Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Pos Malaysia forging regional alliances

Posted by | Dec 16, 2004 | |

Pos Malaysia & Services Holdings Bhd is setting up strategic alliances with private logistics and postal companies in East Asia to tap into the region’s courier market worth an estimated USD1.2 billion (RM4.56 billion) a year, says group managing director Datuk Ikmal Hijaz Hashim. He said the company had identified its potential partners and hoped to seal the alliances and begin transporting packages for them in the first half of 2005. “We are currently looking at Thailand, South Korea, China and Hong Kong,” he said after the company’s EGM in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 16.

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UK shoppers rush to buy goods online

Posted by | Dec 15, 2004 | |

Shoppers browsed retail internet sites in record numbers in the first week of December, adding to the expectations that this year will bring a massive e-Christmas. Figures to be released today from Hitwise, the internet site monitoring group, show that visits to online retailers reached an all-time high in the week to December 4, with retailers clocking up 13.1 per cent of all visits from surfers. Activity dipped slightly to 12.9 per cent in the week to December 11. Hitwise said site visits were up 24 per cent in the first week of December against last year. The growth in activity dovetails with research released last week by the IMRG, the electronic retail industry body, that anticipates a 64 per cent leap in online spending to Dollars 4bn (Pounds 2.07bn) this year. “The amazing thing to me is that there has not been real investment in this area for four years after the boom and bust days,” said James Roper, chief executive of the IMRG. “All the growth in the past four years has come from consumer demand.”

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U.S. wants Japan Post to have equal footing with private firms

Posted by | Dec 10, 2004 | |

The United States urged Japan on Friday to ensure that Japan Post will have an equal footing with private companies in express mail delivery, postal savings and insurance businesses after the state-backed entity is privatized, a U.S. government trade official said.

The official said it is important that the postal entity establish “a truly level playing field between Japan Post and its competitors in the insurance, banking and express delivery markets.”

The U.S. government made the request to the Japanese government when the two sides held working-level talks in Tokyo from Wednesday to Friday.

The talks are part of bilateral dialogue under the U.S.-Japan Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative. It is a key component of the Japan-U.S. Economic Partnership for Growth, launched in 2001 by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. President George W. Bush.

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Christmas stocking on the net

Posted by | Dec 9, 2004 | |

TINSEL TIME 2004 and one question is dominating the High Street: where have all the Christmas shoppers gone? Did they stock up at Marks & Spencer’s one-day Christmas sale spectacular, or were they too busy sweeping up Mix & Match three-for-the-price-of-two offers at Boots? Were they queueing up for the pre-Christmas sales at Allders or Debenhams or filling their stockings with buy-one-get-one-free DVDs at WH Smith? While High Street stalwarts are increasingly resorting to desperatelooking promotional drives to lure shoppers, online retailers are reporting phenomenal sales. The latest figures coming through are so strong that internet retail association Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) had to raise its earlier prediction of online Christmas sales, made in October, by more than 15% to Pounds 4 billion.

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