Posten Norge

Posten Norge AS

Type	State owned limited company
Founded	1647
Founder(s)	Henrik Morian
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Key people	Dag Mejdell (CEO) Arvid Moss (Chairman)
Products	Mail
Revenue	NOK 19,995 million (2005)
Employees	20,500
Parent	Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications
Subsidiaries	ErgoGroup Nor-Cargo Frigoscandia Box CityMail Pan Nordic Logistics
Website	www.posten.no

A local post office, in Sandviken, Bergen

Posten Norge or Norway Post is the name of the Norwegian postal service. The word posten means the post or the mail in Norwegian. The company, owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications holds a monopoly on distribution of mail throughout the country.

History

Posten was founded in 1647 under the name Postvesenet by Henrik Morian. It was established as a private company, and the Dano-Norwegian king Christian IV gave his blessing to the founding of the company. Postvesenet was privately run until 1719, when the Dano-Norwegian state took over. From that point on, national postal service was a state monopoly. The local city postal services remained private, but in 1888 a new postal law was introduced which expanded the monopoly to the entire country.

In 1933, Postvesenet was renamed to Postverket. In 1996, Posten Norge BA was established as a state-owned company in which the Norwegian state had limited liability. In 2002 Posten changed its corporate structure into a stock company, as a process of preparing the company to an expected deregulation of the Norwegian postal market. Posten Norge AS is still fully owned by the Norwegian state and the liberalization process has been postponed until 2011 by the government ^[1].

The postal service ^[2] is divided into four divisions ^[3]: Post, Logistics, Distribution Network and ErgoGroup AS. The latter specializing in electronic services and outsourcing.

Expansion

In 2002 the private Swedish postal company CityMail was partly bought, with Norway Post acquiring 57% of the shares in 2002 and the remaining 43% in the first quarter of 2006. Norway Post also owns, or partly owns Nor-Cargo, Frigoscandia, Box Solutions, Box- Group/-Delivery, Pan Nordic Logistics (PNL), Scanex B.V., Nettlast Hadeland, which many have their own subsidiaries.

See also

• Posten (Sweden), the Swedish postal service
• List of oldest companies

References

1. ^ http://www.posten.no/Portal/NyheterPresse/Pressemeldinger/02102007pmeuliberalisering.htm
2. ^ Norway Post
3. ^ Divisions and Corporate Staffs

External links

• [1] - English version of the official site of Norway Post
• [2] The four divisions
• [3] Norway Post Logistics subsidiaries