Tag: UK

Article: WH Smith sells its news distribution system

Posted by | Aug 9, 2001 | |

Retail giant WH Smith first announced its intention to sell its troubled distribution business in March this year. The news was not unexpected: a trading statement for the 20 weeks to 20 January 2001 reported a ‘disappointing’ performance in the news distribution unit, with growth static at 1%. The retailer’s distribution division also came under fire last year for plans to form an exclusive national arrangement with Tesco for distributing magazines.
WH Smith put an end to this strategy in January this year, and hinted about selling off the division a few months later. Future plans for WH Smith News, the UK’s largest wholesaler of newspapers and magazines, still hangs in the balance, although the company insists it is “business as usual”.

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Royal Mail arm to offer direct response advice

Posted by | Aug 9, 2001 | |

Royal Mail is to launch a consultancy service to provide advertisers
with advice on how to use direct response media as part of a brand’s
marketing mix. The service, to be unveiled next month, forms part of the
Consignia-owned company’s attempts to woo advertisers and their
agencies by offering services beyond its traditional mail delivery
operation.

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CWU Gen Sec chastises a postal regulator bent on delivering Royal Mail workers' labour into the hands of the private sector

Posted by | Aug 7, 2001 | |

THE Post Office is a monopoly. It is strange that recent conditioning means
that I almost feel apologetic about this disgraceful state of affairs. I feel as if I should add: “I’m sorry about this. Naturally, I will do everything I can to end it. I know that monopolies are bad.” But the truth is that I don’t feel that way at all. I don’t even feel that there should be a debate about it. A postal monopoly is not good, bad or indifferent, it is a fact – like the fact
that there is only one Monopolies Commission. No other organisation could begin to compete with Royal Mail in any serious way. The fact that it has remained unchallenged as the nation’s mail carrier for 350 years is not because no-one else has been interested in the business or that noone has noticed that there is a postal service. No-one has tried to enter the market because there is no room for two parallel enterprises moving mail across the country.

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Direct mail in the UK continues to rise

Posted by | Aug 7, 2001 | |

Direct mail in the UK continues to rise despite recent signs of a general advertising slowdown. This is according to new research recently released from the Direct Mail Information Service (DMIS).
The DMIS study indicates that direct mail volumes rose to around 1.25 billion items during the April-June quarter of 2001, representing a 4.5% increase on the same period in 2000. At the same time, expenditure increased by 7.5% to £480 million during this period

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