Tag: Europe

FEDMA celebrates ten years

Posted by | Sep 12, 2007 | |

FEDMA celebrated yesterday its 10 year anniversary: 10 years of innovation, continued growth, change and development in the direct and interactive marketing industry.

More than 80 high-level representatives from the European Parliament, the European Commission, national direct marketing associations and members attended the cocktail event hosted by FEDMA and supported by Reader’s Digest, Swiss Post International and DHL Global Mail to mark this date.

FEDMA, the Federation of European Direct & Interactive Marketing, was created in 1997 as a result of the merger between EDMA (est. 1976) and FEDIM (est. 1992) and is the single voice of the European direct marketing industry.

“FEDMA has become the voice and driving force of European direct marketing in the past ten years. Using its expertise and comprehensive know-how, FEDMA makes a strong contribution to the further development of the growth industry of direct marketing. Global Mail thanks the dedicated FEDMA team for the valuable support and looks forward to many years of continued cooperation,” said Jürgen Höfling, CEO DHL Global Mail.

FEDMA represents the Direct Marketing sector in all its forms. Its objective is to protect and promote the European direct and interactive marketing sector by creating, through representation, self-regulation and information, acceptance of and confidence in direct and interactive marketing within a healthy commercial and legislative environment in which the sector can profitably operate and develop.

Its national members are direct marketing associations (DMAs) representing users, service providers and media/carriers of direct marketing. In addition to its direct Corporate, Corporate Associate and Company Members, FEDMA represents nearly 10,000 companies through its 27 national DMA members.

The direct marketing sector represents an annual expenditure of over 100 billion euro and employs over 2 million people directly, and many more indirectly, within the EU.

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Royal Mail condemns CWU threat of further strike action

Posted by | Sep 11, 2007 | |

Royal Mail is disappointed that, despite a four week “period of calm” to allow talks to take place, the Communication Workers Union continues to ignore the stark challenges facing the company and has announced they will call further strikes. The CWU’s decision is in spite of Royal Mail offering the union a short term resolution to the dispute, within the amount of money available for pay this year and at no extra cost to the company, as well as a longer term solution which we believe is in the interests of our people, our customers and the future of business.

During the talks we also made it clear to the CWU that our clear aim in consulting on pensions is to protect our existing people’s pensions as far as possible and not increase their contributions – while the union wants to keep the scheme open to new recruits, even though they know it will disadvantage the postmen and postwomen who already work for the company.

Royal Mail has also offered that any postmen and postwomen affected by changes in their starting time because of new EU transport legislation will keep their early start allowance for as long as they continue in their current job even though they will be starting later. Our aim in making this offer is to ensure the postmen and postwomen affected do not lose money as a result of the change – but the union is opposed to this offer.

The union’s stance on such issues does not reflect the views and interests of the vast majority of our people but rather the interest of activists within the CWU. We will be talking to our people over the next few days as we decide how to make progress on these issues.

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Postal union set for more strikes

Posted by | Sep 11, 2007 | |

The postal workers union has said it will announce further strikes after failing to reach an agreement with the Royal Mail during five days of talks.

Industrial action had been scheduled for last week, but was suspended for last ditch negotiations at the weekend.

According to the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU), while progress had been made in some areas, including pay, it was not enough to avert strike action.

CWU members are concerned about pay levels and modernization plans.

The Royal Mail said it was “extremely disappointed” the CWU had continued “to ignore the stark challenges facing the company”.

Since June, the CWU has staged a number of national walkouts in protest at Royal Mail’s offer of a 2.5 pct pay increase and the company’s aggressive modernization plans.

The union claims the shake-up plans will put about 40,000 jobs at risk.

According to the CWU, the Royal Mail has now upped its pay offer to a two-year increase worth 6.7 pct, however the company is sticking to pension proposals rejected by the union – such as increased employee contributions and later retirement age.

But the Royal Mail countered that it had “made it clear” to union officials that their aim was to “protect (our) existing people’s pensions as far as possible and not increase their contributions”.

The CWU also said there has been no final agreement on a number of areas including job security, personnel procedures, automation, productivity and network changes.

Until now, Royal Mail has stood firm against union demands insisting they are unaffordable.

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Postwatch: Meeting of the Counters Advisory Group

Posted by | Sep 11, 2007 | |

The Postwatch Counters Advisory Group convened today (Tuesday 11th September) for the fourth time this year. The group comprises a wide range of stakeholders with an interest in the future of the post office network and the needs of its customers.

The group’s aim is to promote the views, concerns and interests of all consumers and in particular people with disabilities, the elderly, those on low incomes and people who reside in rural areas.

The session enabled Postwatch and Post Office Ltd to update stakeholders on the plans for public consultation and how customers will be informed of proposals. Members recognized the continuing challenges facing the network and will continue their work on post office issues in the coming year.

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Russian parcels firm Armadillo re-brands to DPD

Posted by | Sep 11, 2007 | |

Russian parcels firm Armadillo, a GeoPost subsidiary, is re-branding to DPD to benefit from the strong international name. The move follows similar re-branding of GeoPost subsidiaries in Poland, the Baltic States and Benelux.

The previous product name Bizpak for the domestic parcel service is being phased out in favor of DPD, the main brand of the GeoPost group, DPD announced in a statement. The re-branding, which should be completed by the end of this year, is being carried out in a phased program covering depots, staff uniforms and the vehicle fleet, with delivery vans bearing a “Bizpak is now DPD” slogan.

The re-branding is designed to benefit from the high international reputation of the DPD brand with values such as reliability, efficiency and customer friendliness.

The parcels company already launched parcel services for Russian exports to Europe using the DPD brand last autumn. The “DPD Classic” service offers door-to-door deliveries of documents and goods up to 31.5kg to countries throughout Europe, with transit times of 2-5 days.

In 2006, the Armadillo Group, a joint venture between GeoPost and Turkey’s Yurtici Kargo, increased revenues by 51 pct to 1.5 billion roubles (EUR 44.2 million). It delivered over 2.8 million parcels for 11,500 customers across Russia, and shipped volumes with a combined total weight of 70,000 tons. The group opened six new branches to extend its network to 22 locations in Russia.

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