Tag: Europe

Royal Mail rejig creates one of the UK's largest print tenders

Posted by | Jan 5, 2007 | |

Royal Mail Group has launched a tender for its entire print requirement, worth up to GBP400m after restructuring its print management division.
A new unit of about 25 staff, Royal Mail Document Management Services, went into operation on 1 January to handle the Post Office operator’s complete print output.
Royal Mail has also advertised a four-year print management contract worth up to GBP100m per year as part of a bid to streamline its current roster of 79 UK-based print suppliers.
The postal giant is planning that the contract, one of the biggest print tenders ever to reach the UK market, will be won by either a single company or a consortium of firms.
Print involved will include point-of-sale, posters, business documents, labels and internal publications, while other functions, such as finishing, storage, fulfilment, scanning and indexing, repro and digital archiving, are also involved.
Print management sources have suggested that only business process outsourcing giants Williams Lea or Astron would have the financial clout to take on such a large contract alone.
The tender was published in December and includes work for Royal Mail’s three UK operations: its letters business, the Post Office’s retail and financial services, and Parcelforce Worldwide.
Until the contract is set up in late spring or early summer, the new unit will handle all Royal Mail’s print production requirements itself.

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Why postal privatisation delivers

Posted by | Jan 4, 2007 | |

Who would have though that this time last year, it was predicted that Royal Mail would lose over £600m worth of business by 2008, as a result of the postal market opening to competition on January 1 2005.

The claim, which could almost have come out of Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton’s very own spin-machine, was actually made in an independent study by Corporate Mailing Matters.

The research, in which 300 top UK business mailers were quizzed on how they expected volumes to shift after deregulation, claimed 17 per cent of the market would to move to alternative providers, with corporate mailers shifting swathes of business to force price reductions and service benefits.

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Post Danmark buys 51 per cent of Transportgruppen

Posted by | Jan 4, 2007 | |

Post Danmark A/S and Transportgruppen A/S have entered into an agreement concerning the purchase by Post Danmark of 51 per cent of the shares in Transportgruppen by direct placement. The shares will be acquired with effect from 1 January 2007.

By this agreement, Post Danmark will become the most complete carrier in the Danish market. A cooperative venture with the carriers of Transportgruppen will enable us to offer our customers a total concept covering courier shipments, parcels and mixed cargo of all sizes and of a high quality as hitherto. In addition, it will make it possible for us to offer a range of new products, says Carsten Dalbo, Deputy Executive, Post Danmark.

The purchase of the shares in Transportgruppen will give Post Danmark access to a finely meshed and efficient nationwide network for the distribution of goods. In the same way as Post Danmark, Transportgruppen has cargo centres at its disposal at Brøndby and Taulov in addition to 80,000 sq. metres of warehouse facilities in Copen-hagen and Århus. Via its carriers, Transportgruppen has access to 18 regional cargo terminals and 900 rolling units. In 2006, Transportgruppen generated a turnover of approx. DKK 280 million and some 1,100 people are employed with its carriers and in the company.

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Postcomm revokes licences

Posted by | Jan 4, 2007 | |

Postcomm has today issued a notice to revoke the licence held by Deutsche Post Global Mail (UK) Ltd.

The postal services provided by Deutsche Post Global Mail (UK) Ltd will continue under the licence granted to DHL Global Mail (UK) Limited on 29 December 2006.

Postcomm has today issued a notice to revoke a licence held by Red Star Parcels Limited (trading as Lynx Mail).

The revoked licence has already been replaced with a new version, granted on 3 November 2006. This licence takes into account the new licensing framework introduced on 1 January 2006, when the UK postal services market was opened to full competition.

Postcomm has today issued a notice to revoke the licence held by Deutsche Post Global Mail (UK) Ltd.

The postal services provided by Deutsche Post Global Mail (UK) Ltd will continue under the licence granted to DHL Global Mail (UK) Limited on 29 December 2006.

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Hungarian Post to cut number of offices

Posted by | Jan 4, 2007 | |

According to daily Nepszabadsag information, Hungarian Postal Service (MP) plans to get rid of more than 1000 of its 2841 post offices. The ones in small villages are planned to be integrated into a franchise network, while the superfluous offices in larger towns are to be closed down in 2007. The transformation has to be finished before 2009, the year of the liberalization of the postal services market. In the future, the postal business is likely to become a part-time job and done in e.g. a restaurant or a grocery. The company hopes the cuts will save billions of forints and will help MP to maintain competitiveness and profitability. The company is satisfied with the mobile postal service, which is operating in 950 villages and will go on expanding and developing it.

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