The Latest Breaking News from Evri

The last few months have been busy for Royal Mail. In late April, Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group acquired its parent company, International Distribution Services, for £3.6 billion – a value well below the May 2021 peak of £6 billion.

The West Yorkshire-based group said it delivered more than 807 million parcels over the year to the end of February.

German firm DHL is looking to expand its reach in the UK by merging its British ecommerce unit with Evri. The CMA will now examine the risks for competition.

The CMA will look into whether the deal could ‘result in a substantial lessening of competition’ in the postal delivery sector.

A deal between the two groups has created one of the UK’s largest delivery firms

The new roles are set to bring its total self-employed courier network to 33,000, its highest number.

The two operations will bring together more than 30,000 couriers and van drivers

German-owned DHL Group will acquire a ‘significant minority stake’ in Evri as part of the deal.

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InPost, which has 10,000 parcel lockers in the UK, said the deal will help it ‘revolutionise’ the delivery market.

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