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Internet takes over as catalogues slow down
The UK’s GBP37bn (EUR53bn) home delivery sector grew by just 3.2% in 2005, little more than half 2004’s growth rate of 5.6%, according to Verdict Research.
A slide in sales at traditional mail operators and consumer reluctance to make big-ticket furniture purchases was behind the slowdown, the researcher said.
“While sales via the internet and TV shopping channels made impressive strides, they have not been enough to prevent a sharp drop in growth in the UKs home delivery market overall, said Nick Gladding of Verdict. Mail order home delivery sales are down GBP585m (EUR842m) on 2002 levels while door-to-door channel sales growth levels have plummeted from 10% in 2004 to just 1.2% in 2005.” Internet sales, however, increased by 28.9% last year, and for the first time more than half of all home delivery shoppers placed orders online.
Read MoreAn Post to run National Lottery until 2010
AN Post is to continue running the National Lottery until the end of 2010.
Finance Minister Brian Cowen last night granted a two-year extension to the licence, which was due to run out in 2008.
Read MoreCandover buys DX to merge it with SMS
DX Services, the mail business, is to be bought by Candover Partners, the private equity firm, for Pounds 348.7m.
The offer of 415p a share in cash represents a 26 per cent premium to the closing share price of 330 1/2p on July 3, the day before the company announced it had received an approach from an unidentified party.
Candover’s acquisition represents a direct challenge to the Royal Mail Group as the private equity firm plans to merge DX with Secure Mail Services, a postal company that delivers time-sensitive documents.
Read MorePost Office Union piles strike pressure on UK Royal Mail with claim of 'blatant privatisation'
Protracted negotiations between Royal Mail and the union representing 160,000 of its employees come to a head later today, with the Communication Workers Union warning it will ballot members on strike action unless agreement is reached before the weekend on pay and working conditions.
The CWU and management have been in talks all week after the union backed away from an earlier threat to ballot workers last Monday. At issue is a pay deal worth up to 3.9pc and a range of other disputes including new automated sorting machinery and the transfer of some of the Royal Mail’s post offices to private sector partners.
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