Nightspeed award
For the sixth year in a row Tipton-based Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express has won the Secure Parcel Carrier accreditation awarded by the Institute of Transport Management
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Italy ICI payments via Poste Italiane website increase
Payments of the municipal property tax ICI carried out via the website of Italy’s state-owned postal services company Poste Italiane registered a considerable increase, totalling 75,000 in the first half of 2005. In the year 2004, on-line ICI payments totalled 57,000.
Read MoreUK Royal Mail beats delivery targets
Royal Mail produced its best performance in a decade during the first quarter of the year with more than nine out of 10 first and second class letters arriving on time, according to independent research results published yesterday.
The national postal operator delivered 93.4 per cent of first class letters the day after posting, beating its target of 93 per cent. Second class mail beat its target level of 98.5 per cent delivered within three working days with a 98.6 per cent performance. Although the figures did not cover all 14 of the performance goals set by Postcomm, the regulator, they reflect service levels for 90 per cent of Royal Mail’s volumes. Adam Crozier, Royal Mail’s chief executive, said: “Royal Mail is determined to do even better than the record quality of service our postmen and women are delivering. Independent research is showing our performance running at a world-class level but Royal Mail wants to be demonstrably the very best and most trusted postal service in the world.”
BOWE Bell + Howell acquires BCC Software Inc
BOWE Bell + Howell, a leading provider of high-performance automated mailing solutions, announced today that it has acquired BCC Software Inc., a premier developer of mailing software. Founded in 1978, BCC Software is a recognized leader in the postal software market. BCC Software and BOWE Bell + Howell offer complementary products, and the acquisition will result in synergies that are certain to benefit existing and prospective customers. BOWE Bell + Howell will continue to operate BCC Software as an independent company under the management of its founder, President and CEO K. Jon Runstrom. The company will maintain its current staff and continue to be headquartered in Rochester, NY. BCC will become part of the Postal and Sorting Products Group of BOWE Bell + Howell.
Read MoreNetherlands cuts TNT stake to 10 percent
The Dutch State has cut its stake in mail and logistics company TNT by almost half to about 10 percent, which it plans to keep until the postal market in the Netherlands is fully liberalised. The finance ministry said it sold 43.4 million shares to ABN AMRO and Citigroup raising about 900 million euros (USD1.1 billion). Dealers said the banks were placing the shares in a range of 20.80 to 20.95 euros each. The deal is equivalent to about 30 days’ trading volume. TNT did not participate in the stake sale, a company spokeswoman said. In September, when the government last sold TNT shares to cut its stake to 19 percent, the company had bought back around a third of the shares.
Read MoreUK Business Post AGM trading update
At the AGM today of Business Post, the UK’s leading independent express delivery company, the Chairman, Peter Kane, will state: “In the first quarter of the financial year, to 30 June 2005, revenues in Parcel Services were 9% ahead of last year, benefiting from continued strong growth in HomeServe and the higher rates of growth in the International market for cross-border shipments. Revenues in Express were ahead of last year but affected by market conditions which continue to be challenging. Accordingly, a number of initiatives have been undertaken to reduce costs. Within Specialist Distribution Services, revenue growth was 15% and profit margins continued to improve within UK Pallets. UK Mail made further progress, trading ahead of expectations, increasing its market share to around 1.25%, and successfully launching its service for unsorted mail.
Read MoreAJG wins the Lynx deal for SW Scotland
AJG Parcels, which specialises in the Scottish Highlands and islands, is now representing Lynx Express in the Argyll and Campbeltown area. The company is subcontracted by “all but one or two” of the national parcel groups, said project manager James Barkley.
Read MoreUK Regulator rebuffs Royal Mail attacks
The postal services regulator has rebuffed Royal Mail’s attacks on its proposed price controls, dismissing the company’s warning it would be sent into a spiral of decline as “only to be expected”. Sarah Chambers, the chief executive of Postcomm, told a London conference the regulator did not intend to relax its proposals simply because of the Royal Mail’s intense lobbying. Ms Chambers said the watch-dog was prepared to listen to new evidence during the consultation on the proposals, which are due to be finalised in November. But she added that Postcomm’s financial analysis of Royal Mail was based on “evidence we’ve extracted – and it does feel like extraction sometimes – from Royal Mail”.
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