Turnover: 35.4 billion EUR (2022)
Country: France
- La Poste is the main provider of postal services in France. It is state-owned and operates in France, including five French overseas departments.
- It is organized into 4 divisions
- Mail service
- Urgent dispatch and home parcel delivery (Chronopost)
- La Banque Postale
- Digital services(Chronopost)
News
50 million euros to be cut from local postal services 29/09/2024
- - Budget cut for La Poste: €50 million out of €160 million
- - Duration of territorial postal presence contract: 2023-2025
- - Initial annual appropriations for the contract: 177 million euros
- - Number of La Poste outlets covered by the contract: 17,000
- - Population coverage by the postal network: over 97% of the population within 5 km or 20 minutes of a postal outlet
- - Investments in territories since 2008: over 2.4 billion euros
Meal delivery, La Poste's future main business within 10 years 15/04/2024
- In 1990, mail accounted for 70% of La Poste's sales, but this figure will fall to 15% by the end of 2024.
- - The decline in mail over the last ten years has caused a loss of more than 6 billion euros in La Poste's sales.
- - La Poste has a 67% share of the domestic parcel delivery market in France, thanks to services such as Colissimo, Chronopost and DPD.
- - La Poste delivers over 15,000 meals a day in a market of 150,000 daily meals, making it the leading home delivery operator.
- - In 2023, La Poste delivered 5 million meals and plans to double this figure in 2024.
- - Currently, there are 7,000 post offices, with fewer than 5 customers a day in 40% of communal postal agencies, particularly in rural areas.
- - La Poste's mandate as postal operator expires at the end of 2025, and it intends to run for its own succession.
Orange, Free and Bouygues Telecom bid to acquire La Poste Mobile 16/02/2024
- La Poste Mobile is France's 5th largest mobile operator, with around 2 million customers.
- - The total value of the operator is estimated at between 600 and 750 million euros.
- - La Poste Mobile has been in existence since 2011, distributing low-cost packages in around 7,000 post offices.
- - The operator has enjoyed strong growth, with an average increase of 8% per year.
- - SFR owns 49% of La Poste Mobile and leases its network to the operator.
- - La Poste Mobile is interested in using the networks of Orange, Bouygues or Free, instead of SFR.
- - La Poste wants the brand to continue to exist and be distributed in its 7,000 post offices.
La Poste Mobile 17/01/2024
- La Poste Mobile was launched in 2011 by La Poste (with a 51% stake) and SFR (with a 49% stake).
- In the space of thirteen years, La Poste Mobile has become France's fifth-largest mobile telecoms operator, with over 2.3 million customers, or 4% of the French market.
- La Poste Mobile is distributed in some 7,000 post offices.
- Since its launch, La Poste Mobile has grown by 8% each year, outperforming the market.
- La Poste Mobile will be profitable in 2022. In 2024, its EBITDA is expected to reach 48 million euros, on sales of 336 million euros.
- Bouygues Telecom, another operator, has 15.4 million mobile customers.
- SFR lost 118,000 mobile subscribers in the third quarter, bringing its total to 20.4 million.
- Orange, France's leading operator, has 35.5 million mobile customers.
Philippe Wahl: "La Poste, multi-functional" | Philippe Wahl: "La Poste, multi-functional" 04/12/2023
- The number of letters sent in 2023 will be six billion, compared with 18 billion fifteen years ago.
- La Poste employs some 240,000 people, including 65,000 letter carriers.
- La Poste's plan calls for the delivery of five million meals by 2023, in over 200 towns and cities.
- la Poste, which specializes in parcels in France and abroad, accounts for 52% of La Poste group's sales
- La Poste develops a digital safe service with Docaposte.
La Poste enters the world of healthcare 19/10/2023
- La Poste has a network of 35,600 access points in France.
- Since 2017, La Poste has begun to diversify into the healthcare sector, acquiring several healthcare companies
- Currently, La Poste accompanies 140,000 patients at home on medical prescription.
- Nearly one million meals delivered to homes in one year.
- 30 million hospital admissions are managed each year using its administrative management software (Maincare).
- More than 300,000 teleconsultations have been carried out thanks to La Poste.
- La Poste has a digital cloud solution (NumSpot) "made in France".
- La Poste forecasts healthcare sales of 500 million euros by 2030, compared with 300 million today.
- La Poste has developed an AI solution for healthcare through its NumSpot subsidiary.
La Poste, the story of a silent revolution 15/03/2023
- - 238,952 employees in 2022
- - Sales of €35.4 billion in 2022 (52% generated by parcels, France and international), Net profit of €1.25 billion
- - Sales generated by La Banque Postale €8.3 billion
- - Mail sales €7 billion and €17.7 billion generated by parcels
- - Mail's share of La Poste's business halved in ten years
- 34% of La Poste's capital to be held by the French State by 2020 and 66% by Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
- - 8 million customers have stored their documents in the Digiposte digital safe
- - 17,000 points of contact (7,300 "real" post offices and 6,700 community postal agencies, 3,000 retail outlets) - 60,000 letter carriers and women
- - Numspot sovereign cloud project, with Dassault Systèmes, Bouygues Telecom and Banque des Territoires
- - Docaposte subsidiary could generate sales of 1 billion euros by 2026
Coworking: La Poste steps up its ambitions 21/07/2022
- La poste immobilier shareholder in Startway since 2016
- Startway manages 34 sites in France, including 15 in the regions
- La Poste Immobilier has just acquired Multiburo
- Multiburo 23 centers in France, 6 centers in Belgium and Switzerland cater to small businesses
- Startway's customers tend to be slightly larger companies looking for project space and overflow during construction work on their own premises.
Financial Data
DUNS: 356000000
Legal Name: LA POSTE
Address: 9 RUE DU COLONEL PIERRE AVIA DIRECTION GENERALE DE LA POSTE, 75015 PARIS 15
Number of employees: Plus de 10 000 salariés (2020)
Capital: 5 620 325 816 EUR
Financial Data:
| Year | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 11 134 000 000 | 10 663 000 000 | 11 317 000 000 | 11 462 000 000 | 11 746 000 000 | 11 882 000 000 | 12 031 000 000 |
| Gross margin (€) | 13 515 000 000 | 12 520 000 000 | 13 263 000 000 | 13 853 000 000 | 14 164 000 000 | 13 882 000 000 | - |
| EBITDA (€) | 7 696 000 000 | -939 000 000 | -491 000 000 | -490 000 000 | 15 000 000 | 153 000 000 | - |
| Operating profit (€) | -107 000 000 | -1 387 000 000 | -848 000 000 | -662 000 000 | -52 000 000 | -363 000 000 | - |
| Net profit (€) | 753 000 000 | -1 546 000 000 | -83 000 000 | 70 000 000 | 659 000 000 | 281 000 000 | 347 000 000 |
| Turnover growth rate (%) | 4,4 | -5,8 | -1,3 | -2,4 | -1,1 | -1,2 | - |
| Ebitda margin rate (%) | 69,1 | -8,8 | -4,3 | -4,3 | 0,1 | 1,3 | - |
| Operating margin rate (%) | -1 | -13 | -7,5 | -5,8 | -0,4 | -3,1 | - |
| Working Capital (turnover days) | -29,3 | -48,5 | -31,9 | -3,3 | -16,5 | -18,8 | - |
| Working Capital requirements (turnover days) | 18,1 | 27,4 | 22,2 | 16,3 | 14,4 | 15,3 | - |
| Net margin (%) | 6,8 | -14,5 | -0,7 | 0,6 | 5,6 | 2,4 | - |
| Added value / Turnover (%) | 48,5 | 50,8 | 56,1 | 57,1 | 63,7 | 62,3 | - |
| Wages and social charges (€) | 617 000 000 | 8 042 000 000 | 8 570 000 000 | 8 704 000 000 | - | 8 883 000 000 | - |
| Salaries / Turnover (%) | 5,5 | 75,4 | 75,7 | 75,9 | - | 74,8 | - |
Company Managers:
| Position | First Name | Last Name | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Président, Directeur général | Philippe | Wahl | 68 | |
| Administrateur | Françoise | Mairot | 79 | |
| Administrateur | Philippe | Lemoine | 75 | |
| Administrateur | Marie-Pierre | Richarte | 55 | |
| Administrateur | Corinne | Lejbowicz | 64 | |
| Administrateur | Virginie | Chapron | 63 | |
| Administrateur | Olivier | Sichel | 57 | |
| Administrateur | Franck | Gervais | 48 | |
| Administrateur | Catherine | Mayenobe | 60 | |
| Administrateur | Olivier | Mareuse | 61 | |
| Administrateur | Claire | Waysand | 55 | |
| Administrateur | Antoine | Saintoyant | 47 | |
| Commissaire aux comptes suppléant | Jean Christophe | Georghiou | 59 | |
| Administrateur représentant du personnel | Hugo | Reis | 52 | |
| Administrateur représentant du personnel | Stéphane | Chevet-Dehail | 49 | |
| Administrateur représentant du personnel | Sylvie | Joseph | 63 | |
| Administrateur représentant du personnel | Irène | Baudry | 48 | |
| Administrateur représentant du personnel | Franck | Haspot | 57 | |
| Administrateur représentant du personnel | Isabelle | Legain | 60 | |
| Administrateur représentant du personnel | Florence | Fimbel | 60 |
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