Tag: La Poste

2007 The first Euromed Postal Convention

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Euromed Postal will gather postal-sector players from countries across the European Union and around the southern and eastern Mediterranean rim.Its top priorities will include:

• improving postal-service operation and efficiency to support development and promote economic integration across the Euro-Med area,

• promoting the key role that postal services as a whole play in their countries,

• encouraging cooperation.

Euromed Postal will mark the launching of a platform for exchanging points of views in order to build a network of efficient operators.

The convention will be held on 9-10 July 2007 in Marseilles

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Postal Professionals Gather for Forum in St. Petersburg

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

The growing competition that traditional postal services face against new information technologies, the liberalization of the industry and its survival in the internet era are all topics set to be discussed in St. Petersburg starting Tuesday, when postal industry professionals from around the world gather at the Pochtovaya Troika event.

The postal industry forum, which ends Thursday, is held every two years and this year, organizers say, the event will be particularly significant for the industry as it is held between two important international events — the Strategic Conference in Dubai of the year 2006 and the Nairobi Congress — scheduled for 2008.

The forum’s program is planned in such a way as to become a logical follow-up to discussions and debates that are expected to start during the Strategic Conference in Dubai; in addition, it is a part of the communication plan of the Strategic Planning Group of the UPU, chaired by the Russian Federation, the website continues.

For the first time, this year the forum will become “strategic,” which will be reflected in the event’s agenda, Russian Minister for Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Reiman — due to take part in the forum’s opening ceremony — said in a welcome note to guests and participants of Pochtovaya Troika.

With the development of new information technologies including the internet, communication through the means of the simple letter has increasingly become a thing of the past. But contrary to the popular belief that the post service will be obsolete in the foreseeable future, industry experts are positive and say postal services will always find a market.

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La Poste launches “Holiday Pack”

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Due for the start of the holiday season in France, La Poste has launched new products for the summer.

The Holiday Pack includes:

• Post lockers from 1 day to 2 months, depending on the absence period.
• Pack of special discounts with 7 companies in different services e.g. renting a car, sport and traveling magazines etc.

The ‘Holiday Pack’ is available in all post offices with a unique cost of €18.

La Poste has also launched a new set of seasonal stamps which are available in a 10 stamp box. The stamps are also available on-line.

Postal cards are delivered through MMS – (a service which is part of the agreement with Orange SFR). The customer can send through MMS a picture from the mobile plus the message to be included and the address of the recipient. La Poste will print and delivery the post card physically.

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La Poste Real Estate: New managing director

Posted by | Jun 13, 2007 | |

Philippe Lazare, Executive vice-president of La Poste, managing director of La Poste National Scale and Territorial development (“Grand Public et du Développement Territorial”) and chairman of La Poste Real Estate (“Poste Immo”), named Cristian Cleret as managing director of La Poste Real Estate (Poste Immo) from september 2007.

Poste Immo is a subsidiary company of La Poste group, dedicated to the real state business. Poste Immo was formed in 2005, when La Poste conceded 3,877 properties (buildings, offices and factorings) to this company. La Poste had registered till that moment a total of 4,577 properties.

In the practice, Post Immo allows La Poste to recuperate the VAT (Value Added Tax) of the real estate investments.

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Spain's Seur to invest EUR 270 million by 2010

Posted by | Jun 13, 2007 | |

Seur, partly owned by France’s GeoPost (La Poste), is to invest EUR 270 million in new technology and a new corporate image over the next three years.

President Manuel Valle told the Cinco Días business newspaper in Spain that the company’s vehicles, franchises, uniforms would be given a brand new look; over EUR 70 million would be invested in IT systems and another EUR 50 million improving mail technology.

Seur would grow by about 10 pct this year, said Valle, having had a strong first four months of the year (EUR 200 million of revenues from January to end April). “The image we want to create is one that is modern and trustworthy. And technology is one of the pillars of our business,” he is quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Seur has 85 franchises in Spain and 300 other sales points.

Earlier this year, GeoPost, La Poste’s international express subsidiary, raised its stake in Spain’s Seur group to almost 20 pct through their joint venture, Seur-GeoPost, buying Seur’s Santander franchise. It owns 60 pct of the joint venture.

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