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Home > Company Index > Transportation > Air Delivery, Freight & Parcel Services > La Poste

La Poste
 PROFILE
French postal authority La Poste delivers mail and parcels and offers financial and logistics services. State-run La Poste serves some 3.5 million clients a day at some 17,000 postal outlets and processes about 25 billion pieces of mail yearly. Financial services include money orders, checking and savings accounts, mutual funds, and insurance products. Business services include e-commerce and mail management. La Poste also offers Internet access at 1,000 post offices and is starting free e-mail accounts. Its units include L'Aéropostale (airmail), Chronopost International (overnight parcels), and TAT Express (express freight transport). To extend its parcel delivery reach, La Poste has teamed up with US giant FedEx.

 COMPETITION
Deutsche Post AG (DPW)
TNT Post Group N.V. (TP)
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS)

 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
1999 Sales (mil.): 15,350.10
1-Yr. Sales Growth: (3.0)%
Employees: 310,000
Revenue per employee: $49,516.45

 KEY PEOPLE
• Martin Vial
    CEO

 CONTACT INFO
4 Quai du Point du Jour
92777 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France
Phone: 33-1-41-41-66-66
Fax: 33-1-41-41-78-57
Online: Web Site

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