Pitney Bowes has confirmed it is looking to buy mailing subsidiary Sepac from the French diversi fied services group Fimalac for approximately FFr1.45 billion.
Secap provides a range of mail processing equipment, supplies and technology for low- to mid-volume mailers.
Pitney Bowes is pitching emailAngel, an e-mail address correction and forwarding application, as a new online business opportunity for postal organizations.
Pitney execs argue that emailAngel, developed by the company’s docSense business unit, puts a lid on the growing problem of undeliverable e-mail because of changes in e-mail addresses. Typical e-mail churn rates are put at about 25% and upwards of 50% on campuses. Businesses are estimated to pay $20 or more to resolve undeliverable e-mail messages.
Since posts already provide physical change-of-address services, they’re supposed to be suited to handling e-mail changes as well.emailAngel is supposed to work like this. Customers register their change of e-mail address with a postal authority to enable e-mail forwarding. The posts then use that large database of e-mail addresses to provide businesses a means of forwarding undelivered mail for a small fee. Postal outfits can also enter into revenue-sharing partnerships with other businesses such as credit card companies for their database and sell correct e-mail addresses to businesses with a customer’s permission.Pitney says that posts could offer email-Angel under their own brand.Postal outfits implementing email-Angel are supposed to benefit from the added web traffic to cross-sell and up-sell other products and services.For consumers the two key benefits are supposed to be assured message receipt and the knowledge that their e-mail address is lodged in a permission-based network that maintains their privacy.
Read More“Rethinking Strategic Partnerships,” by Michael J. Critelli, Chairman and CEO, Pitney Bowes, is a speech from Post-Expo 2001 in Geneva. “The theme of my remarks today is partnership. The partnership of which I will speak is that among the posts around the world and the industry that provides solutions for mailers and recipients of mail. I will discuss the very different worlds of letter mail and packages during my remarks. I will draw heavily on my learnings as a CEO of an industry participant, and my more-concentrated learnings as co-chair of a Mailing Industry Task Force in the United States. The Task Force was created by the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service to bring the mailing industry together to look at solutions that could be implemented by the Postal Service and the industry without major legislative or regulatory reform,” Critelli says.
Read MorePitney Bowes has completed the acquisition of Bell
& Howell’s International Mail and Messaging Technologies (MMT) business in
Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia, for million in cash. As announced
on April 18, 2001, the company agreed to acquire Bell & Howell’s
International MMT business following governmental approval and works council
consultations.
“This acquisition enables us to better serve the unique needs of our
customers worldwide,” said Michael J. Critelli, chairman and CEO of Pitney
Bowes. “It also extends our presence, reach and market share in non-U.S.
markets. We’ve significantly strengthened our position in areas of great
opportunity such as the German, French and Japanese markets, and enhanced
our overall breadth of coverage — including direct sales and service — in
key growth areas like Belgium and the Netherlands.”
Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) Global Mailing Systems, the world leader in mail and document management technologies, introduced three new Delivery Management Centers. Each of these solutions couples a reliable hardware platform with advanced software that enables customers to manage all of their mail and parcels — inbound, outbound and intra-company. The result is a reduction in shipping costs, the elimination of manual processes, and a heretofore unmatched level of control.
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