Government to sell Royal Mail stake to private operator
16 Dec 2008 | by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - The Government has drawn up plans to sell a third of Royal Mail to one of its rival postal operators -- TNT or DHL, according to a report.
LONDON - The Won Report has named Proximity as the world's most awarded direct marketing network and Germany as the most awarded country.
LONDON - The Government has drawn up plans to sell a third of Royal Mail to one of its rival postal operators -- TNT or DHL, according to a report.
LONDON - The Government has ruled out privatisation of Royal Mail ahead of the publication of an independent report saying the company needs heavy investment in automation, but is hampered by its ballooning pensions deficit.
LONDON - Proximity London has been fired from the direct marketing contract for TV Licensing after the wrong statistics for the number of fee evaders caught were used in millions of warning letters to the public.
LONDON - TMN Group's share price has dropped 33% after it revealed a post-tax loss of £476,000 in the six months to October 31 and has experienced a "marked reduction" in email marketing revenues.
LONDON - Interflora is just one of several companies taking legal steps to prevent competitors bidding on their trademarks as search terms, according to a branding lawyer.
LONDON - The chairman, chief operating officer and two non-executive directors of Phorm, the controversial behavioural targeting technology company, have left over differences of opinion with the chief executive.
LONDON - Marketing services group Creston has unveiled a strong set of interim results, including a 29% rise in net profit to £2.95m, and expects to continue to prove resilient to the economic downturn.
LONDON - The off-licence group behind Threshers is partnering a new Facebook application, which allows people to buy their friends real rather than virtual drinks to be picked up in-store.
LONDON - Targetbase Claydon Heeley deputy chairman Leo Campbell has left the agency to concentrate on a consultancy he has founded with Ed Mason.
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