Belgian Post International (BPI) has entered the booming Indian market through a partnershipwith mail and courier firm Expressit to launch an international express mail delivery service
across 180 countries.The partnership marks BPI’s entry into India’s booming express delivery market, which has beenwitnessing 20% year-on-year growth in recent years, the two companies said in a jointstatement.
Presented to customers under the name of “MailPlus offer”, the new service will allow Indiancompanies to reach out to international customers in timely, cost effective and qualitative way.Besides very competitive prices, MailPlus will also offer guaranteed delivery times.
The express service will consist of three tailor-made international solutions: Practimail,Volumail and Parcels. Practimail is an all-in service focusing on express mail. Volumail is anextremely competitive solution tailored to suit significant annual mail volumes. The Parcelsservice will offer a step-by-step online monitoring, extended delivery and deposit options. Thislast service particularly targets publishing companies and e-commerce businesses.
Peter Somers, member of the Management Committee of Belgian Post and Managing Director ofBelgian Post International, said: “This partnership provides us with the opportunity to reinforceour future growth in foreign markets. Belgian Post International has acquired a great deal ofexperience and know-how in the recent years, and through this partnership we will now furtherexpand our business on the Indian market.”
Ashis Nain, Chairman & Managing Director of Expressit, said: “The partnership is animportant milestone for Expressit as it firmly places us in the international express deliverymarket. We are delighted to be working with BPI and are excited about the potential of the newlylaunched service. The combination of Expressit’s deep understanding of the Indian market and BPI’sunmatched global network would help MailPlus to become a market leading international express mailservice.”
“Express mail and parcel delivery business in India is expected to explode and this market willexperience significant growth. Today, 98% of our revenues come from the domestic market. The Indianlogistics market is slated to grow to $3.9 billion by 2013 from $1 billion currently,” Nainadded.
Expressit is a 100% integrated network, which is set up to provide express mail managementservices to the premium segment as well as deliver sensitive documents for high-volume enterprisecustomers. The company offers 360-degree B2C logistics solutions to a wide range of industriesincluding banking, financial services, insurance, telecom, retail and aviation. With over 14,000locations across 600 cities in India, Expressit is one of the fastest growing end-to-end logisticssolutions providers. In 2009-2010, the company carried 25 million shipments.
BPI is a business unit of Belgian Post managing international mail and parcel distribution. Itis ranked among the top five international postal operators.
