Tag: Europe

Austrian Post AG plans own business parcel services

Posted by | Sep 2, 2005 | |

Austrian postal company Oesterreichische Post AG will sever its cooperation with parcel service company DPD and launch its own business-to-business parcel services in 2007, the Post AG supervisory board decided on September 2, 2005.
In the next two weeks Post AG will also buy a parcel service company in the Czech Republic, which CEO Anton Wais called the largest acquisition in the history of Post AG, referring to a well-known company. Wais, however, gave no details. Following the withdrawal from DPD Post AG is also considering acquisitions in Hungary and Bulgaria. Recently it bought Hungary’s direct handbill distributor Feibra.

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What future for Royal Mail as Deutsche Post wades into UK with mooted bid for Exel?

Posted by | Sep 2, 2005 | |

Allan Leighton, chairman of Royal Mail, can only look on and weep. While overseas rivals respond to the challenge of deregulation by expanding into new businesses and new territories, he’s condemned to make the best of what he’s got. Trapped within the Treasury controlled boundaries of the public finances, all he can do to meet the challenge of postal competition is slash costs to match the decline in revenues. The already privatised Deutsche Post, by contrast, is moving to reduce its dependence on the German domestic market, where its monopoly is due to end in 2007, by expanding overseas.

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Dutch group looks to hire rival force of British postmen

Posted by | Sep 2, 2005 | |

Peter Bakker, head of the Dutch post office, said yesterday that the company is considering hiring its own force of postmen to compete head on with Royal Mail.
The company, TPG, trades as TNT Mail in the UK, and already delivers heavier mail door-to-door using Express Dairies. Mr Bakker said that although replicating Royal Mail’s entire network was “not viable”, hiring large numbers of postmen was “one of the models” TNT was looking at in the UK. He expected there would be “one or two companies with competing networks to Royal Mail” after the mail market was fully opened up to competition. Royal Mail would still maintain its leading position, but he saw no reason why TNT Mail could not have between 10pc and 15pc of the UK mail market. “We have the capability to succeed,” he said. Mr Bakker is looking at an “end to end” delivery strategy that doesn’t use the Royal Mail’s access agreement which TNT Mail uses at the moment.

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ComReg turns down request for 25% stamp price rise

Posted by | Sep 2, 2005 | |

A controversial request from An Post for a 25 per cent rise in the price of a basic stamp has been rejected by the regulator ComReg. An Post claims the rise is an integral part of its recovery plan, but ComReg in a preliminary assessment said the increase had “not been justified”. The postal company was hoping to increase the price of a stamp from 48 to 60 cent. However, the regulator has said it is prepared to consider the idea of increasing the price of large envelopes from 60 to 90 cent and packets from 96 to cent to EUR2. A consultation process is now under way on the pricing issue and submissions must be made to the regulator by October 14th. After this a final decision will be announced. An Post has been lobbying for a price rise since 2003. The company believes its financial position remains weak to the extent that it believes it is not in a position to pay the full terms of the national pay agreement, Sustaining Progress.

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GLS to expand in Germany

Posted by | Sep 2, 2005 | |

General Logistics Systems (GLS), Europe’s third-largest parcel delivery service, is planning to expand on the German market. The company wishes to have an extensive network of its own branches throughout Europe in future, and is aiming to raise the number of outlets it operates in various retail stores in Germany from 2,500 to 5,000 within the next year. In particular, the company is hoping to lure private customers away from German postal service operator Deutsche Post.

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