Year: 2005

Palletline strengthens management team

Posted by | Jun 10, 2005 | |

Palletline has strengthened its management team with three key appointments:
Colin Enticott is promoted into a new role as general manager operations. Enticott has been with Palletline for five years.
Clive Brooks steps up to another new role as national service development manager. Brooks has previous general management experience at Europa, a Palletline member, and almost twenty years’ experience of depot operations.
Mark Warwick moves from regional service development manager to general manager London.

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Irish An Post seeks partner for new move to banking

Posted by | Jun 10, 2005 | |

An Post has written to 28 financial institutions in the first stage of a process which could see the post office network restructured as a fully-fledged bank by sometime next year.

The postal company is hoping to leverage off its network of 1500 post offices and its reputation as a safe and reputable company, in order to take a slice of the most profitable banking market in Europe.

An Post wrote to five indigenous and 23 foreign banks earlier this week asking them to submit initial proposals within 10 weeks. Based on these submissions, the list of possible partners will be reduced to less than 10. Detailed discussion will then take place with the short-listed banks and the final partner is expected to be chosen by the end of the year.

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Investment plan to modernize French Post

Posted by | Jun 9, 2005 | |

On June 2nd the Board of Directors of the French Post approved an investment plan of 770m euros to be spent over the 2005 to 2007 period to help modernize the network of Post Offices. Of the total amount 150m will be devoted to a training program and another 150m devoted to implementation of an IT system that would allow the Post to adopt new trends and launch new products. The balance will be devoted to renovations that will reduce queuing time in post offcies. Press Release available in French.

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UK PPA warns lifting of postal controls will hit B2B sector

Posted by | Jun 9, 2005 | |

Business-to-business magazines that depend on doorstep distribution could suffer under plans to end price controls on press postage, the Periodical Publishers’ Association (PPA) has warned. The current Presstream system, which forces Royal Mail to keep prices low for subscription-based magazines, will be unregulated from April 2006 under proposals from the postal services regulator, Postcomm. Postcomm said it believed publishers would be protected from soaring prices because there was sufficient competition in the market to keep charges low.

But Ian Locks, PPA chief executive, said: “The competitive playing field for the Presstream service is set within the context of the postal delivery of magazines.

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CCI queries Irish An Post over 12c price move

Posted by | Jun 9, 2005 | |

Businesses are digging in their heels against another expected rise in postage prices, saying it would be the death knell for An Post.

The Chambers of Commerce of Ireland (CCI) has urged the Communications Regulator to reject outright the current request by An Post to increase the price of a stamp from 48c to 60c.

It warned that businesses will turn to competitors when the sector opens up early next year if prices are hiked any further. “The company is undoubtedly under pressure,” said Sean Murphy, CCI Head of Research and Public Affairs.

“It is continuously failing to meet next day delivery targets set by the regulator; mail volumes are falling, previous price increases have failed to yield adequate revenue returns, and the European postal market liberalisation is well under way and due to intensify,” he said.

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Uzbekistan to carry out 30mln dollars postal modernisation

Posted by | Jun 9, 2005 | |

Uzbekistan will carry out a program to modernise its postal services network by 2011 at a cost of about 30 million dollars, introducing and developing new services based on information and communications technologies, a source at the country’s Communications and IT Agency told Interfax.

The program will involve the introduction of new types of services at the automated nodes and divisions of national postal services operator Uzbekiston Pochtasy, which is controlled by the agency.

There are also plans to replace the postal company’s automobile fleet and install video surveillance and electronic control systems at regional post offices.

In the first phase, from 2005 to 2007, the country will build a telecommunications system to connect 14 regional branches and one specialised branch, 189 district and city postal services centers, and 622 urban and rural post offices.

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TNT Express acquires Slovenian domestic express distribution company ‘Door-to-Door’

Posted by | Jun 9, 2005 | |

TNT Express today announced that it has acquired ‘Door-to-Door’, Slovenia’s leading domestic transport company. While TNT has operated in Slovenia through a local agent since 1994, the acquisition of what is the company’s strongest partner in the country now confirms TNT’s position as the leading express delivery company in Eastern Europe.
Jack Hereijgers, General Manager East European Associates, TNT Express commented: “We are extremely pleased about this acquisition as ‘Door-to-Door’ is a respected and professional leader in domestic express distribution with similar values to TNT. It will provide us with a solid foundation from which to develop and grow our domestic and international businesses.”

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US Postal Service (USPS) gaining momentum in the B2C parcel market

Posted by | Jun 9, 2005 | |

The USPS often is overlooked as a competitive threat to UPS, but with 22% of the domestic ground package market, we believe it’s a force to be watched, especially given that the USPS is growing its parcel volumes once again, after a few years of decline. We should remember that the USPS is the low-price leader in many markets and so its improved service is putting pressure on UPS’s pricing in those lanes in which it competes, namely light-weight B2C. We believe the re-energized USPS management is attempting to find new ways to bemore efficient and to this end we believe it will be more aggressive in re-pricing its $1billion annual contract with FDX for providing the air line-haul for the USPS’s Priority Mail and Express Mail shipments. While we see potential margin pressure for FDX, the contract doesn’t expire until 2008 and thus we don’t see any near-term disappointment.

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