France’s postal company, La Poste, bought 50 peccent of the stock in Masterlink, the polish company which specialises in courier solutions, tracking services, and shipping tools, in Poland, Scandinavia and Baltic States. Its strategic investor so far was Sweden’s Posten AB.
Read MoreThe Czech Post Office Ceska posta has ten rivals with permission to provide postal services on the Czech market, the Ministry of Transport and Communications has reported.
Postal services are provided by several courier services, as well as by multinational companies like TNT, DHL International or United parcel service.
While Ceska posta has to offer its services throughout the country, its rivals generally concentrate on profitable segments of the market, that is, services for the corporate sector or in towns, Ceska posta’s spokesman Ladislav Vancura said.
Last year, Ceska posta delivered 735.2 million letters, 23.8 million parcels, and 90 million bills.
It posted a gross profit of Kc743m on operating revenues of Kc14.5bn in 2001. The company runs 3,400 post offices and employs 39,600 people.
Read MoreThe competition among the courier service companies operating in Costa Rica is growing following the increase in on-line shopping activities, the preference offirms to import materials and components through courier services and the fact that the exporting companies operating in Costa Rica tend to use these services to ensure that the goods are delivered on time and fulfill security standards. Some of the companies offering courier services in Costa Rica are FedEx, United Parcel Service (UPS), Aerocasillas, DHL, Jet Box, Correos de Costa Rica and Cafe Britt. The imports made through courier services so far in 2002 have amounted some US$ 10.2mn, compared to US$ 7.1mn in 2001.
Read MoreJuly 5 2002 Deutsche Post, the German postal service, is to acquire a further 25 percent in DHL International, in which it already holds a 50.64 percent.
Read MoreAndrew Lester & Associates has just delivered the first of four sets of research findings on the UK parcels and packets market in 2002. The PacTrac Programme is a continuous market monitoring study that reports quarterly on parcel and packet shipments, carriers used and types of service levels required.
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