Tag: Sweden

The Impact of Competitive Entry into the Swedish Postal Market

Posted by | Feb 12, 2007 | |

This paper examines how Sweden Post confronted its new competitor and describes the impact of postal competition in Sweden. The paper begins by tracing the origins of competition in the Swedish mail market. Next, it quantifies the challenges faced by the new entrant, CityMail, into a business characterized by large economies of scale. Third, it describes Posten’s responses to competitive entry. Fourth, it assesses the impact of competition on Sweden’s postal prices. Finally, it quantifies the impact of Posten’s response to competition on Swedish consumer surplus.

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The European Mail Manifesto: growth, partnership and innovation in a changing industry

Posted by | Jan 12, 2007 | |

The Postal Users Group has issued a manifesto on the main interests of business users of postal services to encourage the European Commission to take the postal users needs into account when it is preparing its next proposals on postal services this year. PUG, an alliance of the major postal users representing 15 trade associations and businesses, points out in its manifesto that the postal services cover a very wide range of businesses and systems. The letter mail business of Europe´s postal operators represent about 1 million jobs and revenues of 47 billion euro; however, PUG shows that the wider sector accounts for an additional 4 million jobs and over 150 billion euro of revenues.

Contents (i)
List of figures (ii)
List of case studies (ii)
List of annexes (ii)
Signatories (iii)
Foreword (iv)
Author’s Foreword (v)
Executive summary (vi)
1. Introduction 1
2. The postal segment of the mail industry
3. The broader mailing industry 17
4. A shared vision for the future 25
5. Conclusion 33
Annex 36
Bibliography 38
P:LibraryPostalEuropean Mail Manifesto PUG 0706.pdf

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ErgoGroup buys SYSteam

Posted by | Dec 18, 2006 | |

Norway Post-owned ErgoGroup has today signed a contract to buy more than 90% of the shares in SYSteam’s operations in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. The remaining shareholders will receive an offer to sell their shares in the company to ErgoGroup. The total purchase price will be MSEK 1,100
SYSteam is the biggest IT company in Sweden’s SME market and the combined SYSteam/ErgoGroup will be a clear market leader as an IT service provider to the Nordic SME market.

SYSteam is owned by Bure Equity AS, which holds 46.2% of the shares, and by three founders (Arne Nilsson, Claes Rosengren and Stig-Olof Simonsson) who hold a total of 43.8% of the shares. The approximately 350 employees own the remaining 10%. Following negotiations with SYSteam’s main shareholders, ErgoGroup has bought more than 90% of the shares and hereby announces that it will make the mandatory offer to buy the remaining shares in the company. ErgoGroup thus wishes to acquire all of SYSteam’s operations in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark with effect from 1 January 2007. The value of this transaction is MSEK 1,100.

The operations that are now being taken over by ErgoGroup comprise a portfolio of around 3,800 customers, are expected to achieve revenues of MSEK 1,400 in 2006 and have around 1,030 employees in around 50 offices in the Nordic region.

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The logistics industry must focus on security

Posted by | Nov 29, 2006 | |

Pan Nordic Logistics (PNL) is currently focusing on security and is preparing to set up a special group to investigate thefts and other security incidents.
Security issues must be given greater priority within the logistics industry, says Bengt-Eric Johansson, the new security manager at PNL.

PNL is currently putting together a security group and encouraging the logistics industry as a whole to focus more on security.
It will soon be Christmas, which is our busiest time of year for parcels. It is particularly important to be able to guarantee that presents will actually arrive, says Bengt-Eric Johansson.

PNL is a leading player on the Nordic market when it comes to parcels and pallets thanks to its strong network and committed partners. By focusing on security, the company wants to encourage the rest of the logistics industry to take a greater interest in the issue.

PNLs new security manager Bengt-Eric Johansson says that security should be a hot topic within the industry.
The logistics industry has been noticeably reticent on the issue of security for goods. We in the industry should act as one to push this issue further up the agenda, says Bengt-Eric.

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