Following consultation, Postcomm today issued a long term licence to Mail Plus Ltd to provide bulk mail and consolidation services. The licence contains a requirement for Mail Plus to maintain separate accounts for its UK licensed business to show that it is not being unfairly cross-subsidised by its parent company, La Poste.
Read MoreAndrew Sepencer left United Pallet Network, where he was managing director, on Friday to join rivals Pallet-Track as sales and marketing director. Spencer says: It was a personal decision to leave. I became stale and stagnant at UPN. I wanted to move forward and Pallet-Track presented me with an excellent way to achieve this. I cant wait to get involved.
Read MoreSwedish information management products provider Scribona AB has extended its partnership with German logistics provider Schenker AG and DHL, the express logistics subsidiary of German postal group Deutsche Post AG, it was reported on February 16, 2005. Through the collaboration, the logistics systems will be integrated and Scribona’s physical inventory management and transports will be taken over by DHL and Schenker. Scribona’s logistics personnel in Sweden will be offered employment at DHL by the summer of 2005. Within 18 months, all physical inventory management will be relocated to one of DHL’s logistics centres at the same time that the logistics systems are integrated. The motive behind the collaboration is to create a more flexible supply chain function, Magnus Johansson, head of Scribona’s Supply Chain Management unit, said.
Read MoreThe German postal services market generated revenues in 2004 of more than €23 billion. Some two thirds of the market is open to competition. Just under two thirds of these revenues is accounted for by Deutsche Post AG (DPAG), with the remaining third being split among a number of providers, most notably courier, express and parcel service providers.
Read MoreFew markets are harder to open than postal services. Slowly but surely, e-mail, regulation, competition and market fragmentation are forcing national operators to rethink their models. Europe’s pace is about to quicken. Denmark will soon announce the winner of a 25 per cent stake in Post Danmark, with Dutch TPG and Germany’s Deutsche Post among contenders. Belgium wants a minority partner to modernise its service: TPG and France’s La Poste are rumoured to be considering bidding jointly. Cross-border consolidation so far has been held back by slow liberalisation and national sensitivity. Austria balked last year at partial privatisation for fear its service would land in German hands. Change has to come. Under EU pressure, the legally permissible monopoly on letters dropped from 350 to 100 grams in 2003 and falls to 50 next year. Markets are supposed to be open completely by 2009, though several may not be ready.
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