Poste Italiane lands in China with two aggregators created in joint venture with logistics groups that will manage orders placed by Italian customers in the country. This was announced by the CEO of the company, Matthew Del Fantein an interview given to La Repubblica.
The manager took stock of this 2020, a difficult year for all companies grappling with the economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. “Not only did we remain standing, giving continuity to our service, but we have also gone beyond ordinary services, unlike many other competitors abroad”. The company has taken various actions to allow employees to work safely (masks, sanitization and smart working above all), but has also "delivered over a billion masks free of charge in places where it was not easy to reach, to civil protection, to schools , to the prefectures”, anticipated and staggered the date of withdrawal of pensions to avoid gatherings, distributed free of charge Spid, of which Poste Italiane is the leading supplier in Italy.
Progress has also been made in logistics, also driven by the e-commerce boom recorded during the emergency. Poste Italiane handles approximately 1,5 million parcels daily and is preparing to work on vaccines. Del Fante explains to the Roman newspaper what the great work to be done will be: “Behind the platform that tracks the vaccines, from the moment of their arrival in Italy to the moment in which the single dose is injected, there are our IT skills. The better and sooner the path of the vaccines is traced and the sooner they can be administered », specifies the CEO.
Despite the efforts, however, the economic repercussions of Covid There are. The first two quarters closed with the accounts in the red, while the third showed i first signs of recovery. “The fourth quarter will be affected by the new lockdowns, but to a lesser extent,” Del Fante anticipates Republic, even if a double-digit decline is not expected for the turnover. “For other values it is not yet the time to express themselves”.
For 2021, Poste Italiane aims to restart its financial activity after the postal savings record set in 2020. News will also arrive on life policies: "We are gradually moving towards slightly higher risk profiles to ensure returns that otherwise with interest rates at zero, they would be impossible”. In addition, the new Motor TPL will start in January through Generali and Unipol products sold in Poste branches.
