Year: 2005

Palletforce targets Scottish market

Posted by | Apr 1, 2005 | |

PalletFORCE is planning to shake up the Scottish pallet distribution market with a substantial increase in its presence across the country, including a new depot in Glasgow and two well-known new members. Existing member Wm Armstrong is opening a new depot near Glasgow and has been joined in the network by two new members Gordon Leslie Distribution, based near Paisley, and JBT, located in Aberdeen and Inverness, with additional depots on the Shetland and Orkney islands. Coverage in Scotland is completed by one of PalletFORCE’s founder members Glenhire Express, based in Fife.

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Post offices target key role in financial services delivery

Posted by | Apr 1, 2005 | |

Given postal service operators’ extensive branch networks, the provision of financial services is a natural choice for those operators seeking to diversify their revenue streams and fulfil government obligations to provide universal banking services. New research from VRL Publishing* reviews the evolving role played by post offices in the distribution of retail financial services and the opportunities and threats posed to traditional bank providers.

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Strength in numbers is major plank in Pallet Systems success

Posted by | Mar 31, 2005 | |

Membership of one of Europe’s fastest-growing pallet freight systems has been the spur for major growth at a Black Country business.

Pallet Systems has opened an 8,000 sq ft operations centre in Wednesbury and a head office at Darlaston’s Metro House.

For the past two years the company has been a member of Palletways, a UK-based network based at a 350,000 sq ft hub in Lichfield and a membership of around 100logistics organisations. By joining forces the companies are able to bring together small volume loads to make more economic use of a combined transport fleet of vans and lorries.

Pallet Systems considers itself one of Palletways’ success stories and has continued to go from strength to strength.

In addition to new premises, it has also recently appointed two new business managers, a new invoice clerk and two customer service operatives.

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TNT Express in Czech Republic raises sales, profit in 2004

Posted by | Mar 31, 2005 | |

Czech express delivery service TNT Express increased sales by 30.8 per cent to EUR17.7m (some Kc532m) last year, CEO for the Czech Republic Petr Chvatal told a news conference today. Gross profit went up by almost 62 per cent to EUR3.3m (some Kc100m), Chvatal said. The company expects sales to increase to EUR20m (Kc600m) and profit to EUR4m (Kc120m) this year. Sales on the entire Czech express delivery market amount to an estimated Kc4bn. Around 1.5 million consignments are dispatched annually, with the market growing by around ten per cent a year, Chvatal said.

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French National Assembly to debate postal reform bill

Posted by | Mar 31, 2005 | |

A second reading of the French government’s bill to reform postal services will take place in the French national assembly between April 12 and 14, it was announced yesterday. The bill, which passed its second reading in the French senate on March 10, is intended to open up to France’s postal services market to competition. Its provisions include permission for the French post office, La Poste, to set up a banking subsidiary.

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Japanese Internal Affairs gain ‘greater say’ over Postal reform

Posted by | Mar 31, 2005 | |

Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Taro Aso is gaining a greater say in discussions between the government and the Liberal Democratic Party [LDP] over the privatization of the postal services. LDP members are complaining about the debate being promoted under the leadership of Postal Services Privatization Minister Heizo Takenaka. “He is conducting discussions all by himself, without taking into consideration the situation within the LDP,” said a senior LDP official. It turned out that Aso volunteered to “serve as a mediator” between the LDP and the government. However, Aso, if he increases his stance of compromising with the party, may create an impression that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s reform line has regressed. It seems likely that the power balance between Takenaka and Aso will have a subtle impact on the future of the postal service reform.

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Australia Post ordered to show greater transparency

Posted by | Mar 31, 2005 | |

Australia Post will be required to show greater transparency in its financial records under new rules put in place by the national competition watchdog today.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued mandatory Record Keeping Rules (RKRs) for Australia Post after receiving complaints from some of its retail and freight competitors.

Other retailers had raised concerns that Australia Post had been unfairly using its monopoly position as the country’s only provider of letter mail services to leverage itself in the retail sector through its shops.

The new rules ensure there can be no cross-subsidisation within Australia Post in terms of setting up other businesses and using the strength from its core business to subsidise others.

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