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Business Post - Parcel carrier eyes rich pickings from forthcoming deregulation

December 2003

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Another company that looks likely to benefit from the Government's desire to beat up monopolies is Business Post, the UK's only quoted business parcel carrier.  Much to strike-ridden Royal Mail's chagrin postal regulator, Postcomm, has set out its stall to deregulatethe postal market and although Royal Mail has instigated some underhandblocking tactics, the first stage of this process should start next year.  However, the group's big opportunity will come when the postal market is fully opened up in April 2007, which would open a £5 billion market in business mail.  While that may seem a fair way off we believe that Business Post's relatively modest market value of £258m will shoot up in anticipation of the easy ...

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