Tag: France

Chronopost expects growth in Christmas parcel volumes

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

The rise of Chronopost activity is carried by the excellent prospect for the on line sales. It is expected that Christmas sales on Internet will pass the 3 billion euros (against 2,5 billion euros in 2006) and more than 20 million online purchaser (Source: Fevad). It is estimated that each online french purchaser will spend on average 413 euros on the Web in this end of the year (Source: Forrester Research).

Express carrier Chronopost is expecting strong growth in parcel volumes this Christmas as it benefits from the growth of e-commerce sales in France.

The La Poste subsidiary said it expects to deliver a total of 6.5 million parcels during December, with weekly growth rates of 15 pct in the first week of December, 25 pct in the second, and 45 pct in the third.

To cope with the additional volumes, Chronoposts has set up 650 additional delivery rounds a day during the peak period and more than 100 additional linehaul connections. It will deliver parcels throughout Saturday, December 22 as well as on December 24.

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TNT Express France expects boom in online order deliveries

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

TNT Express France expects to triple its home delivery volumes this Christmas thanks to the e-commerce boom in France, and handle a total of about six million express parcels in December.

For the Christmas period this year, the number of online orders is expected to be much higher than for the same period in 2006. The French association Fevad (Federation of e-commerce and mail order trading) expects a turnover of EUR 3 billion in online shopping in France this year which would amount to a 22 pct increase compared to Christmas 2006. Some traders are expecting a tenfold increase in online sales.

TNT Express France, which is the delivery partner for about 150 online retail sites, said it has adapted the capacity and resources of its operational network to cope with the strong rise in the quantity of parcels to be delivered to consumers.

TNT will ensure express delivery of presents on Saturday 22 December as well as Monday 24 December. As part of the special service, TNT will offer a 24-hour delivery service until Christmas Eve.

This innovative service ensures maximum comfort especially when it comes to home delivery, TNT said. If consumers are not at home at the time of delivery, the parcels are automatically transported to the next Relais Colis parcel drop-off point. The recipient is then informed by SMS where the item can be picked up. TNT uses a network of 3,800 Relais Colis networks.

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DPD chooses BroadVision

Posted by | Dec 10, 2007 | |

BroadVision, Inc., a global provider of e-business solutions, announced today that DPD selected BroadVision(R) CAS(TM) (Commerce Agility Suite(TM)) 8.1 as the web platform and application for global deployment of its new Internet presence www.dpd.com and the new e-commerce applications.

“We have developed DPD from a company serving domestic markets to a real international organization. We’re focusing on expanding the network and offering our customers a homogeneous product portfolio with international products and fully integrated services,” says Dr. Pia-Maria Zecevic, Director Communications of DPD. “BroadVision enables us to create a multi-language site with an integrated system and application architecture. Ease of web content management; reusable components; and reduced maintenance and administrative overhead made the decision easy to go with BroadVision’s solution suite.”

“We are pleased that DPD, a leading European parcel provider, selected our innovative BroadVision Commerce Agility Suite as its web platform,” said Andrea Rubei, General Manager of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), BroadVision, Inc. “BroadVision Commerce Agility Suite is a proven integrated platform for strategic companies that want superior flexibility, scalability and cost-effective components.”

DPD also chose BroadVision Global Services to implement the project.

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Air Contractors bags French post

Posted by | Dec 5, 2007 | |

AIR Contractors has acquired French postal provider Europe Airpost.

Exclusive negotiations were completed on 30 November between Air Contractors and La Poste.

A number of formalities, including the privatisation approval of EAP will now follow. These are expected to be completed by early February 2008.

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Algeria Post Chooses Bull for the Modernization of its Information Systems

Posted by | Dec 4, 2007 | |

As part of the program of reforms undertaken by the Algeria Post Office (Algeria Poste) to improve and extend the services it offers, modernizing its information systems and making them more secure has become an increasingly vital imperative.

To achieve these aims, Algeria Poste has chosen to work with Bull – the European information systems architect to support the company in upgrading its information systems, and so successfully strengthen its policy of delivering ever more innovative solutions for its customers, with their constantly evolving requirements.

As one of Algeria Poste’s partners of choice, Bull has once again strengthened its position with the recent delivery of a high-availability hardware and software platform based on its NovaScale 7320 range of servers. This high-performance platform enables operations relating to the full range of Algeria Poste’s services to be processed uninterrupted, in real time.

With this new platform, Algeria Poste’s is able to offer new services to its customers, including, in particular: the possibility of opening a new CCP (postal check) account at a local post office, with no need for a preliminary application to the national postal order center; decentralization of CNEP (banking) operations, which are now available in all post offices; widespread computerization of all postal establishments with the aim of moving towards the development of an IPS (International Postal System) service, giving customers the possibility of tracking the movements and delivery of their mail via the Internet, as well as enabling the creation of a single, multipurpose kiosk.

Bull has been partnering Algeria Poste since 1974, applying its technical expertise and know-how to the development of the post office’s IT systems.

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