DX Services plc is providing a trading update in advance of entering its close period prior to the release of its interim results for the six months to 31 December 2005 which it expects to announce on 7 March 2006.
Read MoreOne of the companies taking on Royal Mail in the newly-liberalised postal market issued a profits warning today after a slump at a key business. DX Services, which specialises in delivering time-critical documents for banks, estate agents and lawyers, said first half operating profits would be down 12% on a like-for-like basis on the previous year. Iver, Buckinghamshire-based DX said that a slowdown in the property market and operational changes in the financial sector had hit its core documents business which should report revenues of around GBP41 million in the last six months of 2005, down from GBP42.9 million in the same period in 2004.
Read MoreDocument management company Speos Belgium SA, part of Belgian postal service company De Post/La Poste, has acquired IT firm Secumail, Speos said. The deal was concluded at the end of November 2005 but announced on January 4, 2006.
Following the transaction Secumail is still 24-pct owned by German paper management systems manufacturer Boewe Systec Benelux. The acquisition of Secumail is in line with Speos’ strategy to focus on document management solutions.
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DSTi is turning heads with its high-quality, technologically advanced bespoke mail, writes Philip Chadwick.
Bristol may not have a reputation for being a revolutionary hotspot but one firm on the outskirts of the city believes it has hit on something that is changing the face of transactional mail.
DSTi Output has started to shout about its full-colour capabilities and the market is now beginning to respond. The combining of statements with full-colour marketing messages is something that DSTi believes has caught on, although it is still early days.
‘The challenge for us is to see this as a start, not an end,’ explains DSTi Output chief executive Tim Delahay. ‘The industry has woken up to us. We believe we have a revolutionary product and lead the market but for a while we have kept our powder dry.’
DSTi in Bristol was previously GE Mailing Services – part of the GE Capital and Finance Group. In 2002, it was bought by US transactional mail production firm DST International.
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