Tag: France

Two Subsidiaries of French 3 Suisses International Form Distribution Partnership

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

Two subsidiaries of French mail-order group 3 Suisses International (3SI), local corporate service provider Mondial Relay and shopping website 2xMoinsCher.com have signed a deal to combine their expertise in the field of distribution, it was reported on October 17, 2006.

The partnership will be effective as of October 23, 2006.

Thanks to the deal 2xMoinsCher.com’s customers will be able to use the services provided by Mondial Relay in each of its 3,500 point of sales.

In addition, Mondial Relay will offer easy tracking of high volume of deliveries trough www.mondialrelay.fr website.

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DPD Switzerland introduces international mail service

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

DPD has launched a new service in Switzerland for outbound international mail. Volumes are transferred to parent company La Poste in Paris for worldwide distribution.

DPD Switzerland said that international mail lies outside the monopoly reserved area for Swiss Post. It now offers customers the option of collecting their international mail, and forwarding it to La Poste for sorting and onward distribution.

The French post office subsidiary said it is putting particular focus on offering good value for money. The product’s competitiveness is further increased by its strong international network and one-stop shopping service.

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France's La Poste prepares for battle

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

A recent report to the French Senate on the state of La Poste made depressing reading.
In 1996, it said, the German and French post offices had been more or less on a par. Eight years later, the turnover of the German post office was double that of France’s; its profits were eight times bigger, and internal investment was three times as high.
On top of that, the quality of the German service was improving, with a next-day delivery rate of 90per cent, compared to 75per cent in France.
The difference, of course, was that Germany had privatised and reformed its postal service, while France’s venerable public institution, complete with 330,000 staff and 17,000 bureaux, had stayed stock still.

Last week La Poste’s management unveiled a 700m euro (GBP470m) investment plan -designed to equip the company for the future. The 100,000 postmen and women are to have pocket computers and GPS monitors; there will be 12,000 bicycles with pivoting seats as well as 400 electronic bikes; and staff will take on other jobs like reading gas meters.

The message is clear: once again a French state mammoth is being prepared for the Brussels steeplechase.

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EU to take next step in postal reform, national monopolies must cease by 2009

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

The European Commission will announce the next step in its liberalisation of Europe’s postal services tomorrow, with deliveries of letters under 50 grams open to competition by 2009, said Oliver Drewes, spokesman for EU internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy.

The commission will debate the proposals at its weekly meeting tomorrow before announcing plans to free up the market for letters in Europe, following on from its 2002 directive on parcels and letters over 50 grams.

Currently, historical operators may still hold national monopolies on letters weighing less than 50 grams in Europe.

According to a report in Belgian daily La Libre Belgique, which says it has seen the proposals, the UK, the Netherlands, Scandinavian countries and Germany have been the most successful in terms of ending the monopoly of traditional postal services providers and introducing competition.

The Belgian and French post offices are widely expected to be announced as the worst offenders in liberalising markets.

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France set for battle over postal liberalisation

Posted by | Oct 6, 2006 | |

France is heading for a showdown with Brussels over plans to open up postal services to competition from 2009, setting the scene for a fresh battle over the completion of the European Union’s single market.

Paris aims to water down the postal plans by proposing measures to compensate incumbent mail operators, including La Poste, the French state-owned post office, for loss of their monopoly.

But Deutsche Post, Germany’s privatised post office, is backing the European Commission’s plan to sweep away the last remnants of an era in which postal services are still dominated by state-owned monopolies. Europe’s postal market is worth more than Euros 90bn (Dollars 115bn, Pounds 60bn) a year and employs 5m people.

With the Commission due to unveil its proposals later this month, the looming battle is widely seen as the next test case for Europe’s ability to push through economic reforms and complete the union’s prized internal market for goods and services.

In France the debate risks becoming a political football. As the country heads into a packed political calendar, Paris wants to avoid any threats to its fiercely guarded postal system before presidential, parliamentary and local elections next year.

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