Royal Mail suffers £1bn annual loss after year of strikes

The postal service is being investigated for failing to meet its delivery targets over the past year The group’s owner International Distribution Services (IDS) blamed the downturn on industrial action, which led to an operating loss of £1.04 billion for the year to 26 March, against earnings of £250 million …

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Royal Mail Plunges to £1 Billion Loss After Fight With Union

(Bloomberg) — Royal Mail reported an operating loss of £1 billion ($1.25 billion) after the beleaguered delivery service endured a long dispute with a trade union.  International Distributions Services Plc, which owns the UK postal service, said industrial action, a weak online retail market and severance costs from redundancies had …

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Snapshot: Glowing GLS still subsidising Royal Mail?

ID 47484044 © Exopixel | Dreamstime.com Sell-side research house Bernstein today ran the rule over International Distributions Services (IDS), the holding company controlling Royal Mail and logistics arm GLS. Before you get going, the scale of the problem is here below, sourced from IDS’s statement: “Group reported operating loss of …

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Strike chaos leads Royal Mail to £1bn loss

Group-wide loss of £748mn £539mn hit to carrying value  Royal Mail has reported an operating loss of over £1bn, after 12 months of strikes and inflationary pressures. International Distributions Services (IDS) as a whole – which also includes profitable European courier GLS – incurred a loss of £748mn. UK operations …

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Royal Mail blames strikes for £419m full-year loss

Royal Mail posted an annual adjusted operating loss of £419 million, its parent International Distributions Services has said, after a year marred by strikes. The results showed that the wider group, which includes Royal Mail UK and GLS, its international operation, reported an adjusted operating loss of £71 million for …

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