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esses being taken over by the Group and
the services offered in the different markets
being coordinated. With restructuring
under way and the renewed focus on
the market, there are plans to increase
sales and raise the operating result (EBIT)
group-wide.
MailSource Group – on the way to
becoming the global market leader
The market is increasingly calling for services
that can not only cover in-house mail
but can also handle upstream and downstream
tasks such as scanning, indexing
and archiving. There is also a clear trend
towards the international award of large
transactions. Customers prefer to deal
with a single partner worldwide. Mail-
Source aims to be the European and global
market leader in the field of in-house
postal and related services.
The MailSource Group pursues four strategic
thrusts. It is expanding its service
and technology competencies, and it is
increasing its global geographic presence
so as to offer services wherever its customers
operate. It also aims to acquire
additional shares in its existing markets
and promote group-wide processes and
structures (knowledge transfer and exchange
of best practices) to ensure the
integration and management of companies
that have been newly acquired as
part of its growth strategy. With these
four strategic thrusts, the Group is aiming
for double-digit growth with an industrystandard
EBIT in the future as well.
In 2006, the activities of the MailSource
Group were characterized by organic
growth at existing national companies
(especially in the UK and Switzerland) and
by acquisitions and the related expansion
of its geographic presence to the USA
and France. In January, MailSource took
over Forrest Solutions in the USA with
over 1.000 employees. In February it acquired
oneReason in Switzerland, and in
July, it established a new subsidiary in
France and took over the contracts and
staff of Euro Postal Services.
Sales growth at MailSource Group came
to 79 percent in 2006. The threshold of
200 million francs with an industry-standard
EBIT was thus exceeded for the first
time. Factoring out acquisitions, organic
growth came to 25 percent with an industry-standard
EBIT.
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Outlook
Highlights of 2007 will include the renewal
of major contracts in Italy, Switzerland
and the UK. As part of the expansion
of the Group’s geographic presence,
market studies will be conducted for the
eastern European and Asian markets. To
increase both the geographic presence
and technological competency, additional
acquisitions and partnerships will be assessed
on an ongoing basis.
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