Tag: Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes enters US personalized postage market with Zazzle alliance

Posted by | Jul 18, 2005 | |

Pitney Bowes Inc. today announced it is launching a customized postage service through a new alliance with Zazzle, the Internet’s leading customized products marketplace. The new service allows customers to create full-color customized stamps using images they upload at the Zazzle website, or a vast collection of images already available on the site, including famous characters from The Walt Disney Company and other special collections. The alliance calls for Pitney Bowes, the world’s leading provider of integrated mailing solutions, to provide the software that manages the postage transaction between the customer and the United States Postal Service.

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Pitney Bowes acquires Danka Canada

Posted by | Jul 1, 2005 | |

Pitney Bowes Inc., one of the world’s largest makers of postal equipment, on Friday said it acquired all the outstanding stock of Danka Canada Inc. for about USD14 million. Danka Canada’s parent, Danka Business Systems PLC, said separately that it sold the unit because it has not been profitable, posting a loss of USD7.7 million on USD35.9 million in sales for the latest fiscal year ended March 31.

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Opinion: Postal metering can overcome VAT hurdles

Posted by | May 5, 2005 | |

With the election being centre stage right now, the new VAT proposals for postal services may have slipped under many people’s radar, but they are set to have a huge impact on 1m European businesses.

Amid the excitement of impending deregulation, emerging private postal operators are lobbying the European Commission, postal regulators and national governments with a view to removing the VAT exemption currently available to the universal service providers. The private postal operators believe that they currently do not operate on a level playing field with Europe’s postal incumbents, as private companies must charge VAT on all products and services.

With an estimated £6.95bn (EUR10bn) of European postal revenue collected through the meter channel and more than 1m mailers using franking machines across Europe, the technical issues associated with collecting VAT through the meter channel must be seriously addressed by policy makers.

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Pitney Bowes applauds introduction of postal reform legislation

Posted by | Mar 18, 2005 | |

Pitney Bowes applauded the introduction of new postal reform legislation by Chairman Susan Collins and Senator Tom Carper, the Committee Democrat who has taken the lead on postal reform issues.

“With the introduction of Senate legislation, we move one step closer to delivering real postal reform that ensures our postal system will be the most efficient and effective that it can be,” said Michael J. Critelli, chairman and CEO of Pitney Bowes. “Having the best Postal Service possible will help everyone who mails — individuals and families for personal correspondence, small businesses that send a few letters and packages a month, and large volume commercial mailers. All of them drive the USD900 billion postal service industry.”

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Pitney Bowes CEO sees bright future for mail and continued ppportunities for growth

Posted by | Mar 10, 2005 | |

Michael J. Critelli, chairman and CEO of Pitney Bowes Inc. told a group of financial analysts this week that the company’s growth in 2005 and beyond will stem from creating and building multiple and diverse growth platforms within the mail and document management market place, rather than a single or handful of very large opportunities. He stated that, “we have extensive, broad-based expertise in these markets as well as a multitude of capabilities, greater than any organization in the world, to take advantage of major trends in the mail and document management space.” Critelli outlined several “strategic assumptions” about the mail stream that underlie the company’s growth strategies by leveraging the growth and diversity of mail. He also discussed the company’s commitment to expanding its value to customers and influencing the future potential for mail and related document management solutions by helping transform postal systems worldwide.

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