Belgian media company Rossel plans to develop own distribution network for its magazines and promotional items, it was reported on April 13, 2004. Currently the distribution of Rossel magazines is carried out by Belgian distribution company AMP and Belgian postal services company De Post/La Poste.
Read MoreAn Post has suffered a significant setback with a decision on its controversial stamp price increase application not now expected for several months. The regulator, ComReg, has requested further information from An Post to support the application it submitted 11 months ago. An Post will shortly report a small surplus but the delay in granting a price increase for stamps could have financial repercussions. Last May, when the application was submitted, An Post chief executive Donal Curtin said the company believed it was entitled to a “realistic” price increase. While never disclosed publicly, it is understood the company sought an increase of 14.5 per cent. This would push up the price of a stamp from 48 to 55 cent.
Read MoreDHL Global Mail France and recently acquired French mail service provider Koba, have launched Mailingfactory in France it was reported on April 18, 2005. Mailingfactory is a multimedia application for designing mailing campaigns. Users with Internet access can use this application to quickly, flexibly and efficiently design direct marketing campaigns.
Mailingfactory has already 25,000 clients in Germany, mainly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Read MoreDeutsche Post, the German postal service operator, has reached an out-of-court settlement with smaller rivals in a dispute relating to certain sectors of the market for the delivery of letters. The company is said to have promised to put forward a contract for approval by April 25 at the latest. A spokesman for Deutsche Post has confirmed that the agreement relates to postal service operators Deniz, Pin AG and DirektExpress.
Read MoreGerman postal company Deutsche Post AG has fully given up all future plans to buy Austrian competitor Oesterreichische Post AG, Deutsche Post CEO Klaus Zumwinkel said on April 17, 2005. The decision was the result of differences in political developments, Zumwinkel added. Austria had initially planned to sell Austrian Post to a strategic partner through privatisation. Last week finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser said it had been decided to sell the state’s minority holding in Post over the stock exchange in the spring of 2006.
Read MoreUS printing company RR Donnelley said Monday it has agreed to buy Britain’s privately owned Astron Group in a cash deal worth about USD 990 million (EUR 760 million). RR Donnelley, the largest printing company in North America, said the acquisition of Astron, a business outsourcing company that handles British passport applications, will add “slightly” to its earnings within a year of the transaction. Donnelley Chief Executive Mark A Angelson said that the purchase will almost double the Chicago-based company’s contract printing business and will increase operations in Europe and Asia.
Read MoreNorway Post and TNT N.V. have signed a co-operation agreement outlining the two parties’ continued close cooperation. The cooperation between Norway Post and TNT is based on an agreement both companies entered into in May 2004 to jointly provide international express products to Norwegian customers. The companies now announce their ambition to extend their cooperation to include other product areas. Mr. Kaare Frydenberg, CEO of Norway Post, and Mr. Peter Bakker, CEO of TNT, signed the Co-operation Agreement today in the Netherlands. This includes an agreement to immediately set up a task force to explore potential areas of mutually beneficial co-operation in mail, mail related services, express and logistics services.
Read MoreThe Polish unit of Dutch express mail courier TNT Express opened an office in Bielsko-Biala, southeastern Poland, Robert Mianowski, Director General of TNT Express Poland, said on April 15, 2005.
Besides clients from Bielsko-Biala, the office will service clients from the entire Podbeskidzie region, southeastern Poland. The company counts on attracting as clients companies from the automotive sector, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises.
The opening of the new office is in line with TNT Express Poland’s growth strategy adopted in early 2005, Mianowski added.
Before the opening of the company’s Bielsko-Biala office, the clients of TNT Express Poland were serviced at the office in Katowice, southern Poland.
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