Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky will become the chairman of British parcel and postal firm Royal Mail, his investment firm ...

Consignia, which operates Royal Mail, Parcel Force and the post office network, is likely to offer voluntary redundancies and Mr Leighton is also expected to announce that the company's name will ...

In this video, Des Beach, a Royal Mail delivery worker with 31-years’ service, speaks about his unfair dismissal with Tony Robson from the World Socialist Web Site .

John Roberts, Post Office/Consignia/Royal Mail chief executive, 1995-2002. Image source, PA. Image caption, John Roberts.

Royal Mail to Consignia. Twitter rebranding to X reminds me of Royal Mail changing its name to Consignia. Yeah. It didn’t last long. It won’t if your original name is so impactful and known.

In 2001, with plans to expand into overseas markets, Royal Mail changed its name to Consignia. A year later, after financial losses mounted, it changed the name back again.

Royal Mail's sales in the three months to the end of June came in at £1.88bn - down 11.5% on the same period last year and up just 0.4% on the same period in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.

People like to scoff at change. Proverbial mouthfuls of coffee were spat out when Norwich Union became Aviva. Royal Mail’s ill-fated, short-lived name change to Consignia had about as much chance as ...

Not if you remember Royal Mail becoming Consignia.” Royal Mail spent £2m in 2001 on a botched attempt to change the name of the Post Office to Consignia. John Roberts, ...

In 2001, following two years of brand analysis by consultancy Dragon Brands, the Post Office subsidiary of the Royal Mail was relaunched as ‘Consignia’. The Consignia logo. Yes really.