speaking at the CA World user conference in Las Vegas, Fell said: “In order to manage what is a huge and complex environment we need to know where everything is.

“We want to get one view of our investments. The idea is we pilot in the UK and then deploy it across the rest of the organisation over two to three years – this is not going to happen overnight.”

Through its software and hardware asset management project the company wants to reduce risk – by knowing that it has enough software licences – and also reduce cost by not buying too many licences.

The company is using CA’s security, asset management, patch management, software delivery and deployment software as part of the project.

Eighty per cent of the project won’t be about the technology but about the processes in the organisation – such as making sure everybody involved with the purchasing process knows what they need to do to keep the tech asset management system up to date, he said.

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Angola: Postal Service to Invest USD 24 Mn in Its Modernisation

Posted by | Apr 25, 2007 | |

The Angolan National Post and Telecommunications Firm will invest USD 24 million until the year 2012, in the rehabilitation and modernisation of about 160 of its centres, throughout the country.

The information was given to Angop over the last weekend, in Dondo, northern Kwanza Norte Province, by the company’s administrator for the technical area, José Manuel de Almeida, who also informed that this investment is part of the institution’s steering plan, being implemented since 2004, aimed at improving their service to the public.

Under this plan, he said, nine provincial centres have already been rehabilitated and equipped, including the setting up of Internet services.

Two other centres are to be inaugurated, namely in Malanje and Huambo provinces.

José de Almeida revealed that the plan includes the signing of contracts with the Savings and Credit (BPC) bank, turned to the opening of counters to attend pensioners in areas that do not have banks and that depend on the postal and telecommunications service.

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