The High Court will give judgment today in the row over An Post’s decision to have mail stamped with a Fianna Fáil slogan. Labour Party Senator Joe Costello is seeking an interlocutory injunction restraining An Post from attaching any political slogan to postal packets sent by members of the public through the mail.
Read MoreNightline launched into the competitive domestic Irish parcels market last April, as a diversification from its traditional international freight and express operation.
Its growth strategy has been twofold. Firstly, it has sought to win the business of dissatisfied customers from rival operators through service delivery, while secondly it has approached companies with distribution that deliver in–house, and pitched them to a tailored out-sourced solution.
Having spent the past 15 years building up its franchise presence in Ireland, interlink now has the network of customers to sell from the wider menu of services available through parent company, La Poste.
With 31 franchisees in Eire, company COO, Connor O’Neill says: “We are practically franchised up!” However since January, three new operations have started in N. Ireland taking the total there to four, and O’Neill sees that market is a key area for growth in the coming yea he expects to see last year’s revenue for Ireland grow from18-19 million euros to 22 million euros.
Senator Joe Costello of the Labour Party has asked the High Court for an injunction restraining An Post from attaching any political slogan to postal packets sent by members of the public.
He is objecting to a contract between An Post and Fianna Fáil under which post is stamped with the words: “Fianna Fáil, the republican party – a lot done – more to do”, over the three-month period, March to May 2002.
DFDS Transport in the UK and Ireland has reversed the downward trend in the transport industry for 2001 results by announcing annual profits of GBP 3.4 million, 193 per cent higher than the previous year. The profit was earned from an increase in revenues to GBP 283 million and a growth in individual consignments to nearly 800,000, making DFDS one of the fastest-growing transport organizations in the UK and Ireland.
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