The New Year sees the culmination of the merger, legally bringing together their UK operations under the banner Asendia UK Ltd.
Asendia UK Ltd will comprise: La Poste UK Ltd (including Pitney Bowes IMS UK Ltd, acquired in June 2013), Swiss Post International (UK) Ltd and Bedfordshire-based BTB Mailflight Ltd.
The UK Head Office is located at Heathrow within the newly extended and upgraded Swiss Post International facilities. Millions of mail items are handled monthly for distribution across the globe. Mailing, printing and goods fulfilment warehouses will remain at Bedford and Southampton, with Bedford also providing a response centre, digital print and the hybrid mail service Maileva.
The CEO of Asendia UK, Frédéric Petton, said: “Everyone across the business has been working extremely hard over the past sixteen months towards the ‘unifying’ of three diverse entities into one cohesive business. I am happy to say that so far the merger is proving to be a successful venture, and has been achieved with the minimum disruption to customers, suppliers and staff.”
Sales and Marketing Director, Lloyd Webber, added: “We have combined our expertise into a cohesive and streamlined business model, enabling our customer to access a wider range of services. With an increased customer focus in 2014 customers will discover a new way of working with our end-to-end product range providing a complete solution for their marketing, goods, press and business mail fulfilment – straight to the letterbox, anywhere in the world.”
About Asendia
Asendia says: “Asendia is a joint venture between La Poste and Swiss Post and it is one of the world’s leading companies for the distribution of international mail to over 220 countries. Asendia offers its customers high quality and sustainable solutions for cross-border global mail, catalogues, press and small goods. This includes printing and fulfilment services as well as postal solutions.
Asendia has offices in 15 countries across three continents with over 1000 employees worldwide. In the UK, Asendia has sites in West London, Hampshire and Bedfordshire, and incorporates former BTB Mailflight Ltd, La Poste UK Ltd, Swiss Post International UK Ltd and Pitney Bowes International Mail Services UK Ltd.”
