Tag: Czech Republic

State-run Ceska posta requests monopoly over junk-mail competition

Posted by | Oct 28, 2004 | |

The Chamber of Deputies economic committee voted Oct. 20 in favor of granting Ceska posta a price advantage over potential competitors. If signed into law, the decision would fortify Ceska posta’s monopoly over home delivery of direct mail by requiring lone competitor Mediaservis to charge a higher rate. The move would effectively cost Mediaservis its 10 percent share of the market. The proposed amendment to the law regulating postal services would require competitors of state-run Ceska posta to charge 19 Kc (80 cents) for delivering addressed mail weighing less than 100 grams. Ceska posta delivers the same mail for 6.50 Kc. Current law does not specify whether direct mailings, or junk mail, fall under Ceska posta’s state-approved monopoly. Ceska posta believes it does and has asked the government to clarify the law.

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Ceska posta seeking monopoly for direct mail

Posted by | Oct 19, 2004 | |

Czech state-run postal services provider Ceska posta wants its monopoly to be extended to cover also direct mailing, daily Hospodarske noviny writes today. The company wants the change to be included in the amendment to the law on postal service that the Chamber of Deputies economic committee will discuss on Wednesday. Ceska posta would thus get rid of its only competitor Mediaservis, which has about a 10 per cent market share at present. The current Czech legislation does not clearly specify whether or not the service is part of Ceska posta’s monopoly, which enabled Mediaservis to enter the market.

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The International AddressGuide – now published with eastern European countries

Posted by | Oct 7, 2004 | |

The cross-border sourcing of addresses for direct mailing is becoming easier for eastern European countries: the new edition of the International AddressGuide from Swiss Post International now also includes, alongside the existing 15 countries in western Europe, new entries for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. The AddressGuide lists 500 providers from 20 countries and describes what they have to offer, with key figures such as the number of company addresses, decision-makers, private addresses, selection criteria, and the extent of their special address databases. To help users evaluate potential suppliers, the guide provides information such as year of establishment and number of employees. For each country, it also contains an outline of the address market with detailed information on prices, data protection, return rates, address formats and the correct salutations.

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DHL opens major facility in Czech capital

Posted by | Sep 27, 2004 | |

DHL opened an information technology operations center in the Czech capital on Friday, a spokeswoman said.

The Prague center will serve as the key IT facility for DHL in Europe. The company has similar operations centers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Scottsdale, Arizona.

The Prague center is expected to be in full operation by December and to employ some 800 people by early 2005, said Alison Jocz, a spokeswoman for the company.

DHL planned to invest EUR500 million (USD615 million) in the center over five years, Jocz said.

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DHL to launch new European IT centre in Prague

Posted by | Sep 8, 2004 | |

Logistics firm DHL will in two weeks launch operation of a new Prague-based European computer centre, the largest IT operations centre in the company’s global network, CzechInvest agency spokeswoman Jana Viskova told CTK.

DHL’s investment of over Kc5bn in the project which will offer employment to some 1,000 people is unparallelled in the sector in the past two years, Viskova said.

DHL will gradually shift activities from data centres in Great Britain and Switzerland to the new local centre situated in the southern part of Prague, near the D1 motorway.

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