UPS launches its MBE, with first branch to open in Katowice next month

Katowice-based Parta intends to set up at least 70 Mail Boxes Etc (MBE) centers specializing in postal and office services for businesses. The company expects this process to take approximately ten years. The first MBE center will open in Katowice in September at the cost of zł. 150,000. Apart from servicing clients, MBE centers will provide training for Parta's future partners. The firm expects that the investment will pay back after 18 months. Parta's potential partners will have to pay a license fee of zł. 60,000 and cover the costs of equipping a center. Xerox, which signed a six-year co-operation contract with MBE, will be the exclusive provider of office services. "Xerox met the conditions set by our firm offering complex solutions adapted to MBE specificity," said Parta's president Andrzej Partyka. MBE Inc. is owned by the world's largest package delivery company, UPS. (Puls Biznesu, p. 9) A.Z.