Tag: UK

New Non-Executive Director for UK Royal Mail Board

Posted by | Dec 19, 2005 | |

Helen Weir, Group Finance Director of Lloyds TSB, is to be appointed a non-executive member of Royal Mail’s board, it was announced today. The move was warmly welcomed by Royal Mail’s Chairman, Allan Leighton, who said: “I am delighted Helen is joining us. Her breadth of senior financial and operational experience will strengthen Royal Mail’s board and be an asset to the company as it tackles the challenges of competing in a market opening to full competition on January 1.”

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Royal Mail faces setback on staff share ownership

Posted by | Dec 17, 2005 | |

Royal Mail’s hopes of persuading ministers to back its plans for employee share ownership will suffer a setback next week when a committee of MPs declares it is unconvinced by the scheme. The Commons trade and industry committee, which publishes on Tuesday the findings of a long inquiry into postal market liberalisation, is expected to be dismissive of the chairman Allan Leighton’s proposal. The state-owned postal operator, which faces full market liberalisation from January 1, wants to offer employees tradeable shares in the business, but has encountered fierce opposition to the plan from trade unionists and Labour MPs.

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R.R. Donnelley buys UK mail services firm

Posted by | Dec 16, 2005 | |

Printer RR Donnelley & Sons Company acquired print-and-mail services company Critical Mail Continuity Services Ltd. CMCS, based in Britain, serves financial services, telecommunications, utility, government and other large organizations with disaster recovery, business continuity, digital print and print-and-mail services. Clients use it to ensure that vital communications are not interrupted by catastrophic damage to in-house processing centers and to handle peak-period volumes.

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PPA wins first round against UK Royal Mail’s price hike proposal

Posted by | Dec 15, 2005 | |

Magazine industry chiefs have claimed a partial victory in their fight to prevent Royal Mail being allowed to make hefty price increases on its distribution products. The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has persuaded regulator Postcomm to recommend continued price-capping of Royal Mail’s Presstream 1 product. It feared extra distribution costs would be passed on to consumers via cover price rises. The “next- day” service is used by about a quarter of publishers to distribute trade press across the UK. But the PPA remains concerned that Postcomm will allow the removal of price controls on three-day service Presstream 2, which is used by the remaining publishers.

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Postcom chairman struggles against a 2nd class service

Posted by | Dec 15, 2005 | |

Why anyone would abandon the comfort zone of life at the top in corporate Britain to work for the government is an utter mystery. It is even more so when the new job is running the Postal Commission, or Postcom. Why anyone would abandon the comfort zone of life at the top in corporate Britain to work for the government is an utter mystery. It is the body charged with making sure the notoriously inefficient Royal Mail is doing a good job and that the postal worker feels the hot breath of competition on the collar. The avuncular Nigel Stapleton, Postcom chairman, believes his background in industry was just the kind of training he needed to make sure that the Royal Mail does better and actually manages to deliver the Christmas post on time.

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