Swiss Post’s business activities

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Swiss Post wants to continue to be a company that operates without government support. This model obliges Swiss Post to finance its high-quality public services with profits that it generates itself. To earn the revenue required to do this, Swiss Post must remain relevant to its customers. The challenge for Swiss Post, therefore, is to continually adapt all of its products and services to changing requirements.

To allow it to respond quickly to current and future trends, Swiss Post intends to make targeted and increased investments where its growth opportunities lie: in the coming years, the company will focus on the logistics and communication markets, in which it aims to continue growing. While there is limited room for manoeuvre in the mobility market (PostBus), the financial services market (PostFinance) and the postal network (PostalNetwork), these units do also make an important contribution to the new strategy.

Logistics Services

Domestic and international business – with courier, express and parcel logistics, mail and services over the last mile – have made up Swiss Post’s core business in Switzerland for many years. In these areas, Swiss Post aims to fulfil its universal service obligation, consolidate its strong position in Switzerland and continue to develop internationally. Swiss Post will ensure an effective and sustainable connection between the Swiss economy and international goods flows with its relevant and innovative logistics services.

In the media and advertising market, Swiss Post plans in particular to develop tailored services for cross-channel communication and the newspaper and magazine business.

In goods logistics, Swiss Post seeks to provide companies with easy access to the global market. To do so, Swiss Post is making targeted investments in the domestic market and, where necessary, in neighbouring countries. Swiss Post also combines previous industry know-how with existing logistics expertise and develops relevant industry solutions.

Through its digital logistics platforms, Swiss Post facilitates logistics services and is expanding its range of value-added services.

Communication Services

Our everyday life is becoming more and more digital, and people’s needs are changing. Data and simple, careful data handling are becoming increasingly important. Communication Services supports this development and is bringing mail secrecy into the digital world. In doing so, we’re focusing on the needs of private individuals, companies, public authorities and the healthcare sector. We facilitate intuitive digital interaction for them and the simple and secure handling of their data.

PostalNetwork

Swiss Post is close to the population and SMEs and physical present in all regions of Switzerland. The nationwide universal service comprises around 5,000 access points such as branches, terminals and the home service. Around 2,000 access points are served, of which around 600 continue to be managed as self-operated branches.

Swiss Post has opened up its premises and advisory services to major service providers from the health insurance, banking and insurance sectors as well as to public authorities, enabling them to maintain their proximity to their customers. By taking this step, Swiss Post is establishing new service centers in all regions of Switzerland with products and services that are relevant to everyday life.

Mobility Services

PostBus is number one in road-based public passenger transport in Switzerland. PostBus intends to continue strengthening this position, as the Swiss public transport system needs to remain attractive and meet customer requirements in the future. To achieve this goal, PostBus is systematically forging strategic partnerships – including with other public transport companies – to develop customer-friendly, environmentally-friendly and affordable services for all residents of Switzerland. Because half of regional passenger transport is publicly funded, PostBus does everything it can to ensure that the compensatory payments from the Confederation, cantons and municipalities are used as efficiently as possible.

Swiss Post supplements its services in the mobility market with Post Company Cars, Switzerland’s biggest manufacturer-independent full-service fleet management company.

The companies operating in the mobility services sector wish to jointly leverage cross-company synergies – for example by developing new multimodal solutions. These are intended to be simple, efficient, sustainable and digitally connected.

PostFinance

PostFinance is accelerating the pace of digital transformation and is focusing ever more consistently on its customers’ requirements with its new “SpeedUp” strategy. It now divides its core business into four business units.

In Payment Solutions, PostFinance is becoming the leading reliable partner for payment and debt collection solutions for retailers and invoice issuers in Switzerland. In Retail Banking, PostFinance provides its private and business customers with proven solutions and advice on the smartest way to manage money – both physically and digitally. With Digital First Banking, it is developing a brand new service for “Banking & Beyond” geared entirely to the digital world. In Platform Business, PostFinance aims to build on Valuu to create an independent Swiss platform for comparing and taking out financing, insurance and pension solutions.

PostFinance hopes to be able to issue loans and mortgages independently in future. This decision lies with the Swiss Parliament.