Fund managers have been reassessing their holdings of Business Post Group in recent days. The principal reason is the expected demerger of DX, the mail company, from Hays, the recruitment consultancy, at the beginning of next week.
DX has been canvassing support among institutions, with many fund managers coming away impressed, supporting the view that they might be interested in switching parts of their holdings.
The Interlink Express depot in Venture Crescent, Alfreton, has become part of a GBP3m UK investment plan to improve its service to small and medium businesses.
The company is launching three new timed next-day deliveries at 9.30am, noon and 3pm. There are also two timed deliveries on Saturdays at 9am and noon.
Interlink Express has also set up a new hotline and email customer service link.
Britain’s network of sub post offices is in “serious danger of extinction”, the Government was warned today. The National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP) said that urgent Government action was now needed to prevent the network sinking into terminal decline. The federation today set out its proposals to revitalise the system in a manifesto, launched at Westminster with the backing of the all-party post offices group of MPs. It called for a one-off cash injection of GBP150 million for the urban network to produce “bigger, better and brighter” post offices, while drawing up a programme by 2008 to develop the “optimum, viable rural network”. It said the current level of Government support for was doing no more than “prop up” an “ailing” rural network and that start-up cash was need for refurbishment and the ongoing provision of social and economic services.
Read MoreInternational and domestic express delivery services will soon be even easier to enjoy, thanks to DHL. The world’s leading express and logistics company, is today extending its service offering to the SME and consumer markets with the launch of Service Points, a new gateway to DHL’s international network.
Currently in pilot phase in Chessington and Hounslow outside London, Service Points enables customers to take their parcels and documentation directly to a DHL ‘Service Point’ for international or domestic distribution. A service similar to that offered by the Post Office today. This innovative new service will soon see hundreds of DHL Service Points throughout the UK, bringing convenience to businesses and consumers like never before.
Chapter 1 Network overview
1/ Introduction 8
2/ Post Office Ltd finances 8
3/ Post Office Ltd efficiencies 9
4/ Directly Managed Branches 11
5/ Direct Payment Programme &
the Post Office Card Account 12
6/ Opportunities from competition in postal services 19
7/ Innovations from abroad 20
Chapter 2 Banking and new products
1/ Introduction 26
2/ Banking 26
3/ Update on new Financial Products 30
4/ Advertising the network 31
5/ Innovation and other new products 31
Chapter 3 Urban Network
1/ Introduction 40
2/ The Urban Reinvention Programme 40
3/ Support fund for urban deprived Post Offices 47
4/ Other grants and schemes for the urban network 50
5/ Supermarkets and convenience stores 53
6/ Studies by others on the urban network 54
Chapter 4 Rural Network
1/ Introduction 60
2/ Funding the rural network to 2006 60
3/ Other Rural Funding 61
4/ Closures 62
5/ Rural Research 63
6/ Rural Transfer Advisers & Community Action 65
7/ Pilot Projects & alternatives to ‘traditional’
Post Offices 67
8/ Devolved Administrations 69
9/ Future of the rural network 70
Chapter 5 Network Change
1/ Introduction 76
2/ Network change 78
3/ Post Office market 80
4/ Subpostmasters resigning 82
5/ Subpostmaster current and future issues 85
6/ Customer impact 88
7/ Re-opening of Post Office branches 90
8/ The Regional Picture 92
Annex A
Recommendations in last year’s report 95
Annex B
Postcomm’s recommendations on the future
of the rural network 97
Annex C
Statement by the Secretary of State for Trade
and Industry, September 2004 99
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