Tag: Europe

GO! expands its European network to Switzerland

Posted by | Oct 5, 2006 | |

Swiss express carrier NES has joined the GO! European network and will represent the brand throughout the Alpine country as GO! Switzerland.

The German express and logistics group, whose full name is GO! General Overnight Service GmbH, said it would be using Niederbipp-based NES’s 160 vehicles, 10 depots nationwide and 50 employees to transport national and interantional parcels.

“As one of the leading and most important express services, NES AG is an ideal partner for us,” explained Ralf-Hans Dierks, CEO of GO! Germany.

“Using the same high quality standards and product range, we will expand the national and European express and document despatch and be able to multiply our parcel volume.”

Dierk said Switzerland bore “enormous potential” for GO! and its European network and that the company was planning to expand further its international product range.

“We will not only extend our European system, but also strengthen our position among the leaders on the express market”, he added.

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De Post/La Poste invests in new sorting network

Posted by | Oct 5, 2006 | |

De Post/La Poste has restructured and modernised its network of sorting centres in an investment programme totalling close to EUR 250 million (USD 317 m).

The first two of four new centres have opened in Ghent and Charleroi, to be followed in the next few months by centres in Antwerp and Liège. The existing Brussels X centre is due to be completely modernised.

New sorting equipment installed at the sorting centres will provide better address recognition and improved quality of service, says De Post/La Poste. Direct mail, accounting for 700 million items a year, will be delivered the second day after posting (J+2) instead of the current four days.

De Post/La Poste said the new sorting infrastructure would progressively handle all mail to improve cost-effectiveness and competitiveness.

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Business Post says parcel revenues down 3.4 pct, sees 3 mln stg charges

Posted by | Oct 5, 2006 | |

Parcel and mail delivery firm Business Post Group PLC revealed a 3.4 pct fall in revenues from parcel services and said higher-than-expected debt and one-off charges from struggling franchises in the division would cost it 3 mln stg.

Business Post said revenues in parcel services had dropped to 94 mln stg in the first half, although part of the decline was due to a change in the number of trading days in the period against last time, a spokesman said.

The group, which underwent a management shake-up earlier this year, said it would have to set aside an extra 1.5 mln stg in the first half after it recovered less debt than expected from its franchise operations during the period.

‘Separately, we have identified a number of specific one-off charges amounting to some 1.5 mln stg, relating to prior years. This amount will be adjusted for in the interim results,’ the group added in a trading statement.

Business Post had already told analysts that losses in the franchise operation would reduce operating profits by about 3 mln stg this year.

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Royal Mail launches the business movers file: a powerful new source of business leads.

Posted by | Oct 5, 2006 | |

Royal Mail today launched the Business Movers File – a new source of information on businesses that have relocated within the UK.

The file, updated monthly, is designed to provide high quality sales leads for business-to-business marketers.

Companies that have relocated tend to be active buyers of a wide range of products and services – from office equipment to stationery, recruitment, advertising and financial services. According to research from the Directory Association, companies spend more in the first few months of moving than over the next five years and are seen as valuable sales prospects.

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Pre-close trading update

Posted by | Oct 5, 2006 | |

Business Post Group plc, the leading parcel and mail delivery group, provides the following pre-close update for the six months to 30 September 2006.
Trading in the first half of the current financial year has been satisfactory with Group revenue up 15% to GBP153m. Progress continues to be made with the performance improvement initiatives previously announced.

Revenues in Parcel Services, (comprising the Group’s overnight business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and cross-border parcel delivery activities) were down 3.4% to GBP94m. We continue to make progress with our initiatives to strengthen this business, with a focus on further improving our customer service and improving our operational efficiency. Parcels volumes are now showing growth and our customer service levels we believe remain amongst the highest in our industry.

We have made further progress in improving the performance of the franchise network. Eight franchises have been brought back into corporate ownership in the period, bringing the total transferred since the beginning of the calendar year to 14. Overall these operations make a significant trading loss. Our plan is to reduce the run-rate of these losses such that they are eliminated by the start of the new financial year. However, as previously advised, these losses will impact our operating profit by some GBP3m for the current financial year, weighted toward the first half. In addition we have incurred some GBP1m of costs on the transfer of franchisees to corporate ownership. These costs will be included within the operating profit.

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