Tag: Europe

Royal Mail appoints Stephen Carter as Non Executive Director

Posted by | Aug 30, 2007 | |

Royal Mail today announced that Stephen Carter, Chief Executive of Brunswick Group LLP, has been appointed as a Non Executive Director.

Stephen was Chief Executive of OFCOM between 2003 and 2007 and before that Managing Director of NTL Ltd, the cable, broadband and telecommunications business between 2000 and 2002.

Royal Mail Chairman Allan Leighton said: “I am delighted to welcome Stephen to Royal Mail. He brings a wealth of experience from the worlds of telecoms, marketing and regulation to the Board at a time when we are facing increasing competition from a range of other communications media as well as rival postal operators.”

Stephen is also a Non Executive Director of Travis Perkins plc.

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European air cargo up 4 pct in July 2007

Posted by | Aug 30, 2007 | |

Association of European Airlines European airlines carried 4 pct more cargo last month thanks to good growth on intercontinental routes, the latest monthly figures from the Association of European Airlines (AEA) showed. The figures include parcel shipments carried as belly hold freight but exclude mail.

The 4 pct rise in freight traffic on the 31 AEA member airlines included a 4.4% increase on routes outside Europe, which make up the bulk of air freight traffic.

The major market, Asia Pacific, showed a 1.6 pct rise in traffic, while the North Atlantic, the second-largest trade lane, generated growth of 4.5. pct South America showed a 14.6 pct rise while sub-Saharan Africa traffic grew by 15.2 pct Traffic within Europe was down by 1.8 pct.

Over the first seven months of 2007, total freight traffic for AEA airlines is up by 2.2 pct, with Asia showing a 0.7 pct drop and North America up by 3.2 pct.

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Mobile libraries could offer postal services in the UK

Posted by | Aug 30, 2007 | |

Mobile libraries could be used to supply postal services in Norfolk it emerged last night – as a campaign got under way to fight more damaging cuts to the post office network.

County councillors are to lobby ministers against cuts earmarked for next year, amid fears that between 40 and 60 post offices could be closed and the network reduced to 200.

County Hall is keen to sign up MPs to its campaign to fight a further 17pc cut in the network, unveiled as part of the governments’ “Network Change Programme” in May.

In Norfolk between 1999 and 2005, the number of post offices fell from 354 to 275.

Jon Clemo, development team manager at Norfolk Rural Community Council, which is working with the authority, said using council buildings was part of an approach to create ‘hubs’ and a number of approaches were being developed in the county including a community run shop, in Mileham, near Dereham, a post office in a church, at Newton Flotman, and a satellite post office operating from a kitchen hatch at the village hall at Garveston, near Dereham.

“Its’ vital that people in rural areas maintain access to these services, particularly the most vulnerable members of society,” he said. “There are a number of different ways of delivering that and making use of existing community facilities is a fantastic way of doing this.”

Mobile libraries are definitely an option and we are working with the county council on a project.”

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FEDMA hosts successful seminar on Direct and Interactive Marketing

Posted by | Aug 30, 2007 | |

For the second year running, FEDMA hosted today its popular one-day seminar on direct and interactive marketing to provide professionals, who carry out direct and interactive marketing campaigns, with practical knowledge on the latest and future developments in Europe.

Today’s seminar attracted a very high calibre of speakers including Susanne Hornikel, the owner of Direct Success, Ayca Aytac, Director General of the Turkish Direct Marketing Association, Peter Gustafsson, the CEO of Expericard AB, Alex Walsh, Head of Postal Affairs and Industry Development at UK DMA, and Servane Grisot, Director International Marketing & Communication at SR Teleperformance.

The seminar speakers were selectively chosen in order to ensure that seminar participants gained useful, practical, and concrete knowledge on the direct marketing industry in Europe and beyond, which they will be able to utilize in their professional work.

The seminar covered topics such as the ‘do’s and don’ts’ of expanding into unknown markets, how to correct the image of the contact centre industry, a market analysis of Turkey, how to respond to the increasing pressures on environmental issues and increase response and improve you company’s approval ratings. Finally, Alastair Tempest, the FEDMA Director General, gave an update on the current trends in the direct and interactive marketing industry

“It is exciting to see how the FEDMA seminars have become so popular and established amongst our members. This is the second year we’re running these seminars and they are highly demanded by both our members and non-members – and every time we come back, it is stronger than the last!” said Alastair Tempest after the seminar.

The success of the seminar was reflected by the enthusiastic response to the event and, like the previous seminar held in February, tickets had sold out in days. FEDMA will continue to host the popular FEDMA seminars in 2008, For more information, please contact Anne Marheim Støren

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German cartel office slams regulator approval of Deutsche Post rates

Posted by | Aug 29, 2007 | |

The German cartel office said that regulators’ lenient calculations allow Deutsche Post World Net AG to keep its postal rates unchanged, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, quoting a spokeswoman of the office.

The Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s regulatory authority for postal services, yesterday said it will continue to base its calculations for postal rate approval on the difference between productivity gains and inflation rates.

The regulator sees productivity increasing at a rate of 1.8 pct a year.

The cartel office argued a productivity factor of 1.8 pct is too low, adding Deutsche Post is reducing its costs at a faster pace, according to the newspaper.

It also criticized Deutsche Post’s social payments and wage levels as being unusual in the industry, and urged regulators to include in their calculations foreign postal markets, some of which have significantly lower postal rates.

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