Tag: Royal Mail

Key Note has just released an 85 page market assesment of business postal services in the UK.
The assessment report examines the market as it stands, focusing on the part of the industry for which licences are required. The report looks at how the mail markets operate on an international level, and suggesting how the market will develop in the future. Extensive research was conducted using information from the regulatory body Postcomm, as well as individual companies and European and international information sources. Key Note also invited key industry practitioners to take part in a virtual roundtable, to elicit views from within the industry itself.
According to Postcomm’s 2007 Competitive Market Review, published in October 2007, the UK addressed mail market was worth around GBP 6.6bn in 2006/2007, a figure, Postcomm confirms, that is largely based on The Royal Mail’s revenues.
However, Key Note estimates that the market size as slightly higher for that period, looking at The Royal Mail’s reported revenues and factoring in an estimated size for Royal Mail competitors, to arrive at a market size of GBP 6.9bn for 2006/2007. The Royal Mail Holding’s annual report for its 2007/2008 financial year shows revenues for its letters business as GBP 6,830m, a 0.3 pct decrease in 2006/2007 revenues (reported as GBP 6.8bn, rather than the GBP 6.6bn cited as market size by Postcomm in its Competitive Market Review). Key Note observed that, while The Royal Mail’s revenue had declined slightly, revenue from competitors has risen to compensate, which means that the market size remains at GBP 6.9bn.