Year: 2005

Cover price rises inevitable – PPA UK

Posted by | Dec 1, 2005 | |

Consumer magazine price rises are “inevitable” if the removal of the cap on Royal Mail’s distribution charges goes ahead, warns the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA). The trade body says “time is running out” for it to persuade postal regulator Postcomm that it should not take away pricing controls on Royal Mail’s Presstream magazine delivery product. David Thomas, head of legal affairs at the PPA, claims that allowing the postal operator to set its own prices could result in huge cost hikes for publishers. He is also concerned by the lack of nationwide, competitive magazine distribution services being planned by entrants to the postal market, which will be opened to competition in January.

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DHL opens new service centre in India

Posted by | Dec 1, 2005 | |

DHL has opened its new service centre in Chennai. The new centre will cater to 43 courier routes operating out of it in 2 cycles, which will nearly double the current shipment handling capacity at the centre. The new centre will also have the DHL Customer Service Centre, which can double up as the disaster recovery site. DHL has over 5,000 customers in Tamil Nadu and Chennai is the third largest market for the company in India.

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La Poste wins French consent for banking services

Posted by | Dec 1, 2005 | |

French banking regulator Comite des Establissments de Credit et des Entreprises d’Investissement (CECEI) has given La Poste mail service approval for its own postal bank, to be named La Banque Postale. The decision was questioned by the French Banking Federation, which warned that the market could be at risk once La Poste’s network of 17,000 branches starts to offer banking and financial services. La Poste currently serves savings and checking account clients.

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TNT launches Asia road express service

Posted by | Dec 1, 2005 | |

TNT yesterday launched an Asia road express service which by 2007 will be able to truck small cargo from Singapore to Chinese cities. The new service may also see shippers beginning to opt out of both sea and air freight for some cargo with a more cost effective road transport option. This may result in some losses for both shipping lines and airfreight operators in Asia but TNT, however, sees the service as complementing the region’s well developed air and sea freight routes with the potential of significantly cutting logistics costs for businesses. It has launched what is claimed to be Asia’s first and only integrated network spanning Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and plans to expand it to link up more than 120 cities across 4,000 kilometres when Vietnam and Cambodia are added in the first half of next year. The global express forwarder hopes to extend the road links eventually to China by 2007.

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IMRG Annual Report 2005

Posted by | Dec 1, 2005 | |

C O N T E N T S
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2 A DECADE OF GROWTH
3 THE IMRG INDEX
3.1 Electricals Index
3.2 Clothing, Footwear & Accessories Index
3.3 Beer, Wine & Spirits Index
4 THROUGH THE ROOF: E-CHRISTMAS 2004
5 2004 E-RETAIL MILESTONES
6 2005: POWERING AHEAD
7 THE INTERNATIONAL MARKETPLACE
7.1 United Kingdom
7.2 Europe
7.3 North America
8 TOP E-RETAIL OPERATIONS AND WHY THEY THRIVE
8.1 Key sector data from Kelkoo
9 RETAIL TRAFFIC DATA – 2004
10 THE HIGH STREET’S CHALLENGE
10.1 Online Trends Point To Declining Trust In Brands
11 INVESTMENT IN E-RETAIL
11.1 Drawing The Virtuous Circle
11.2 Investing In Fashion
11.3 E-retail investment survey
11.4 The big picture
11.5 Online delivery: a major opportunity for retailers and transporters
12 THE E-RETAIL TIMELINE
13 DIGITAL DOWNLOADS
14 ONLINE SECURITY
14.1 The True Cost Of Online Fraud
14.2 Fraud Prevention: What Every Merchant Should Know About Internet Fraud
15 ISIS: RAISING STANDARDS
16 ABOUT IMRG
16.1 The IMRG e-Retail Sales Index
16.2 The IMRG Senate
17 E-RETAIL INDUSTRY PRIORITIES 2005
18 IMRG SENATE & MEMBERS
19 CONTACT DETAILS

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TNT bags Woollies mailroom contract

Posted by | Nov 30, 2005 | |

A leading British retailer, renowned for offering high street shoppers great value for money, has struck a first class deal of its own – appointing TNT Managed Services to run the mailroom operations at two of its sites in the South East. TNT Managed Services has secured a prestigious contract with Woolworths to operate the mailrooms at the retail giant’s London Head Office in Marylebone, and at its Swindon distribution centre. The contract has seen the company’s mailroom team take responsibility for the timely delivery of some 300,000 packages and items of mail to Woolworths employees at the two sites every year.

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DHL opens NZD10m distribution centre in New Zealand

Posted by | Nov 30, 2005 | |

DHL Danzas Air & Ocean has underpinned its commitment to New Zealand by opening a NZD10 million distribution hub near Auckland airport. The distribution centre, which is about the size of two rugby fields, is one of a number of new facilities in the upper North Island. The DHL distribution centre was developed in response to increasing demand for the company’s logistics services, DHL Danzas Air & Ocean New Zealand managing director Brian Broom said.

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