La Poste makes entry into domestic courier market through Masterlink

The French postal service La Poste, has purchased a 50% stake in Masterlink, a courier company specializing in deliveries to urban areas and Scandinavian countries. So far Masterlink has been owned by the Swedish company Posten AB. This change of ownership means that the company will join Europe's second largest private postal and logistics group. It will gain access to new markets and new technologies. La Poste and Posten AB said their group would be the largest in France and Sweden, and the second biggest in Germany and the UK, competing with Deutsche Post and its partners. There are several courier companies owned by foreign enterprises active in Poland. Under the law, they can only send parcels weighing at least two kilograms, as lighter loads still fall under the Polish Post monopoly. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) A.D.