Exel, the global provider in supply chain management, has opened a dedicated distribution center for Geneva Pharmaceuticals, one of the country’s largest generic pharmaceutical development and manufacturing companies. The new operation improves customer service by enabling product from Geneva’s pharmaceutical distributor network to be delivered within 48 hours.
Read MoreThe Spanish direct mail market is one hundred per cent liberalised. Equally, city centres have also been liberalised since the sixties. This has meant that the national post office has lost probably 70% of the local market and 90% of the market within the regional province. Ninety per cent is technically illegal but impossible to control. It is clear on a national basis that it has lost 10% to these local licensed operators.
Read MoreChina Daily has reported that “at a time when the Internet is biting into postal operators’ profits, Chinese postal companies are jumping on the technology bandwagon. They hope that web services can breathe new life into the traditional postal service, providing a fresh source of revenue. Providers of web solutions have been licking their lips at the prospect of creating a web system for the mail service.”
Read MoreThe postal Corporation of Jamaica is examining the implementation of a franchise programme to increase efficiency and extend its customer reach within the next six months.
The Postmaster General and CEO explained that the proposed franchise programme, that has already been drafted, is a reaction to the increased challenges being faced by the Corporation, including mounting debt.
Read MorePrime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s private advisory panel on the state-run postal services handed Friday to the premier a final report proposing three options for privatizing the services in the future.
Having received the report, Koizumi now aims to drum up support for privatizing the three postal services of mail delivery, postal savings and kampo life insurance.
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