Tag: La Poste

‘Mature’ French market belies trade growth

Posted by | Sep 20, 2004 | |

France has emerged from its economic lull, according to the government, which has upped the 2004 GDP growth forecast to 2.3%. But business leaders are finding it hard to square the country’s new position in the front rank of EU economies with their still struggling bottom lines. “The finance minister talks about 2% growth, ” says Geraud de Chantérac, VP of GeoPost’s French arm, Chronopost France. “We’ve talked to all our competitors and we don’t know where that figure comes from.” Express operators facing little vitality in the domestic market are targeting international services for growth. “The domestic market is very mature, ” says Eric Jacquemet, MD of TNT France. “But the international market is growing by more than 5% a year and we are growing at an even faster rate.” TNT is the third largest operator in France’s international express market, just below Chronopost’s 18.5%. DHL is the clear market leader, with 36% of the market.

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French postal union fear job cuts in La Poste shake-up

Posted by | Sep 17, 2004 | |

According to France‘s postal unions, the proposed overhaul of the French post office network could result in the closure of up to 6,000 post offices. The French postal services operator, La Poste, is carrying out the review on the orders of the French government, which wants the state-owned operator to reduce its running costs. At present La Poste has a total of 17,000 post offices and sub-post offices.

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Toshiba Europe wins 66 mln eur order from French postal service

Posted by | Sep 16, 2004 | |

Toshiba Corp said its German subsidiary, Toshiba Europe GmbH, has won a contract worth roughly 66 mln euro or 9 bln yen to provide La Poste, the French postal service, with an advanced mail-processing system. Under the terms of the contract, Toshiba Europe will deliver up to a total of 100 units of mail-processing equipment that will promote increased efficiency in mail delivery, with the ability to process more than 30,000 pieces of mail an hour, Toshiba said in a statement.

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French post office opens Europe’s largest sorting office

Posted by | Sep 15, 2004 | |

Jean-Paul Bailly, the chairman of the French post office, La Poste, yesterday opened the organisation’s new mail-sorting office in northern Paris. The new facility is the biggest of its kind in Europe, capable of processing 5 million items a day from eight of the French capital’s 20 arrondissements. La Poste’s mail director, Christian Kozar, has stressed that no other sorting office will close as a result of new centre’s launch. Its aim, he said, is next-day delivery for nine out of 10 letters by 2010.

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French postal unions call for strike

Posted by | Sep 14, 2004 | |

The three biggest unions of La Poste, the French post office – the postal and telecoms branches of FO, CGT and SUD – have urged its employees to join in a day of action on September 21 in support of jobs and against La Poste’s dismantling and post office closures. The protest comes in the run-up to the French parliamentary debate this autumn on the French postal services reform bill, which incorporates into French law the European Union’s directives on postal service liberalization. The proposed legislation also provides for the creation of a postal bank in France.

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