Presentation at UK Express Delivery Conference by Claude Begle, DPD/GeoPost.
Contains size of European market, European market share, market shares for UK Benelux, France & Germany, GeoPosts alliances.
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GeoPost (Russia), a subsidiary of La Poste Group (France), acquired Armadilo Business Posylka (Russia), a subsidiary of Swedish Post (Sweden). Specialists notice it is a part of a larger deal proposed to strengthen pan-European operations of La Poste Group. It acquired also Yurtici Kargo (Turkey), Masterlink Express (Poland), BLS Lithuania (Lithuania), BLS Latvia (Latvia), and BLS Estonia (Estonia). Sales of the group of enterprises acquired exceeded euro35mil in 2003.
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Read MoreGeoPost UK is to invest GBP40m (EUR60m) over the next three years in new hubs for its Parceline and Interlink Ireland operations.
The Parceline facility, likely to be built in the Birmingham area, will operate in tandem with the existing Smethwick site and will double current handling capacity of 24,000 parcels an hour. Interlink Ireland’s dated hub in Athlone “will have to be rebuilt by 2006 at the latest,” CEO Kay Phillips told IFW.
Read MoreSweden Post today announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its Baltic-, Poland- and Russia-based parcel delivery and logistics business operations to Geopost, a wholly owned subsidiary of La Poste. Posten AB partly owns the parcel delivery and logistics companies in Poland and Russia and wholly owns the Baltic businesses. The transaction, a consequence of the new board-sanctioned strategy, will positively affect Sweden Post’s net income and cash flows.
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