Tag: Russia

Itella Information expands to Poland

Posted by | Jan 16, 2008 | |

Itella Group is expanding to Poland. Itella Information has signed an agreement on acquiring the business operations of BusinessPoint S.A, a Polish company specialising in printing and document management. The deal is conditional, requiring e.g. the approval of the Polish competition authorities. Vendors are the owners of the company and they will continue in Itella’s service.

BusinessPoint is one of the largest service providers in its field in Poland, posting net sales of approximately EUR 15 million in 2006 and employing a staff of 100 permanent employees.
– For some time now, Itella Information has been investigating the possibilities of expanding into the Polish market. In Poland, the outsourcing of printing and document management operations is only in its initial stages, and expansion into new, growing markets in Poland is a natural direction for Itella Information’s growth, comments Heikki Länsisyrjä, business group director at Itella Information.
– This deal allows us to create even more innovative services for the Polish market. Itella Information is an experienced service operator in the field of information logistics, and we can benefit from that experience and develop new services, particularly in the fields of e-invoicing and e-transactions, says Jacek Zaremba, Managing Director of BusinessPoint S.A.

Besides companies in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Baltic countries Itella Group operates also in Russia where Itella opened a logistics centre last year. Poland will be the tenth country where Itella operates.

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Central Telegraph plans retail network with post offices

Posted by | Dec 5, 2007 | |

Central Telegraph deploys Axerra products for PBX backhaul

Russian regional fixed-line services provider Central Telegraph is deploying Axerra’s Pseudo-Wire systems for PBX backhaul and point-to-point connections over a packet switched network. Axerra’s AXN Pseudo-Wire gateways and Access Devices enable Central Telegraph to provide backhaul of E1 services and use its infrastructure to support commercial services to small and medium-sized businesses. Axerra’s official distributor in Russia, RGRCom, accomplished the equipment supply.

Central Telegraph to raise RUB 390 mln this year

Russian regional fixed-line services provider Central Telegraph plans to raise RUB 390 million this year, Interfax reports citing a company statement. The funds will be used to refinance existing debt. The company further announced it will seek RUB 540 million in 2008.

Central Telegraph plans retail network with post offices

Russian regional operator Central Telegraph plans to set-up a major retail network in Moscow to promote its broadband internet access services, newspaper Kommersant reports. In early 2008, Central Telegraph plans to open retail outlets in 523 post offices in Moscow to sell broadband services of the company’s ISP Qwerty. With the move, the company hopes to double the number of sign-ups to 10,000 per month. Currently, Central Telegraph only has one sales office for its Qwerty services in Moscow while rival Stream has twelve sales outlets and Corbina Telecom has five sales points in the city.

Central Telegraph expects profits to drop this year

Russian regional operator Central Telegraph expects its net profit this year to drop 11.6 percent to RUB 160 million, AK&M reports. Last year the company posted profits of RUB 180.95 million. Revenues will go up by 30.6 percent to RUB 3.31 billion compared with RUB 2.54 billion while EBITDA is forecasted to come in at RUB 553 million.

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DHL Russia introduced an evening pick-up product

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

As of December 1, DHL has offered its customers a new ‘Evening pick-up’ product. It is now possible to hand in shipments to DHL courier even when the working time is over.

DHL Evening pick-up product is available in Moscow and St. Petersburg for downtown areas of the two cities. DHL plans to expand the service coverage in the near future to make it available to its customers across the rest of Russia.

‘We are aware just how tough the schedule of our customers can be’, says Eugenia Panfilova, Acting Commercial Manager DHL Russia. ‘For objective reasons, arranging a shipment may take much more time than expected. We strive to meet our customers’ expectations and give them extra time to prepare their shipment for the pick-up. We realize that success of a business depends greatly on the time it takes to deliver a shipment and we will do our best to ensure that our customers face no inconveniences in their day-to-day operations’, she added.

No additional paperwork is needed to order the new DHL product. The courier pick-up request is done in a standard way. To file the request for the current day, one needs to call DHL before 19:00. The shipments are picked up by the courier until 22:00.

Additionally DHL customers may arrange for various optional services such as Insurance, Proactive Tracking and Proof of Delivery. DHL customers may also benefit from a wide range of packaging materials offered by DHL as well as Remote Area Service.

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"Mail of Russia" receives payments to collector agency

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

“Mail of Russia” has begun reception of payments which are carried out by physical persons by means of the postal order “CyberMoney”, to the address of the Joint-Stock Company “Sequoia Credit Consolidation”. It is spoken about in the joint report of the companies.

The given service is accessible in all post offices of Russia. “Sequoia Credit Consolidation” will inform the borrowers who will have an opportunity to pay off the duty through “Mail of Russia”, additionally.

“Mail of Russia” is the network of federal mail service including 84 branches, 42 thousand departments of mail service. The company renders services in all territory of Russia, including cities and rural settlements. Incomes in January-June, 2007 in comparison with the parameter of the similar period of the last year have increased up 26 pct and have exceeded 30mlrd rbl. The pure loss of “Mail of Russia” in 2007, on preliminary data, will make 5.7mlrd rbl.

The Joint-Stock Company “Sequoia Credit Consolidation” – collector agency – works in the Russian market since 2004. The company renders banks, not bank credit organizations, insurance, telecommunication companies the service on return of clients’ – physical and legal persons- debts, works in 30 cities of the Russian Federation, in 12 from which its branches are opened.

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