11 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - IT systems specialist IQ Business has appointed EHS Brann to manage the customer acquisition and loyalty task for its business support services, IQ SmartSolutions.
25 Nov 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Royal Mail is following its 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' campaign with email activity to drive traffic to its promotional website, where customers can view a trailer for the film.
19 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Computer software giant Adobe Systems has hired below-the-line agency Gyro to promote its new document-processing software to large businesses.
19 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Hays, Royal Mail's biggest business rival, is threatening to go to the European courts to challenge UK postal regulator Postcomm on Royal Mail's exemption from VAT charges.
13 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - UK postal regulator Postcomm has begun a consultation on applications for long-term licences to deliver mail in competition with Royal Mail, ahead of deregulation of the UK postal market next year.
04 Nov 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Hays, the logistics and business mail company, has blamed the Royal Mail Group for a slump in profits that forced it to issue a profits warning the day before its new chief executive joined the company.
04 Nov 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Parcelforce Worldwide, a division of the Post Office, is to raise awareness of the last send-by dates before Christmas by offering customers a £100 travel voucher for every two parcels they send before the Christmas send by deadlines.
29 Oct 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON - Loss-making postal service Consignia is trying a novel way of saving money by filming the latest advertisement for its Special Delivery service in South Africa.
08 Oct 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Integrated communications agency Gyro has been appointed by storage specialist Hitachi Data Systems to develop a campaign to raise awareness of investing in storage, as an alternative to spending on server technology, to improve the performance of IT infrastructure.
03 Oct 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Consignia could be forced to refund its business customers 1% of their bill for every percentage point by which it fails to meet delivery targets, under new proposals by the postal watchdog.