Jean-Paul Bailly, chairman of the French post office, La Poste, said on Saturday that his organisation expects to show a consolidated net profit of around €100m for 2003. La Poste returned to profit last year with a positive net result of €34m. Mr Bailly also confirmed that La Poste’s modernisation programme will involve natural wastage but not redundancies.
Read MoreLa Poste and Claritas have reached an agreement enabling La Poste access to Claritas new mailing lists which are updated from surveys sent to magazine subscribers. Claritas mailin lists comprise 1 million addresses and yeield an annual turnover of EUR 22 million. La Poste deliver 8 billion items of unaddressed mail each year and has a market share of 32% covering 25.5 million households.
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The French post office (La Poste) has renewed its partnership agreement with the US international parcel courier Federal Express (FedEx) for the next 10 years. The first La Poste-Fedex agreement was concluded early in 2001.
Read MoreUnder a new agreement with La Poste of France, SES Global subsidiaries SES Astra and SatLynx will offer satellite capacity and 2-way satellite broadband services for the former’s Cyberkiosque, SES said. The Cyberkiosque booths, located in public areas such as post offices and town halls, are computer terminals that use interactive satellite terminals to connect to the Internet.
Read MoreLa Poste, the French post office, has announced plans to spend €3.4bn on modernising its mail sorting and delivery systems over the next seven years to prepare for the liberalisation of Europe’s postal sector in 2009.
The governing council of state-owned La Poste voted to grant its chairman Jean-Paul Bailly the authority to sign a new 2003-2007 strategic plan with the government.
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