The Hague, Royal TPG Post today officially changes its name to Royal TNT Post. The new name was first announced on 14 September 2005. Many measures have since been taken to prepare the company for the rebranding. To celebrate the transition from TPG Post to TNT Post, a pre-franked envelope will tomorrow be distributed door to door, enabling people to send a letter or card free of charge as a gift from TNT Post.
Read MoreRoyal Mail’s biggest rival wants to put its own postmen and women on the streets across the country within five to ten years in the biggest assault on the state-owned postal group’s business.
TNT, which has the largest share of the competitive postal market with 1.2 billion items this year, is expected soon to begin a trial of its own delivery system in a city centre and then follow that with deliveries in the UK’s main cities. Peter Bakker, chief executive of TNT, said the growth of TNT in the UK meant that it wanted to have its own delivery network “sooner rather than later” and that this could be achieved in five to ten years if growth continued at its present rate.
TNT NV said that its Logistics division has been awarded a five-year contract by US mailstream company Pitney Bowes. Financial details were not disclosed.
TNT will handle logistical services for Pitney Bowes from its site in Belgium from the fourth quarter onwards.
The TNT Logistics division was recently sold to Apollo and is awaiting completion of the sale.
Read MoreToday TNT announced that ABB has chosen TNT Freight Management as its preferred provider for a number of air and sea freight destinations to and from Sweden, in keen competition with other major players in the market.
The contract runs over a year and has just started.The first step involves air and sea freight from Sweden to the whole world, and vice versa. “We will now focus on the fastest and smoothest implementation possible of all the processes related to this Swedish agreement. Both TNT and ABB agree that the vision is to expand co-operation globally with cross trading and so on,” says Kenneth Dahlgren, Global Account Manager at TNT Freight Management.
Read MoreDutch mail and express deliveries group TNT NV is still talking with Japan Post about a potential cooperation, after previously the companies could not agree on a joint venture, TNT CEO Peter Bakker said on October 10, 2006.
TNT said at the end of June 2006, it could not agree terms with Japan Post about a planned international express deliveries joint venture.
According to Bakker, Japan Post, which is slated for privatisation, did not want to make some long-term commitments required for the deal to go through. Talks between the two companies are now focused on other cooperation opportunities. The CEO could not say when an agreement could be expected.
TNT is advising Japan Post in the course of its ongoing privatisation.
(Editor’s note: Japan accounts for 33 pct of the Asian express deliveries market. Japan Post has a domestic market share of about 10 pct, while with a share of 20.5 pct, TNT is market leader in Europe, according to the Dutch News Digest.)
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