Year: 2005

MAT/TPN deal started with MT

Posted by | Aug 11, 2005 | |

The Pallet Network has linked with MAT Group to provide an international palletised distribution service. MAT’s Grays, Essex depot is also on board as a UK member of the network. The deal is the direct result of a report in Motor Transport in August 2004 of Brian Rosier’s purchase of MAT. “It’s taken a year to make it happen,” TPN chairman Richard Eldred says. Meanwhile, 15 members have bought shares in TPN from existing shareholders, typically in tranches of (pounds sterling)5,000 to (pounds sterling)10,000, Eldred says.

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MAT/TPN deal

Posted by | Aug 11, 2005 | |

The Pallet Network has linked with MAT Group to provide an international palletised distribution service. MAT’s Grays, Essex depot is also on board as a UK member of the network. The deal is the direct result of a report in Motor Transport in August 2004 of Brian Rosier’s purchase of MAT. “It’s taken a year to make it happen,” TPN chairman Richard Eldred says.

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Australia Post acquires PrintSoft

Posted by | Aug 10, 2005 | |

Australia Post today announced that it has acquired the global operations of PrintSoft, including PrintSoft Americas Inc., effective July 1, 2005. PrintSoft is a global leader in providing variable print software solutions for corporate, financial, utility, direct marketing and service bureau environments. This will be the first time that Australia Post has owned a business operating in the United States. In 2002, Australia Post and PrintSoft jointly developed Australia Post’s successful Post eLetter service, enabling clients to create letters, invoices, statements and postcards on their desktops, then securely submit them electronically to the Australia Post service bureau, where they are automatically aggregated, sorted and produced with bar codes for optimal production and postage saving.

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UK postal deregulation only six months away – but business awareness still low post watchdog tells leading charities

Posted by | Aug 10, 2005 | |

The UK’s postal service is being liberalised on 1st January 2006, but many businesses and organisations are still unaware of the opening-up of the market to competitors to Royal Mail early next year. Matt Ward, Deputy Director of Competition and Regulation at Postcomm, the postal industry regulator, outlined the implications for the deregulation of the postal industry to over 60 delegates from major charities and other membership-based organisations at a key industry conference. Delegates at the conference, held at on Friday, 10th June, discussed what customers should be doing to prepare themselves for an overhaul of the postal service, one of their most fundamental communication channels.

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Japan Post may buy Daimaru-affiliated delivery firm

Posted by | Aug 10, 2005 | |

Japan Post is in final talks to buy Asocia Corp, a delivery company affiliated with department store operator Daimaru Inc, in a bid to strengthen its services in areas where it competes with private-sector firms, the Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday. The national daily said the move would be Japan Post’s first acquisition of a company and that the public corporation is considering acquiring or forming a capital tie-up with more than one delivery company.

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Estonian Post purchases Stampit pilot license from Deutsche Post

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

Eesti Post, the Estonian national postal service, signed a licensing agreement in Bonn today with Deutsche Post on the use of the PC franking solution STAMPIT HOME. This makes Estonia the third country, following the United Kingdom and Switzerland, whose postal service wishes to offer the innovative franking solution from Germany to its customers. Beginning in autumn, Eesti Post will be testing STAMPIT HOME, adapted for the Estonian market, on 50 pilot customers. Following a successful test run, Eesti Post plans to offer the program to its customers on a continuing basis.

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Masterlink Express reports increased revenue

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

Polish courier services provider Masterlink Express, controlled by the French postal services company GeoPost, reported a 62 mln Polish zloty (USD19 mln/15.4 mln euro) revenue for the first half of 2005, up 45 pct year-on-year, the company said. The number of parcels handled by the company grew 35 pct year-on-year from January to June 2005, the company added. The company plans to continue to expand its offices network across the country and to complete the second stage of the construction of its parcel-sorting centre in Lucmierz near lodz, in central Poland, in the second half of 2005.

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UK Royal Mail and Postcomm cross swords over price control

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

Royal Mail and Postcomm have again clashed over the regulator’s proposed price control, with job losses at the postal service under the media microscope.

Royal Mail is disputing Postcomm’s proposal that it can increase the price of first-class stamps from 30p to at most 34p by 2010.

Chief executive Adam Crozier, speaking on Monday’s ‘Today’ programme on BBC Radio 4, said the proposals were a backwards step.

“The proposals would take the company back to where it was three years ago, when we were losing GBP1.7bn,” he said.

Royal Mail is pushing for a bigger increase and has previously said that the control would lead to 40,000 job losses.

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