Tag: Chronopost

Chronopost opens EUR 12m new Lyon-Corbas hub

Posted by | Jul 5, 2007 | |

Chronopost built the EUR 12 million centres, where 150 employees will work. The company expects to handle 20% of its national volume, 50,000 parcels per day.

Chronopost is also building a EUR 50 million main national hub at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, opened at the beginning of next year.

The express operator is significantly increasing the density of its national metropolitan network this year, basing it on 60 local centers and five new hubs at Montpellier, Poitier and Roissy (Charles De Gaulle airport), as well as Corbas and Chilly-Mazarin.

Hub Key facts
Area : 6,400 m2
Capacity: 7,500 boxes per hour
Items in transit: 50,000 boxes, 620 rolls, 250 pallets.
Number of vehicles: 130
Investment in the regions: Euro 49 million in 2006

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Chronopost names new management team

Posted by | May 31, 2007 | |

Chronopost, the French express subsidiary of La Poste / GeoPost, has named five new senior managers following the recent appointment of Christian Emery, previously head of ColiPoste, as managing director. Most of the new managers come from external companies.

Martin Piechowski is the new head of operations with responsibility for optimising the operator’s network of five hubs and 60 depots. He was formerly operations director at ColiPoste.

Charles Dauman has been appointed as new sales director. He was previously sales director for NeoPost France since 2001.

Sylvie Soris is now in charge of customer service. She will be responsible for improving customer satisfaction, call centre efficiency and introducing new electronic systems.

André Valade, formerly with Brink’s, the international security company, has been named head of security with responsibility for the operator’s locations and processes.

Tanneguy de Belloy, formerly director of administration and finances at Sun Microsystems France, has taken up the same post at Chronopost.

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Chronopost to use French tobacconists as delivery points

Posted by | Feb 9, 2007 | |

La Poste parcels subsidiary Chronopost is to use a network of 3,000 French tobacconists as delivery and pick-up points for customers ordering online.

The new ‘Chrono Relais’ service is a payable option for clients who will not be at home to receive packages during the day and find a nearby tobacconist more convenient than visiting the post office. Tobacconists are also open longer hours.

Clients will also be able to drop-off parcels at the tobacco outlets, to be picked up later by Chronopost, and pay for sending them.

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French La Poste decision reversed

Posted by | Jun 8, 2006 | |

European Union regulators were wrong to allow the French state-run postal service to help a unit expand into express delivery in the 1980s and ’90s, an EU court ruled Wednesday in a case brought by FedEx and DHL International. The regulators’ conclusion in 1997 that France did not provide illegal subsidies by allowing La Poste to grant logistical support to its Chronopost subsidiary was unjustified, the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg ruled. Industry groups have complained that former monopolies like La Poste have used government aid, which is intended to support nationwide letter delivery, to buy competitors in the express business. The case at the Court of First Instance, the second-highest European court after the European Court of Justice, was brought by express mail carriers FedEx, DHL and Crie, as well as industry group Union Francaise de L’Express.

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Chronopost International Portugal Q1 2006 Turnover Up 11.5 Pct Y/Y

Posted by | May 25, 2006 | |

Chronopost International Portugal, the local unit of French postal operator Chronopost International, generated a turnover of more than 7.8 mln euro (USD9.96 mln) in the first quarter of 2006, up 11.5 pct year-on-year, Portuguese economic news portal Agencia Financeira reported on May 24, 2006.
The number of orders processed by the company in the period exceeded 1.2 million, up 12 pct. The strong first quarter 2006 earnings results reinforced Chronopost International Portugal leading position among the private mail delivering companies in the country, the CEO for Portugal, Olivier Establet, said.

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