Tag: Europe

Strike at Poczta Polska beneficial to competition

Posted by | Nov 26, 2006 | |

The strike organised by employees of Poczta Polska Polish mail was a gift from the heavens for rival companies, which are hiring new staff and opening new branches in order to make the best of the situation while it lasts. Rafal Brzoska, CEO of Poczta Polska rival InPost, admits that his firm is unable to cope with the immense demand. Over the last 10 days, the company has increased its workforce by 150 people and is planning to open four new outlets in the next two weeks. According to Brzoska, it still needs to hire from 350 to 850 new staff. As long as the strike continues, Poczta Polska will lose more and more customers to the competition. To make matters worse, some of them can be expected to claim compensation for incurred losses. Such a move is being considered by e-shop Stereo.pl, which had to switch to more costly courier mail services in order to deliver its goods to buyers.

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Romanian Courier Cargus eyes boost in 2007 Profit, Turnover

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

Romanian courier services provider Cargus expects a rise in its gross profit and turnover next year on the back of rising clients portfolio, a senior official told SeeNews.
“For 2007 we project a turnover of more than 25 million euro (USD32 million) and a profit of more than three million euro. The growth will be supported by the rise in the number of the clients and the widening of the services we offer,” Cargus vice-president Carmina Dumitrescu told SeeNews in a recent interview.
Cargus projects a gross profit of 2.1 million euro for the current year on an estimated turnover of 20 million euro, Dumitrescu said. The company reported a 15.3 million euro in turnover for 2005, and a gross profit of 2.46 million euro.
“Currently, Cargus has a 35% market share in Romania and up to 10% from the [country’s] international courier market,” Dumitrescu added.

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Postcomm today began a 30 day consultation on the proposed issue of a new long term licence to Mercury International Limited.

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

Postcomm today began a 30 day consultation on the proposed issue of a new long term licence to Mercury International Limited.

Under the new licensing framework that took effect from 1 January 2006, Mercury International Limited’s licence would:

* allow it to provide all types of postal service;
* be issued for a rolling ten year period;
* require the company to comply with codes of practice on mail integrity (safety and security of the mail) and common operational procedures (designed to ensure the multi-operator market owrks well in practice).

The consultation document and draft licence are available on the Mercury International Limited consultation page of Postcomm’s website at www.psc.gov.uk. Printed copies are available from Postcomm at Hercules House, 6 Hercules Road, London, SE1 7DB. The closing date for responses is 24 December 2006.

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PPA highlights critical importance of mail channel

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

PPA has highlighted the continued importance of the mail channel to publishers’ business models and future viability, as part of its response to the postal regulator’s Strategy Review. The findings of the review will help Postcomm frame its regulatory strategy in the lead up to 2010 and beyond.

In its response, PPA said that under a status quo scenario, continued overall growth in mail volumes was projected from the publishing sector. However, given the price sensitivity of magazine traffic it stressed that this growth was dependent on Postcomm ensuring that any changes, especially changes in pricing structures, were manageable for users both in terms of scale and timeframes.

PPA said it was supportive of Postcomm’s vision for achieving effective competition, of which the key elements will be customer choice, product development and innovation, and reducing the barriers to entry.

In its response PPA also took the opportunity to highlight publishers’ serious concerns about Royal Mail’s plans to introduce zonal pricing, indicating that it was likely to have a significant impact on publishers’ business models and could also significantly curtail the development of competition in the postal market.

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Royal Mail predicts record breaking online Christmas

Posted by | Nov 23, 2006 | |

Royal Mail expects to deliver a record breaking 100 million items ordered online this Christmas – 30 million more than the same period last year.

The increase in deliveries reflects a predicted online shopping boom this festive season, with an average of GBP4 million being spent across the country every hour in the run up to Christmas. IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) predicts GBP7 billion will be spent online in the ten weeks leading up to Christmas day.

Catherine Campbell, Head of Multi-channel Retail at Royal Mail, said: “Online retail continues to grow at a phenomenal rate and the predicted GBP7 billion spend represents a record 40 per cent increase on the GBP5 billion spent online in the same period in 2005.

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