Triangle are pleased to announce the winners of this year's World Mail Awards.

Following a record level of applicants, this year's World Mail Awards, recognising excellence within the Postal sector, were presented to industry leaders last night on the eve of the World Mail & Express Europe Conference in Brussels.

A panel of distinguished judges selected the recipients of the nine awards, covering Innovation, Customer Service, Marketing, Security, Technology, e-Commerce, Transformation, Quality and Industry Leadership. The panel met in Brussels during the afternoon before the Awards presentation dinner, to make their final decisions from an already short-listed pool of entrants.

The World Mail Awards evening is organised annually by Triangle Management Services, to highlight, encourage, and celebrate best practice within the mail industry.

Almost three hundred senior mail industry executives from around the world attended the Gala Dinner to congratulate the winners. Former Miss Belgium and television celebrity, Anne de Baetzelier, presented the awards along with representatives from the sponsoring companies.

The following companies were this year's award winners:


CUSTOMER SERVICE (Sponsored by Innovapost)

USPS for its Change for the Better address updating service


e-COMMERCE (Sponsored by ME-News)

USPS with IBM for its Click-N-Ship online application for creating domestic and international shipping labels


INNOVATION (Sponsored by Capgemini)

USPS for its Intelligent Mail advanced barcoding services


MARKETING (Sponsored by Triangle Management Services)

Correios de Portugal for its Correio Verde (Easy Mail) size-based mailing product


QUALITY (Sponsored by Spring)

TNT Financial Services for its Royal Bank of Scotland Group Hub and Spoke internal mail solution


SECURITY (Sponsored by Royal Mail)

USPS for its multimedia prevention initiatives to protect and educate American consumers


TECHNOLOGY (Sponsored by Intermec)

Kiala for its redesigned Collection Point parcel delivery system


TRANSFORMATION (Sponsored by Accenture)

Correos de Chile for a successful change in the operating system of the express post mail in Chile


INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP (sponsored by Pitney Bowes)

The winner for 2005 is Helge Israelsen, Chief Executive, Post Danmark


Next year's World Mail Awards and World Mail & Express Europe will be held in Paris on 10 May 2006.

Applications for next year will be open from January 2006 at www.mailawards.com

Notes to the Editor

• This is the 6th World Mail Awards and is an annual programme

• Next year’s ceremony will be on 10th May at the Sofitel Forum Rive Gauche Hotel in Paris

• World Mail & Express (WMX) events have been running since 1988. They are organised by Triangle Management Services, based in the UK

• 2005 will also see WMX events in America, and Mail and Express Summits in the UK

• For further information or copies of photographs from the event please contact Triangle on +44 (0) 8709 507900.
  
  
  Triangle Management Services Ltd, founded in 1984, is today the pre-eminent independent specialist management services company within the global mail, express and logistics sectors. Triangle offers the following services to clients: Recruitment, Market Research, Consultancy, Conferences and Mergers and Acquisitions - all of which are focused primarily on the mail and express industry sectors.