Tag: Royal Mail

GLS opens logistics centre in Hungary

Posted by | Mar 29, 2007 | |

General Logistics System has opened a new 5,000-sqm logistics centre in Hungary’s Alsónémedi.

GLS, headquartered in Amsterdam, launched constructions last June and spent a total of EUR 6.2 million to finish the facility.

The new unit of GLS Hungary operates with a staff of 100 employees and can deliver 12 million packages a year, business daily Világgazdaság said.

The logistics centre will give home to the Central European headquarters of GLS, where they will co-ordinate Czech and Slovakian subsidiaries from.

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Royal Mail picks print manager shortlist for GBP 400m contract

Posted by | Mar 29, 2007 | |

Royal Mail Group has decided on shortlists for the various lots in the massive GBP 400m print management tender it launched at the end of December.
Almost 40 companies have been informed that they are on the shortlists of bidders invited to submit detailed tenders for four lots worth up to GBP 100m per year.

Bidders are now working on submitting full price tenders for the work either individually or as part of consortia before a deadline understood to be around 25 April. The tender process is expected to be completed in the summer.
Royal Mail declined to reveal the names of companies involved, although it said that more than 100 companies submitted expressions of interest in the initial stages.

Top print management firms who are understood to have bid for major parts of the contract include Communisis, Adare, HH Associates, Xerox, RR Donnelley Global Document Services (formerly Astron), AccessPlus and TPF Group. It is so far uncertain which of these have been invited to submit detailed tenders.

One notable exception from the bidders is Williams Lea, which is understood not to be involved in the process, due to the potential conflict of interest between its owner, German postal operator Deutsche Post World Net, and Royal Mail.

Ray Huntzinger, Royal Mail’s director of strategy programmes, is leading the tender process and set up a unit of 25 staff, under the name Royal Mail Document Management Services.

Xerox is seen by some as a front-runner after it won a GBP 400m contract for the Department of Work and Pensions in February.

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Polish Post to be transformed into treasury company

Posted by | Mar 28, 2007 | |

The Polish Post will be transformed into a State Treasury company under the name “Polish Post Joint Stock Company”. On March 27 the government adopted a draft law on the commercialisation of a state public utility enterprise Polish Post, the Government Information centre reported.

Commercialisation is planned as the first stage of ownership changes in the enterprise.

The company will be able to get ready for competition on a free market of postal services, planned to open in 2009.

Under the draft, the company will take over all rights and duties of the former state enterprise and will have the exclusive right to use the name “post” and a registered trademark.

The new company will be fully owned by the State Treasury. The Transport Minister will be responsible for Polish Post commercialisation and appointment of the first supervisory council, to be composed of five members.

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Changes in management of Polish Post

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

Zbigniew Niezgoda resigned from his position as Polish Post’s General Director. Jerzy Polaczek, the Minister of Transport, accepted Mr Niezgoda’s resingation on 23rd March 2007, after consultating with Polish Post’s Board of Directors. The Minister of Transport thanked Mr Niezgoda for almost one and a half years of successful work.

Andrzej Polakowski, formerly Director at Polish Post, was appointed as the new Deputy General Director.

In addition to that, on 27th March 2007 Konrad Mirowski was instated as the Vice General Director of Polish Post.

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Finland Post becomes Itella

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

As of 1 June 2007, the name of Finland Post Corporation will become Itella Corporation. At the same time, the entire Group will become the Itella Group. The Post’s consumer customers in Finland will not be affected by the change as they will continue to be served under the name “Posti”.

The change of name is based on the fact that, during recent years, the Finland Post has changed from a company conducting only postal services to one offering versatile data and material flow management services.

This change is also required by the internationalisation of the Finland Post Corporation. In addition to Finland, the Group now operates in eight Northern European countries, accounting for 23 per cent of the net turnover. Companies and other organisations account for 95 per cent of the Group’s turnover.

The Finnish consumer will hardly notice the change of name. In the future, post offices, mail carriers, mailboxes, consumer websites and communication and marketing directed at consumers will bear the familiar and trusted name of “Posti”.

Since the beginning of 2007, the Finland Post has used the Itella marketing name in all Group services offered to, and operations directed at, companies and organisations. Finnish consumers will be served under the name “Posti”. The change of the name of the parent company and the entire Group to Itella will also support the brand overhaul that has already taken place.

The names of the company’s subsidiaries will also be standardised during 2007 in all nine countries. Logistics’ subsidiaries will use the name Itella Logistics, and Information Logistics’ subsidiaries will use Itella Information Logistics.

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