Tag: TNT Mail

Rivals admit Royal Mail will be dominant UK postal player

Posted by | Jan 22, 2005 | |

Competitors to Royal Mail have said that the postal giant is set to be the dominant player in UK postal services for years to come. The admission came at a debate featuring the chief executives of Business Post Group, TNT Mail UK and DHL Global Mail at last month’s Mail Show Conference, and just under two months ahead of full deregulation of the UK postal services market. Sarah Chambers, chairman of postal regulator Postcomm, said that despite limited deregulation so far, Royal Mail still retained 97.2 per cent of the market. TNT Mail UK chief executive Nick Wells said he thought Royal Mail would be “the dominant player and that’s a good thing. But if we can take a 10-15 per cent share, we’d be happy with that.” However, Adam Crozier, chief executive of Royal Mail, said that Royal Mail is faced with falling mail volumes.

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TNT, Murdoch to compete with UK Royal Mail

Posted by | Jan 19, 2005 | |

Rupert Murdoch has linked up with another giant of Australian business, TNT, in its bid to compete with Britain’s state-owned postal service Royal Mail. Transport and delivery company TNT has entered Britain’s letter market with its TNT Premier service which guarantees delivery in 48 hours and handles one million items a week. As its service expands and the market opens up, however, TNT and other private mail providers have complained about Royal Mail’s “dirty tricks” and uncompetitive behaviour. Murdoch’s pay TV network BSkyB is the latest of five major customers to defect from Royal Mail to TNT, including food distributor Booker and mail order firm Express Gifts, the British newspaper The Guardian reported.

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UK Royal Mail’s market share being eroded

Posted by | Jan 19, 2005 | |

Royal Mail’s monopoly of the postal market is starting to be eroded, as rival mail companies poach the group’s biggest business customers. TNT Mail, owned by the Dutch post office, said yesterday it had won contracts to handle mail for several high-profile corporate clients, including Sky. The company said that it was handling nearly 1m items of post every week. Business Post, owned by UK Mail, has been operating in the UK since early last year and boasts clients such as Powergen, while DHL Global Mail, part of Deutsche Post, will launch its own UK business at the end of this month. Andy Barrett, head of marketing at DHL Global Mail UK, said the group had signed contracts with two large business customers. Although private sector competition to Royal Mail is growing rapidly, the state-owned group is expected to retain its market dominance for many years.

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TNT Mail wins 5 UK customers in 1st 3 mths

Posted by | Jan 18, 2005 | |

TNT Mail, the main challenger to Royal Mail in the UK deregulated postal market, said it has secured five customers in its first three months of operation. New clients include Sky, Caudwell Communications, Express Gifts, and Booker, all of which will operate under TNT Mail’s downstream access agreement with Royal Mail. This is in addition to its 20 existing customers. Since the access agreement with Royal Mail went live in August 2004, TNT Mail is now handling nearly 1 million items every week. Through the existing customer base TNT Mail expects to handle over 200 million items in 2005 but will exceed this volume as new clients come on stream.

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Wells to lead TNT UK postal assault

Posted by | Sep 24, 2004 | |

Circular Distributors (CD) managing director Nick Wells has been named chief executive. The move effectively frees him up to focus on leading sister company TNT Mail UK’s assault on the deregulated postal market. Wells is also chief executive of TNT Mail. Charles Neilson will replace Wells as CD managing director, with a remit to ensure the firm continues its aggressive growth.

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