Tag: Europe

Pall-Ex is named as Business of the Year

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

Pall-Ex is delighted to announce winning the much coveted Business of the Year Award, at a ceremony for the Leicestershire Business Awards.The evening’s events were attended by representatives from 18 finalist companies from across the region.

The finalists for the award included Pall-Ex, Rushcliffe, and Geosynthetics. There were four rounds of judging before the winners were announced. Competition at this stage was tough. With 20,000 sq ft of storage Geosynthetics, part of the Hansam Group, is regarded as the largest distributor of geosynthetic material in the UK. Essentially they distribute fabrics which are used for soil stabilisation. Rushcliffe Care specialise in care for the elderly, and were finalists for the Success Through People award.

To win Business of the Year, Pall-Ex needed to demonstrate stability and strong reputation within the Leicestershire economy. The company easily exceeded these criteria by recently celebrating a landmark 10 years in business, and by currently assessing opportunities to expand the operation by building another hub in the style of the existing GBP 12 million investment situated in Ellistown, Leicestershire, close to the A50 and M1.. Essentially, Pall-Ex unites 100 member depots from across the UK. These regionally based haulage companies collect freight from their designated postcode areas, destined for other parts of the country or Europe. The freight is then transported to the central Pall-Ex transhipment hub.

At the hub, the freight is sorted by delivery area and assigned to the haulier serving that location for delivery. Next day and economy services are available. Pall-Ex has access to over 7,500 vehicles and more than five million square feet of warehousing in the UK and Europe. The co-ordination of freight collections and deliveries, minimizes mileage and maximises the usage of vehicle capacity. Essentially the Pall-Ex service concept is simple. They provide an organizational solution for cost effective distribution of palletised freight. The scale of the operation however, is breathtaking. Serving every UK postcode, from a 23 acre hub, Pall-Ex has a typical throughput of around 9000 pallets per night.

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Post de-regulation offers reseller opportunities

Posted by | Apr 30, 2007 | |

Deregulation of the postal market will see new and traditional players alike scrabbling to implement mobile devices to survive, according to market watchers at Zebra Technologies.

The loss of the Royal Mail‚s monopoly has resulted in a plethora of delivery companies and courier services entering the industry, fighting to stay ahead of the game in a newly-competitive environment. Zebra is predicting that new entrants to the industry will fail in this market within twelve months if they are not properly equipped, due to the new levels of competition.

In the ‘War of the postie’ it is technology that will help new market players to stay competitive – mobile devices will make or break processes including delivery of registered mail, and collecting returned goods,” said Clive Fearn, vertical marketing manager at Zebra. “It represents a big opportunity for businesses to provide tailored systems to all the big players in Europe. There‚s so much pressure to stay ahead of competitors, it is essential companies are properly equipped to work efficiently, and offer as many services as possible.”

In the last twelve months, Zebra has supplied printers to leading postal operators such as Polish, Portuguese and Hellenic post. The company also works with businesses such as TNT and DHL, and with major postal and private operators across EMEA on projects including the mobile post and electronic stamps.

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Post Office hit list claim

Posted by | Apr 30, 2007 | |

The Welsh Liberal Democrats in Aberavon are calling for the government to publish its post office “hit list”.They claim the list shows post offices threatened with closure following a consultation on their future.

The Liberal Democrats have been campaigning to keep local post offices open.

Their five-point plan would see:
GBP 2 billion invested in post offices.
New branches opening where needed.
Government services continuing to be available at the Post Office.
The Post Office freed from Royal Mail restrictions which will allow it to develop new business.
A new legal requirement placed upon the Government to maintain the local post office network.

Ten post offices have closed in Aberavon between 1999 and 2006.

Under the Government’s plans an average of three to four more post offices per constituency will close.

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Royal Mail and Sony DADC unite to fuse traditional post with digital media

Posted by | Apr 30, 2007 | |

Royal Mail is fighting back against increased competition in the advertising market by launching an innovative concept that fuses traditional post and digital media in partnership with Sony DADC.

The innovation enables companies to personalise content-rich and interactive CDs to an individual’s specific needs and interests by inscribing it with a unique code. This means that a company can include videos and information for a wide range of customers but program it so that content is tailored to individual recipients – making it entirely personal and relevant.

The solution, Personalised Integrated Media, enables customers to view the CD on their PC and deal direct with the business, for example by buying goods or services, at the click of the mouse. And for advertisers, the inscription enables them to monitor customer engagement with the CD and determine its impact.

The Sony DADC technology, Postscribed ID_x0019_, enables companies to add depth and media richness to the brand experience at the same cost of a traditional mailing pack; from 360 degree tours of the product to promotional videos or TV advertisements. The inscription enables precise measurability at all stages of the campaign, monitoring which customers have viewed the Disc, when they engaged (date and time), how often, whether they completed the customer journey or at what stage they fell out.

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An Post and Fortis bid for 5% of banking sector

Posted by | Apr 30, 2007 | |

Postbank, a joint venture with Belgian bank Fortis, will initially operate out of 250 post offices nationally, rising to 1,000 over the next 12 months.

The venture will employ 250 people at the outset, 100 of which are new jobs.

Speaking at the official launch of the euro 112 million venture yesterday, Minister for Communications, Noel Dempsey, said that while the financial services sector in Ireland was already highly populated, there was definitely room for a community-based offering from a group such as An Post.

He said that the service offered by many of Ireland’s existing banks was far from customer friendly and that a new banking offering from An Post was very well-placed to benefit from the positive role post offices already play in many local communities.

According to An Post, 40 per cent of adults visit a post office once a week with more than three quarters visiting once a month and these are exactly the people Postbank is seeking to attract as its customers.

From tomorrow consumers will be able to avail of what Ms Sweeney calls a “very favourable” interest rate on a “very simple” deposit account – exact details of which are to be released later today – and another separate investment product at 250 different post office outlets around the country.

Over the course of the year, and in response to customer demand, the range of products will be expanded to include current accounts, loans, credit cards, ATM services and web-based banking.

Postbank is aiming to have a workforce of 500 within the next three years.

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