Tag: La Poste

France to allow post office to sell insurance

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

France is set to authorise post office operator La Poste to sell property insurance through its banking subsidiary, Banque Postale, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday.

“I am authorising the post office to set up insurance mechanisms, insurance services which will allow all of us to insure our car or our house with the post office,” she told France 3 television in an interview.

The authorisation comes as the government prepares to end the monopoly held by the post office and savings banks on so-called Livret A accounts, one of France’s most popular savings products.

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E-BOX is condemned by the TGI of Paris but it is La Poste which appeals

Posted by | Apr 22, 2008 | |

La Poste initiated a legal action against E-Box on 6 June 2006 and requested the cancellation of trade marks arguing the similarity to La Poste brands and claiming it could create confusion to the consumers. La Poste also requested EUR 215,000 for compensation.
On 11 March 2008, after 2 years of legal procedures, the Court of Justice issued its decision (This sentence is provisional since one of the parts can still appeal):

The tribunal:
– Condemns E-BOX for counterfeiting by imitation of the following brands: ’agence postale rapide ebox’’, agence postale jaune’’, agence postale orange’’,’’agence postale erte’’, ‘’point poste jaune’’, ‘’point poste orange’’, and ‘’point poste vert’’. E-BOX must pay to La Poste EUR 20,500.
– Declares inadmissible the counterclaim of EBOX against La Poste

In revenge the tribunal:
– Don’t approve the nullity of the ’agence postale rapide e-box’’ brand
– Declares the validity of the following E-BOX brands: ‘’post ebox’’, “e-box, l’ autre poste’’, et ‘’e-box, une autre idée de la poste’’.

La Poste decided to appeal to this sentence.

La Poste group announced the objective to EUR 850 million net profits for 2008. Even if E-Box “contribution” passed from EUR 20,000 to EUR 215,000, it will remain marginal in the accounts of La Poste.

Therefore, the action of the La Poste only aims to ensure the monopoly of the words “poste”, postal’, ‘postale’, ‘agence postale’ and seek to preserve the monopoly of the postal services in France.

Can be possible a healthy competition in the French postal market, where ARCEP is the regulator and guarantor, if the services suggested by competitor operators of La Poste cannot be understood by the consumers as being of postal nature?

By collateral effect, the continuation of legal actions from La Poste give value to E-BOX trade marks containing the word ‘poste’. But E-Box’s interest is to support the implementation of the European directives related to the liberalization of the postal markets and the creation of a competition model.

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NetApp delivers for Belgian Post Office

Posted by | Apr 21, 2008 | |

The Belgian Post Office recently collaborated with NetApp for its data backup and archival. To manage this data, the post office is switching to a virtual infrastructure developed by NetApp in combination with conventional physical tape. In doing this, the post office is keeping pace with the current trend of virtualization in the storage environment, minimizing risk, and maximizing its return on investment in IT spend.

Because of the increasing quantity of data and activity on the post office’s network, implementing a more flexible system became a critical business need. After researching its options, the Belgian Post Office decided to partner with NetApp to create an archival and backup system that took advantage of the flexibility of disk-to-disk speed and flexibility and integrated with its existing tape infrastructure. The resulting system allows for near-constant availability of backed up data, more robust disaster recovery, and the ability to grow the system in the future with less overall cost.

The NetApp NearStore Virtual Tape Library is a disk-to-disk backup appliance that appears like a tape library to a backup software application but provides the superior speed and reliability of disk technologies. Developed specifically to address the requirements of backup administrators, NearStore VTL solutions increase the performance and reliability of backups, simplify backup management, and reduce D2D storage costs by up to 67 pct through the use of high-performance disk compression.

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John Acton appointed Managing Director of DPD

Posted by | Apr 18, 2008 | |

The supervisory board of DPD GmbH, Aschaffenburg, announces the appointment of Briton John Acton (43) to Managing Director of the international provider of standard and express parcel services. After the departure of CEO Hans Fluri in March this means that the top management of the international franchise organisation has been completed from within the company’s own ranks. At the head of the DPD franchise system Mr Acton will form a two-man team with Arnold Schroven, who is also at the helm of DPD GeoPost (Germany).

In addition to his appointment as Managing Director of DPD Mr Acton is Chief Marketing and Strategic Accounts Officer at GeoPost, and is a member of the Direction Générale of GeoPost

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DPD announces opening of a new branch in Stavropol, Russia

Posted by | Apr 17, 2008 | |

DPD in Russia (Armadillo Group) has opened a new branch in Stavropol, South Region.
The branch is located in the industrial area near Staromarievkoe Chaussee, in the Eastern part of the city. With the area of 427 sq. meters the capacity of the terminal is over 5,000 parcels a day. The investment to the new branch amounted to over 1 million Roubles. The branch network of DPD in Russia covering all Russia’s regions has now increased to 27 branches linked together by a unique linehaul network as well as by a common IT system.
The new branch offers a complete range of services of DPD in Russia based on express forwarding: renowned DPD BizPak service, a unique domestic just–in-time delivery solution with unmatched financial guarantees, as well as other parcel and freight delivery services including domestic DPD Avia, DPD Economy, DPD Classic, Full Truck services, complemented by DPD Classic international delivery service.

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