Consignia today announced a half year operating loss of £100 million before exceptional items, compared to a restated loss of £20 million for the same period a year ago. After accounting for exceptional items, the post-tax loss for the half year is £281 million, compared with a £113 million loss (restated) for the previous half year.
Read MorePosten, the Norwegian postal services, continues to slim down and plans to cut its workforce in 2002.
Read MoreNovember 2001 – Kuehne & Nagel have bought the Milan based company Logistics Srl., a company specialized in the warehousing and distribution business. (11/26/2001)
Read MoreTHE new boss of the Royal Mail has denied she is scrapping the second post – because, she says, it never existed in the first place. Although three million letters drop through letterboxes each day after 2pm, former Avon lady Gillian Wilmot – in a public relations exercise worthy of a New Labour spin doctor – insisted that the second delivery was ‘a myth’. She said: ‘What we have is a sweeper service that picks up mail we should have delivered first time round.
Read MoreBelgian postal services operator La Poste, which has been heavily criticised for its performance by the government in recent weeks, held a meeting of its administrative board on Friday. Following the meeting, the group issued a communique relating to its plan of action for resolving its problems. The board also confirmed its wish to guarantee La Poste’s quality of service and to pursue its modernisation.
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