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Empost Continues The Success Of Ezimail Service

Posted by | Mar 16, 2008 | |

Ezimail is a unique mail service introduced by Empost that entails the personal delivery of mail directly from the central mail room to any location at the convenience of the customer. The leader in express courier and cargo and logistics in the UAE, Empost introduced Ezimail to ensure the arrival and delivery of mail to customers daily and regularly, without the need to visit the post office.

Elaborating on the benefits of the service, Empost’s CEO, Mr. Sultan Al Midfa said: “Ezimail affirms Empost’s unique capability of offering quick, integrated and functional solutions to small and large businesses alike. Our objective has always been to become the unmatched, premium, complete end-to-end service provider in the distribution, focusing on the needs of our customers at all times. Ezimail is an extension of Empost’s initiative in consistently delivering cost-effective solutions that will offer greater value to our customers helping them save on the most important resources of time and money.”

Through Ezimail, the mail is delivered in a sealed satchel to ensure safety and high confidentiality. Ezimail also offers customers added convenience by collecting mail for delivery to the post office besides the option to purchase postal stamps. Some of the features of Ezimail are the collection and delivery of ordinary postal items, registered letters, EMS/Mumtaz items and other normal mail contents.

Empost accredits its consistent growth through innovation and refinement of services, which have been the company’s primary strengths for over a decade. The company has evolved over the past decade to cater to growing and diverse business needs through a host of value-added services such as Total Mail Management, Heavies Express Service, Economy Express, Ezidox, Track and Trace, and a stream of other services including insurance on all dispatches. A reliable, comprehensive logistics solutions provider, Empost’s multi-pronged approach is put into practice by a team of 1,000 specialised staff members to make it the UAE’s fastest growing integrated freight forwarding and logistics solutions provider.

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Emirates Post plans aggressive expansion ahead of share offer

Posted by | Mar 10, 2008 | |

Enjoying strong profit and growing by 20 per cent annually, Emirates Post has turned its focus on expansion plans abroad.

Abdulla Ibrahim Al Daboos, Vice-Chairman and President of Emirates Post Holding Group and Chairman of Emirates Post, sat down with Emirates Business to discuss the group’s diverse business interests and its plans for the future, including acquiring a fleet of aircraft and starting joint ventures with remittance firms overseas.

Looking beyond traditional domestic mail processing, Al Daboos is working to turn Emirates Post into a successful international brand.

How was Emirates Post’s performance last year and what are your expectations for 2008?

No doubt we have made a lot of progress since 2001 when Emirates Post was established as a commercial entity under the UAE Government. The services we have provided so far have been very helpful to the community. Emirates Post made Dh190 million net profit for the year 2007, and we expect a 20 per cent growth from our national operations. If we acquire international operations, we can expect another 20 per cent growth.

What measures has Emirates Post been taking to prepare to move outside the UAE?

We had to think of expansion to our operations and services beyond the UAE borders. We divided our strategy into three categories: financial, express and logistic services. We have already developed these, but more on the national level, and we can use this as our foundation to go regionally and internationally.

We are re-engineering a lot of the processes currently taking place in the government, semi-government and private sectors by evaluating how they conduct their businesses and interact with their customers and mail management. But we need to work on many issues such as proper management, proper IT infrastructure and liquidity so we can succeed internationally.

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Emirates Post plans aggressive expansion ahead of share offer

Posted by | Mar 5, 2008 | |

Enjoying strong profit and growing by 20 per cent annually, Emirates Post has turned its focus on expansion plans abroad.

Abdulla Ibrahim Al Daboos, Vice-Chairman and President of Emirates Post Holding Group and Chairman of Emirates Post, sat down with Emirates Business to discuss the group’s diverse business interests and its plans for the future, including acquiring a fleet of aircraft and starting joint ventures with remittance firms overseas.

Looking beyond traditional domestic mail processing, Al Daboos is working to turn Emirates Post into a successful international brand.

How was Emirates Post’s performance last year and what are your expectations for 2008?

No doubt we have made a lot of progress since 2001 when Emirates Post was established as a commercial entity under the UAE Government. The services we have provided so far have been very helpful to the community. Emirates Post made Dh190 million net profit for the year 2007, and we expect a 20 per cent growth from our national operations. If we acquire international operations, we can expect another 20 per cent growth.

What measures has Emirates Post been taking to prepare to move outside the UAE?

We had to think of expansion to our operations and services beyond the UAE borders. We divided our strategy into three categories: financial, express and logistic services. We have already developed these, but more on the national level, and we can use this as our foundation to go regionally and internationally.

We are re-engineering a lot of the processes currently taking place in the government, semi-government and private sectors by evaluating how they conduct their businesses and interact with their customers and mail management. But we need to work on many issues such as proper management, proper IT infrastructure and liquidity so we can succeed internationally.

Can you elaborate on your international expansion strategy?

We do a lot of money remittance. There are a lot of people who transfer money to countries such as India, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. In the past, we used to have a relationship or an agreement with a company or agent in those countries.

We now intend to acquire a stake in such companies abroad to expand our services. This will apply to cargo and courier services. Instead of being just the sending part, we would like to have a share in the receiving part as well.

We expect this to give us better control over the services and a better share of the revenues on the other side of the business. Meanwhile, we are keeping in mind the continuous improvement of quality. If we are involved in the know how, then we will be sure the service level here and abroad is the same.

The more we expand internationally, the more we control and improve quality in these countries. Also it will mean we will bring the business here as individuals and corporates have more confidence in us. It is a new way of looking at it. This is how we can replicate the success of many of the services we provide here in certain countries where we can operate.

Have you already started acquiring stakes in companies abroad?

Yes, we have already have done this. We have begun due diligence in India, Pakistan and Indonesia – talking to a company that exists there and buying a share in that company. We are working now on Sudan, Jordan and Syria.

As Emirates Post Group, we have a lot of services and several companies beneath us such as: Electronic Data Centre (EDC), which is a document data centre that does printing, mail fulfilment and credit card issuance; Wall Street Exchange; and Emirates Marketing and Promotion.

We are trying to expand wherever we go to improve services that are related to what we do. Look what we have been doing nationally. This is encouraging us to set up joint ventures to expand internationally.

What are the challenges you foresee to your international expansion pl

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Wall Street’s mobile teams begin on-site disbursement of workers’ salaries

Posted by | Mar 4, 2008 | |

The service, which comes with no extra charge to the workers, is available to companies that have signed agreements with Emirates Post to have their workers’ salaries paid out through mobile teams of Wall Street Exchange.

The Wall Street teams visit designated venues, usually workers’ accommodation sites, on fixed days to disburse the salaries, using laptops and GPRS to enable workers to transfer money to their home countries through Wall Street’s large network of correspondent banks across the globe, including South Asia, for a competitive fee.

The worker can either transfer money to a beneficiary bank account or send cash within minutes using other available money transfer channels, including Instant Cash and Western Union.

Abdul Basit Al Suwaidi, CEO – UAE, Wall Street Exchange said:

“Wall Street is among the first companies to offer this value addition of salary disbursal at the doorstep of workers. We have signed agreements with several companies, involving thousands of workers. The first experience of distributing salaries through our mobile teams was completed in February with a success rate of 99.9%. The response from the companies and the workers has been overwhelming.”

Companies signing agreements with Emirates Post for enabling the salary payout of workers enjoy several benefits and advantages, including convenient locations, extended timings, timely payment and, most importantly, the facility of transferring money without going through the trouble of visiting an exchange company.

The Wall Street mobile team service is available to companies with over 500 workers.

In the case of companies with less than 500 workers, they will have to collect their salary from designated post offices.

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Oman Post delegation keen to boost ties with Emirates Post

Posted by | Feb 24, 2008 | |

A high-level delegation from Oman, led by Dr. Ahmed Bin Ali Bin Al Mewaly, Director of Privatisation, Ministry of Finance, Oman, visited Emirates Post and discussed areas of mutual interest.

The delegation held talks with Emirates Post officials, including Mr. Abdulla Al Daboos, President of Emirates Post Group, Fahad Al Hosani, Vice President, Emirates Post Group and Mr. Ibrahim Karam, CEO of Emirates Post

Emirates Post officials briefed the delegation on the advancements made by Emirates Post over the past few years and expressed strong desire for mutual cooperation between the two sides.

The delegation visited Ramoul Sorting Centre, Wall Street, Training & Development Centre, EMP, EDC and Empost, and showed interest in the various activities and operations of Emirates Post and subsidiaries. They toured different facilities and were briefed by Sultan Al Midfa, CEO of Empost, Mr. Abdullah Bin Ghalib, GMD, Wall Street, Ahmed Tahlak, CEO, EMP, Abdullah Al Ashram, CEO, EDC, Wiaam Ghanem, Director of Training Centre and Munther Bin Shaker, Director, Ramoul Sorting Centre.

The Omani delegation consisted of Saif Bin Nasser Al Mahrouqi, Director of Administrative Issues, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mr. Hussain Bin Malallah Al Lawathi, Investment Consultant, Ministry of Finance & Economy and Mr. Ahmed bin Saleh Al Mewaly, Deputy Director General, Operations, Oman Post.

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