Tag: Sweden

Post Office alliance plans collapse following DSV sale

Posted by | Oct 12, 2001 | |

Jacob Buksti, the Danish minister of transport, is responsible for the collapse of the merger plans of Post Danmark, the Danish post office, according to Lennart Grabe, the managing director of Posten AB, the Swedish post office. De Sammensluttede Vognmand (DSV), the Danish transport group, sold its parcel division to Posten yesterday and Post Danmark is now at risk of falling behind in Europe. Post Danmark had the opportunity to enter a new alliance with Posten, La Poste of France and DSV but the Danish government prevented this, according to Mr Grabe.

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Pan Nordic Logistics Seeks Int'l Partnership

Posted by | Oct 11, 2001 | |

October 11, 2001 — Herbert Nielsen, Reuters: “Pan Nordic Logistics (PNL) is maintaining its strategy of joining a major international alliance before the year-end, but this will not be with France’s Chronopost, PNL’s chairman Karre Frydenberg said. PNL was formed by the Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish post offices but today it was announced that Post Sweden – following Finland – is leaving the group from January next year.

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Swedish, French mail services sign cooperation agreement [3 Articles]

Posted by | Oct 11, 2001 | |

The state mail carriers of Sweden and France, Posten AB and La Poste, agreed Thursday to cooperate on package deliveries and other shipments.

“Our objective is to quickly integrate the new operations and increase volume,” said Lennart Grabe,” president and group CEO of Posten.

La Poste’s 85 percent-owned Direct Parcel Distribution _ one of Europe’s largest package service networks _ may enter into franchise agreements with Posten in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Posten stated in a news release.

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Second sell-off complete

Posted by | Sep 1, 2001 | |

Posten is to sell its Postengirot bank to Swedish group Nordbanken, despite being forced to pull out of one prospective sale to another Swedish bank earlier this year when it found itself in trouble with the government’s competition authorities.

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