Tag: UK

EU posts notice on Royal Mail monopoly

Posted by | Oct 16, 2001 | |

Royal Mail could lose its near-monopoly on the delivery and collection of letters in the UK before the end of the decade following a EU deal struck in Luxembourg last night.
The company, already facing limited competition in the recently liberalised British postal market, will be forced to accept a wave of new rivals in 2003 and 2006 respectively after ministers from all 15 EU member states agreed to a phased-in abolition of national postal monopolies with a view to creating a harmonised EU single market in the sector.

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Making mail deliver

Posted by | Oct 15, 2001 | |

You can’t please all the people all the time. As expected, Consignia’s minority stake of £2 million in Bristol-based mailing house Mail Marketing International has caused mixed reactions.
The investment, claims Royal Mail, is part of an ongoing strategy to protect mail from cheaper, faster options, like email. By stumping up the cash, the delivery giant says it wants to ensure direct mail has a sustainable future. “The problem,” says Geoff Lambert, finance and commercial director at Royal Mail, “is how to make the industry relevant in a digital age. We’re putting our money where our mouth is. We’re willing to change and to share the risk.”
By risk, Lambert means taking time and cost out of the supply chain. Investment in MMI, he predicts, enables both companies to develop new ways of working, with the solutions they find to be shared among the industry.

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Pallet ventures build network

Posted by | Oct 15, 2001 | |

Palletline and Pall-Ex are facing growing competition from rivals with pan-European strategies – European Network Distribution (END) and United Pallet Network (UPN)

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EU agrees to open 40% of postal markets by 2006

Posted by | Oct 15, 2001 | |

European Union governments agreed on Monday gradually to open their postal delivery markets to competition, reducing the traditional dominance of national mail monopolies. After more than a year of wrangling, ministers from the 15 EU member states reached a compromise that would open about 40 percent of the bloc’s postal market by 2006, EU single market commissioner Frits Bolkestein said.

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