Tag: Europe

UPS announces a market share increase next year in Poland

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

At the beginning of 2005, the American giant United Parcel Service bought the Polish courier company Stolica. UPS and Stolica are going to present a new range of services in January 2006. The consolidated company will deliver low-cost shipments on a large scale, but is also going to offer special logistic services to very demanding clients, said Krzysztof Zdziarski, UPS’s general director in Poland. According to Zdziarski the company will be able to boost its income on the international and also the domestic market, which has been developing really quickly so far.

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GeoPost lips zipped as Begle quits

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

French parcels carrier GeoPost was tight-lipped at the weekend about the surprise departure of Claude Begle, chief executive of Geopost International Management and Development, for arch rival DHL Express. Geopost, a subsidiary of French postal organisation La Poste, declined to say when and why he had left the company. Journalists were referred to the announcement made by DHL last Monday concerning Mr Begle’s appointment as chief operating officer for DHL Express Germany and DHL Express Central Europe. The communications manager for GeoPost, Marion Egal, would say only that it was Mr Begle who had chosen to leave the company and not the company which had decided to dispense with his services. She added that the company’s management team would be reorganised as a result of the departure and an announcement regarding this would be made ‘a bit later’. ‘Our feeling here is that GeoPost management are handling the situation as it is,’ she said, ‘International development is going on.’

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Royal Mail fights to keep public onside

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

Royal Mail tonight launches its first advertising campaign in 18 months in a bid to boost its brand credentials before the market is opened up to competition next year. The company, which handles 83 million items a day for 27 million UK addresses, hopes the campaign will boost its brand credentials and link Royal Mail to the “magic of mail” as the company’s monopoly on home delivery is broken in January. “Royal Mail has been preparing itself for the introduction of full competition for some time. Naturally we want to cement our position as market leader by having advertising that communicates the impressive service we offer the UK each and every day,” said Tom Hings, the head of brand and advertising at Royal Mail.

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UK Postcomm calls for more innovation to create a viable rural Post Office network

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

The rural Post Office network should be planned using more innovative methods of service provisions such as mobile post offices and partnerships with other organisations or communities. “Some of the 8,000 rural branches throughout the UK are in busy market towns, but others may serve only five customers a week,” Nigel Stapleton, chairman of Postcomm said. “There is no single model for all these situations and Post Office Ltd needs to be flexible to sustain access to postal services – perhaps a travelling Post Office – in the smaller and more remote communities.” Post Office Ltd is due to report to the government at the end of 2005 on pilot schemes for more flexible provision of Post Office services in rural areas. Postcomm recommends that the rural network should be planned to reflect the local population and small business distribution to ensure access to cash and to help village stores and other rural businesses to survive.

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Belgian De Post/La Poste to cut 6,640 full-time jobs by 2010

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

Belgian postal services company De Post/La Poste will cut 6,640 full-time jobs by 2010, reducing its staff for the first time ever to less than 30,000, according to Belgian newspaper Le Soir, it was reported on October 10, 2005.
The measure is part of the business plan which De Post/La Poste has worked out with the national post office Post Denmark in the framework of their cooperation. De Post/La Poste will not lay off any employees. The downsizing will consist in 2,200 retirements, 1,630 early retirements, voluntary redundancies and people who will switch over to part-time work. De Post/La Poste plans to create 2,000 new jobs in order to strengthen its teams.

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