Tag: Europe

Swiss Post International market activities stepped up in Italy and Sweden

Posted by | Jan 17, 2005 | |

Swiss Post International (SPI), the international arm of Swiss Post, is further
expanding its business activities. In Italy SPI has completed a takeover of Porta a Porta S.p.A, including its wholly owned subsidiary, the Italian logistics company Servizi Distribuzione e Logistica S.r.l. (SDL). In addition, SPI will become the logistics partner of HSE (Home Shopping Europe), the Italian teleshopping provider. Boosting its activities in the Italian market enables SPI to reinforce its presence in the business-to-consumer segment and to offer customers a comprehensive range of services in the areas of storage, logistics and delivery, as well as in cross-border mail and goods traffic. At the same time, SPI has acquired ownership of Mail & Logistics in Sweden, its former franchise partner, and is now represented in Scandinavia by its own subsidiary.

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Post Office’s branch lines: Expansion of services is a counter revolution

Posted by | Jan 16, 2005 | |

IF YOU think that the Post Office is just a place to buy stamps or pick up a form to renew your passport, you haven’t been in for a while. From the array of financial services now on offer you could be forgiven for thinking that the Post Office has turned into a bank, and with the launch of its new telephone landline service last week, it is assuming the role of a utility provider too.
It is only a little over two decades since the Post Office lost control of the bulk of the supply of phone services in Britain, when Margaret Thatcher split telecoms off from the high street and mail side of the business in 1981, and subsequently privatised the newly named British Telecom. Now the Post Office has returned to the telecoms market with its Homephone service, which it says it hopes will take a million of BT’s 21 million customers over the next three years, by undercutting its charges by up to 20 per cent. As the controversy rages over branch closures – and there are more on the way – the Post Office, which is seen as being at the forefront in providing financial services for the ‘unbanked’, is pulling out all the stops to find a new role.

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Small shops in revolt against UK Post Office

Posted by | Jan 15, 2005 | |

The Post Office was accused yesterday of undermining its own network of sub-post offices with demands for huge levies and restrictions on the services branches can offer. Convenience store owners, many of which have recently taken over local post office services, said the demands by the state enterprise that they pay large commissions from their other commercial activities to the Post Office were a restrictive practice that could drive many to close the sub-post offices in their shops. Demands by the Post Office for bigger payments from convenience store owners were also discouraging independent shops and chains of convenience store owners from taking over post office services, depriving many areas of the country of a branch. Store owners said the move could lead to more closures – beyond the 2,500 already shut down or earmarked for closure – should only a few incentives remain for them to step in and take over the local franchise.

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Business Post enters the FTSE 250 Share Index

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

It was announced by the London Stock Exchange this week that Business Post Group plc has entered the FTSE 250 share index. Business Post’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Carvell, commented that this marks another major milestone in the continuing development of the Group. “This had been on the cards for some time” he said, “but it came a little earlier than we had expected. The market capitalisation of the Group has grown as a result of recent increases in our share price but we had, in any case, been on the threshold of entry to the index for some months now”. Business Post becomes the only British owned express delivery company to appear in this index, although a number of logistics companies feature within it.

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ANC wins feather in its cap

Posted by | Jan 13, 2005 | |

ANC Logistics has signed a 3 year contract with The Peacock Group to provide in-store deliveries to over 200 outlets throughout the south-east of England. Following the integration of Bonmarche stores in 2002 into the Peacock Group it had operated independent fleets out of two separate locations. It says costs were duplicated and therefore the group decided to streamline its transport operation with ANC taking over the distribution of both brands to stores.

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