Post Denmark plans to transfer all printing and mailing business services to a new company to be set up jointly with Straalfors AS, Post Denmark said in a statement. A letter of intent has been signed and the new company is planned to be established by mid-August, with an option for Post Denmark to take a minority stake in the shares.”
Read MoreDeutsche Post, Europe’s largest postal services group, announced on Tuesday it would cut 3,000 jobs in its mail delivery unit by early next year. The move was widely perceived as an attempt to accelerate cost savings in the division that is Deutsche Post’s largest and most profitable, but which analysts say has the lowest potential for growth.
Read MoreCompetition in Britain’s postal industry shifted up a gear yesterday
when the industry regulator, Postcomm, signalled its intention to
grant a temporary licence to the logistics and support services
group Hays for the provision of three specialist services. Postcomm said the proposed one-year licence would allow it to assess
the effects of certain enhanced postal services while it develops
its longer term policy for liberalisation of the postal market where
Consignia, formerly the Post Office, enjoys a de facto monopoly on
the delivery of mail weighing less than 350gr and costing less than
pounds 1 to send.
UPS is to appeal to London Mayor Ken Livingstone against the decision to exclude clean diesel from exemptions from London’s congestion charges, announced in the Transport Strategy last week.
Read MoreContracts with: James Walker, Thorn Material Supply, Urbandrop, Career Services Unit, Harper Collins
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