Österreichische Post
Österreichische Post AG was founded in 1999 and is a legally independent under company registration number 180219d registered with the Commercial Court of Vienna logistics and postal companies. Österreichische Post AG is the indirect successor of the lines of business " Yellow post " and " Postautodienst " the former Austrian Postal and Telegraph Administration. These businesses have been created on May 1, 1996 in the division of the Austrian Postal and Telegraph Administration in the so-called Yellow Post and Telekom Austria. 2000, the post bus service was spun off from the parent company and the Post AG is now focused on their core business. In February 2002, the Universal Service Ordinance came into force to ensure universal coverage of the population of Austria.
The privatization of Austrian Post AG was discussed from mid-2004 and carried out subsequently. On May 15, 2006, the sale of 41.3 million shares of Austrian Post AG launched at the issue price of 19 €. Since May 31, 2006 for the first time the stock is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange since the stock reached a performance of around 12 % and has a market capitalization of around 1.5 billion euros (as of November 2011). The dividend yield of this company is usually high ( total shareholder return since the IPO of around 60%). The post office is at 52.8 % owned by the ÍIAG, the rest is essentially free float (16% Continental Europe, 12% Austria 10% UK, 8 % North America, 1 % other ).
The share capital amounts of the decision taken at the board meeting of 11 March 2009 reduction in capital € 337,763,190 and is divided into 67,552,638 bearer shares.
History
The history of the Austrian Post AG begins construction of the postal sector in Austria, presented in detail in the article: Austrian postal history until 1806.
From the year 1490 was the first standardized postal Europe between Innsbruck and the Mechelen, Belgium. In 1722, Emperor Charles VI declared. post a state monopoly, and shortly thereafter began under Maria Theresa and Joseph II of the post travel service through regular daily stagecoaches. Already in 1787 led the postmaster Johann Georg Khumer a postal stamp ( date and place stamp).
With the reorganization of the postage rates system in 1817, the mailboxes have been set up in the same year. The first Austrian stamp was issued but only 33 years later. 1863 were adopted at an International Postal Conference in Paris guidelines for the international postal treaties, eleven years before the founding of the Universal Postal Union. As of 1869, the first postcards (so-called " correspondence cards " ) have been sent.
In the years 1875-1956 there was a pneumatic tube in Vienna. When completed, this total of 53 post offices tube connected to a total length of 82.5 kilometers. The first telephone network was put into operation in 1881.
Middle of the First World War came in 1916, the first post office boxes in Austria and two years later the world's first civilian airmail service.
Newer development
In 1966, the Austrian postal code system was established. Eight years later came the first mobile phone network in Austria. The mid-1990s led the Austrian Post called EMS ( " Express Mail Service"), which is the primary treated dispatch of letters and parcels, a.
A first step for future legal independence of the Austrian postal system was the establishment of Post and Telekom Austria (PTA ) from the former Austrian Postal and Telegraph Administration in 1996, two years later was followed by the removal of the Telekom Austria. Then, finally, the post office was legally independent as Österreichische Post AG 1999.
It was followed two years later, the spin-off line of business Postautodienst to ÖIAG and the acquisition of a 74.9% feibra Austria. 2002, at that time largest letter distribution center in Europe Inzersdorf was commissioned and acquired the Slovakian parcel companies Slovak Parcel Service ( SPS) and in-time, one year later still came the Croatian company Overseas Trade added.
2004 sold the Austrian Post, the postal insurance and a year later his shares in DPD parcel services as boarding the Austrian B2B parcel market. It was followed by several takeovers and acquisitions. So came in 2005 added the Feibra Hungary and the proportion of Feibra Austria was increased to 100 %. A year later, the Post took over also the Slovak advertising mailers Kolos, the Viennese district newspaper and the German trans-o- flex ( B2B Parcel & Logistics ). There followed in 2007 with the acquisitions of Weber Escal (Croatia ) / commercials, Scanpoint ( Germany ) / scan services, Road Parcel and Merland Expressz (Hungary ) / package shipping, Scherübl ( Austria ) / pharmaceutical logistics and the acquisition of the German Direct Marketing specialists meiller direct headquartered Bavarian Schwandorf, as well as ST- Media (Croatia ) / infomercials and City Express (Serbia ) / parcel shipping. Finally, in 2008 came DDS ( Netherlands) / package shipping, VOP ( Belgium) added / package shipping, Belgian HSH Group and the Bosnian parcel service 24VIP.
From 2004, the Post also cites the post- partners. This partially cover the offer of the post and are increasingly being used as a substitute for post offices that are no longer economical for the post, but where sites must be obtained according to the Postal Act.
2006 took the company public on the Vienna Stock Exchange with a 49% -owned float. In the same year the post office set the service Post24 a pick up at the fully automated stations for packages and return in Vienna are both day and night time.
After Hermes could win some mail order companies as customers in 2007, the business developed both for the post and for Hermes Hermes unfavorable and therefore can determine its packets through the post since June.
Investments
Austrian Post has won numerous national and international investments, particularly in the new EU Member States as well as Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. Since the IPO, acquisitions in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands took place. By the end of October 2006 it was announced that are taken in the German logistics company trans -o- flex, December 2006 74.9 %. Meanwhile, the proportion was increased to 100 %.
With its subsidiary Scan Point GmbH ( founded in 1979 as a micro- Matic GmbH in Germany from 2004: Scanpoint Europe GmbH, Waldbronn, from 2007: 51% in the Post AG and renaming to Scanpoint Germany GmbH, Waldronn later Schwandorf, subsidiary, founded in 2006 Scanpoint Europe Holding GmbH, Vienna, from 2008: 100 % of the post AG in late 2011 name mangling of Viennese society ) digitizes the post- physical letters for about 50 Austrian companies. The letters are opened and electronically transmitted to the receiver. For some major customers are up to 6,000 pieces of mail a day. Sole shareholder is the post ten Beteiligungs GmbH, in which the post six Beteiligungs GmbH is the sole shareholder, whose sole shareholder is in turn the Austrian Post AG. ( Until March 2012: four post Beteiligungs GmbH → Post → three Beteiligungs GmbH Österreichische Post AG) Since 2005 there with Scanpoint Slovakia sro also a location in Slovakia.
Criticism
Due to the spin-off of the post from the federal budget in 1996 and the ever progressing liberalization has moved the post to have to open up new business. This has also led to the trading address. According to the motto "Our addresses are worth more " the Post no longer existing " Postadress Austria GmbH " has joined forces with the private data broker Suppan Schober Direct Marketing GmbH and is entered in the address trade. This fact has earned her first prize in the Big Brother Awards Austria in 2001, the Austrian Post AG. Furthermore, it was announced that the post information about their customers (eg, whether the mailer is still living at the address or where he is warped, if the customer regularly emptied his mailbox, etc. ) passed on to third parties such as collection agencies. The post should have their postman used as " detectives " to check whether sick leave employees are actually at home.
In 2003, the Austrian Post AG was awarded her second prize at the Big Brother Awards Austria. In particular, the fact was criticized and announced that the post is an authorization to forward data to the information provided was obtained with a redirection. Without this consent Redirecting were often not adopt the Data Protection Act. The Austrian Data Protection Act stipulates that the non- granting of such authorization may not have any effect on the contract. Also applies to the Post an obligation to contract, thus it is nevertheless obliged to accept the see Hand.
Furthermore, it is criticized that COD shipments will only be issued if the respective customer indicates his birth date and birthplace. Likewise, an attempt is possible to learn everything about the budget of the customer to the information obtained then being able to sell profitably.
Regularly, the post office was criticized in the ORF - series "Help " because of their practice that when redirection orders the addresses be utilized profitably, especially for the fact that the authorization for data transfer and Orchestra or revocation of the order is written too small and therefore by customers is often overlooked and thus leads to unpleasant surprises. Even if a customer of the disclosure of his data contradicted, data were disclosed. The post justified this by saying that, according to the company indication 86 % of customers would agree to a transfer. It is therefore in the program disclosure specified as "normal". The high percentage of course says nothing about how many of the customers have overlooked the possibility of withdrawal or may have understood wrong. The post has some time advertised that also mail-order houses and similar will be notified by the data disclosure and the customer therefore saves labor.
The Big Brother Awards Austria 2008, Swiss Post has won again for their handling of customer data with redirection orders and for data collecting mania redirection orders at the "lifelong nuisance " award.