Safeway (US) buys Tesco e-system
Safeway ditches the warehouse picking system in favour of Tescos store-based system for home delivery
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Finance Director resigns to join BT Wireless
Finance Director resigns to join BT Wireless
Read MoreHow to choose the best courier
CUT down on the cost of using couriers with the help of The Suns guide to
some of the best deals around. Survey of services & tarrifs of Amtrak, Parcelforce, Mailbox Express, Impatient Parcels, Securicor
La Poste is expected to become third partner in alliance
French state-owned postal service La Poste is not participating in the alliance formed by French banks Caisses d’Epargne and Caisse des Depots (CDC) – despite being one of the main distribution networks for the life insurance products of French insurer CNP, and one of its main shareholders. La Poste has an 18 per cent stake in CNP, as has Caisses d’Epargne, while CDC has a 37 per cent stake.
Read MoreCeska posta to raise prices for corporate clients by 5-9 pct
Ceska posta will as of July 1 increase the prices of its services for the corporate sector by 5-9 pct and will at the same time double the limit for parcels sent by the Express Mail Service (EMS) to 30 kilos
Read MoreEdinburgh pioneers end of postal service monopoly
CONSIGNIA’S monopoly on postal services is likely to be initially
broken in Edinburgh Groundbreaking changes could take place within months if PostComm, the mail regulator, accepts a licence application from Hays, the support services group.
Deutsche Post drops Greek bid
Deutsche Post, the German mail and logistics group, will not bid for a stake of up to 25 per cent in Hellenic Post Office that is being sold by the Greek government. Deutsche Post said the conditions attached to the sale, which also included a 50 per cent stake in Tachymetafores, Hellenic Post Office’s courier business, would have forced it to guarantee delivery of parcels anywhere in Greece
Read MoreCAT (Thailand) Privatization Moves Forward
The state-owned Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) said on Tuesday it expected to be turned into a limited company by December and listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in the third quarter of 2002
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