Tag: UK

UK Royal Mail stems losses by a third in cost-cutting drive

Posted by | May 11, 2003 | |

Royal Mail will announce this month that it has reduced operating losses by a third in the first 12 months of chairman Allan Leighton’s three year cost-cutting programme. Despite the slower than expected axeing of second letter deliveries to homes across the country, the loss in the latest financial year is likely to fall to around GBP200m from GBP318 million previously, largely due to better performance at the core mail and Parcelforce businesses.

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UK door-to door marketing: opening new doors

Posted by | May 9, 2003 | |

Today, around 9.5 billion marketing items are delivered through letterboxes each year, with every household receiving more than 300 on average, around a third of which are not addressed to anyone in particular. DMA (UK) figures reveal that expenditure on door-to-door (D2D) marketing has risen by more than 23 per cent since 1998. New figures out in June are expected to show that spending jumped from GBP522m in 2000 to around GBP570m last year.

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Members focus on growth

Posted by | May 8, 2003 | |

Palletline says its members across the county have continued investing and developing their services in n ongoing focus of efficiency and reliability.
Wrexham- based Edge Transport has completed a £35,000 extension and refurbishment of facilities at its clwyd site. It has also applied for planning permission to install a new £20,000 electric fence and access control system.

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UK Royal Mail and Pitney Bowes Management Services launch new document solutions service

Posted by | May 8, 2003 | |

Royal Mail today announced that it is joining forces with the Management Services Business of Pitney Bowes Inc in the UK to offer bespoke document management solutions to businesses. RMPB Ltd will combine the services of Royal Mail and PBMS UK to offer UK businesses ‘Royal Mail Document Solutions’, a range of bespoke, outsourced document management services and mailroom operations.

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Royal Mail’s Mailsort will save UK business millions of pounds a year

Posted by | May 7, 2003 | |

This week (May 8th), Royal Mail will reduce the price tariffs for its Mailsort products, a move which will save the marketing community million of pounds a year. Royal Mail will reduce supply chain costs, share savings with customers and simplify the products and pricing for Mailsort 120 & 700. Royal Mail is able to do this by lowering prices and encouraging customers to use Mailsort products that offer mechanised sorting.

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