Tag: Europe

Postwatch chairman Carr turns up heat on UK Royal Mail

Posted by | Jun 10, 2005 | |

Postwatch chairman Peter Carr has waded into the row over Postcomm’s pricing proposals, tongue-lashing Royal Mail for claiming the price- freeze would starve the company of cash. The watchdog maintains that the plans allow a minimum capital expenditure of GBP750m up until 2010. It claims, in fact, that Royal Mail will spend GBP40m less than its budget under the current deal. A Postwatch spokesman says: “Royal Mail is making an issue out of nothing. It is not being starved of investment. Quite the contrary, it has the freedom and the money.”

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TNT/Royal Mail: GLS sale would suit both sides

Posted by | Jun 10, 2005 | |

TNT has expressed interest in acquiring Royal Mail’s European parcel unit GLS Holding, among other global targets, to expand its express delivery network and increase market share. Although Royal Mail has yet to make a comment, a possible sell-off could work well with the group’s plans for semi-privatization.

According to the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche, TNT may be planning a series of acquisitions, one of which could be Royal Mail’s subsidiary General Logistics Systems (GLS), CEO Peter Bakker said in an interview.

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Palletline strengthens management team

Posted by | Jun 10, 2005 | |

Palletline has strengthened its management team with three key appointments:
Colin Enticott is promoted into a new role as general manager operations. Enticott has been with Palletline for five years.
Clive Brooks steps up to another new role as national service development manager. Brooks has previous general management experience at Europa, a Palletline member, and almost twenty years’ experience of depot operations.
Mark Warwick moves from regional service development manager to general manager London.

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Investment plan to modernize French Post

Posted by | Jun 9, 2005 | |

On June 2nd the Board of Directors of the French Post approved an investment plan of 770m euros to be spent over the 2005 to 2007 period to help modernize the network of Post Offices. Of the total amount 150m will be devoted to a training program and another 150m devoted to implementation of an IT system that would allow the Post to adopt new trends and launch new products. The balance will be devoted to renovations that will reduce queuing time in post offcies. Press Release available in French.

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UK PPA warns lifting of postal controls will hit B2B sector

Posted by | Jun 9, 2005 | |

Business-to-business magazines that depend on doorstep distribution could suffer under plans to end price controls on press postage, the Periodical Publishers’ Association (PPA) has warned. The current Presstream system, which forces Royal Mail to keep prices low for subscription-based magazines, will be unregulated from April 2006 under proposals from the postal services regulator, Postcomm. Postcomm said it believed publishers would be protected from soaring prices because there was sufficient competition in the market to keep charges low.

But Ian Locks, PPA chief executive, said: “The competitive playing field for the Presstream service is set within the context of the postal delivery of magazines.

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