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Itella to buy the Swedish Logistics Company PS Logistics AB

Posted by | Jul 11, 2007 | |

Itella is to buy the Swedish logistics company PS Logistics AB. The turnover of the company, located in Borås, is around SEK 80 million. It has 22 employees, whose positions won’t be affected by this deal. The vendor is a holding company owned by the company’s Managing Director Stefan Pettersson and Transekspedicija of Lithuania.

PS Logistics AB provides freight warehousing, storage and contract logistics services. The deal will strengthen the position of Itella Logistics AB in Sweden, particularly in freight bound for the Baltic States and Eastern Europe. The operations of Itella Logistics in Sweden will also be expanded to cover contract logistics.

“The home market of Itella Logistics covers the Baltic area, where we are currently one of the leading logistics companies. Buying PS Logistics will improve our market position in Sweden by strengthening our current business and by introducing new business areas. At the same time, we will strengthen our Baltic operations,” states Joni Sundelin, Vice President, Itella Logistics.

The company will transfer to the ownership of Itella Logistics on 1 August 2007.

In Sweden, the Itella Group currently comprises the transport and freight forwarding company Itella Logistics AB and the information logistics company Itella Information AB.

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Itella: 85 million eLetters sent annually

Posted by | Jul 4, 2007 | |

In Finland, circa 85 million eLetters are sent annually. The users of this service consider the Itella eLetter to be easy to use, inexpensive and reliable. It is, hence, mainly used for sending invoices. The concept, used since the early 1990s in Finland, is also now being exported.

With the help of Itella’s eLetter service, companies send documents, for example invoices, customer bulletins or salary statements, to Itella in electronic format. Itella Information then prints and places the documents in envelopes and sends them, depending on the format that the recipient wants, to their destination either by post in paper format or electronically for example to Itella’s eTransactions service, Netposti. The eLetter service speeds up the flow of information from the sender to the recipient, resulting in the sender’s organisation functioning more efficiently. The routine work processes, such as fulfilment and posting, are carried out by Itella in a data secure manner, and it only remains for the client company to produce the content.

According to the customer satisfaction survey commissioned by Itella Information Oy in May, the users of eLetters are highly satisfied with the service: it is considered easy to use, inexpensive and reliable. 80 pct of the respondents rated the eLetter as “extremely good” or “excellent” for ease of use. 75pct considered the eLetter to be a service that matched their needs well and 76pct were satisfied with the quality of the printing and mailing services.

Almost 70 pct of the companies and organizations surveyed use the eLetter for sending invoices. Of the users of the service, around 50pct send salary statements and circa 25 pct other customer communications, such as bulletins and customer letters.

The objective of the customer satisfaction survey was to chart customer opinion about the eLetter service and to find out about the selection criteria for its use. 120 business customers using the eLetter service took part in the survey and it was conducted via telephone interviews.

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Itella To Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions By 10 Per Cent By 2012

Posted by | Jun 15, 2007 | |

The national postal operators of Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway and Malta are committed to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions by 10 per cent in the next five years. Greenhouse gas emissions, i.e. carbon dioxide, represent 70 per cent of postal operators’ total environmental impact. Half of these CO2 emissions result from the use of road transport. PostEurop, the association of European public postal operators, coordinates the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programme. Itella, Finland’s largest transport company, plays a major role in the development of pro-environmental logistics. The key goal of Itella’s environmental strategy is to reduce vehicle carbon dioxide emissions caused by the use of fossil traffic fuels. Methods of reducing fuel consumption include efficient route planning, combining transports, and training in ecological driving methods. Alternative fuels tested in use include electricity, natural gas and biodiesel. Energy consumption, recycling and waste management will also be enhanced in buildings while new environment-friendly services are developed, for instance in electronic communications. Itella has had excellent experiences of using biodiesel in test vehicles. As the first Finnish transport company to do so, Itella began the related trials in January 2007. The share of biodiesel has been increased from 10 per cent to 80 percent. Starting next week Itella will experiment with 100 per cent biodiesel. According to research results the production and use of biodiesel causes up to 40 per cent less CO2 emissions than ordinary fuel. Itella’s fleet in Finland comprises over 5,500 vehicles, covering around 100 million kilometres per year. In 2006, Itella’s carbon dioxide emissions totalled 98,000 tonnes in Finland, i.e. some 0.2 per cent of the CO2 emissions of the entire country, resulting from the use of fossil fuels in vehicles and the production of power and heat purchased for use on premises. On average, the delivery of one letter from sender to recipient produces 36 grammes of carbon dioxide, whereas an ordinary passenger car emits the same amount on a 200-metre journey.

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PostEurop 5th IT Forum 2007

Posted by | Jun 5, 2007 | |

The PostEurop IT Forum takes place once a year to spur exchanges in the field of new information and communication technologies among postal operators across Europe.

Innovative IT Solutions will be crucial for the future success of European postal companies. At the PostEurop 2007 IT Forum experts from all across the industry will discuss the latest developments and IT solutions in light of increasing electronic substitution and deregulation. The IT Forum will be hosted by Deutsche Post World Net and take place in the DHL Innovation Centre near Bonn, Germany.

Among the topics to be discussed will be hybrid mail solutions, RFID tags, e-government solutions, digital franking and other hot issues for electronic postal services. Speakers come from postal operators such as CTT Correios de Portugal, DPWN, La Poste Group, Poste Italiane and Itella, and from international consultancies like Accenture and Strategia Group.

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Finland Post becomes Itella

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

As of 1 June 2007, the name of Finland Post Corporation will become Itella Corporation. At the same time, the entire Group will become the Itella Group. The Post’s consumer customers in Finland will not be affected by the change as they will continue to be served under the name “Posti”.

The change of name is based on the fact that, during recent years, the Finland Post has changed from a company conducting only postal services to one offering versatile data and material flow management services.

This change is also required by the internationalisation of the Finland Post Corporation. In addition to Finland, the Group now operates in eight Northern European countries, accounting for 23 per cent of the net turnover. Companies and other organisations account for 95 per cent of the Group’s turnover.

The Finnish consumer will hardly notice the change of name. In the future, post offices, mail carriers, mailboxes, consumer websites and communication and marketing directed at consumers will bear the familiar and trusted name of “Posti”.

Since the beginning of 2007, the Finland Post has used the Itella marketing name in all Group services offered to, and operations directed at, companies and organisations. Finnish consumers will be served under the name “Posti”. The change of the name of the parent company and the entire Group to Itella will also support the brand overhaul that has already taken place.

The names of the company’s subsidiaries will also be standardised during 2007 in all nine countries. Logistics’ subsidiaries will use the name Itella Logistics, and Information Logistics’ subsidiaries will use Itella Information Logistics.

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