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Mail Boxes Etc’s UK operation MBE UK & Ireland has been acquired by MBE Worldwide as the Milan-based company continues to expand its community of directly operated countries.
The deal, which was completed on 31 March, saw MBE Worldwide purchase the business from the former master licensee, Mail Boxes Etc (UK) Ltd, which Simon Cowie was the chairman of.
MBE Worldwide is a third-party provider of shipping, fulfilment, print and marketing services that operates under different complementary brands: Mail Boxes Etc (except in the US and Canada), AlphaGraphics, PostNet, Spedingo.com, Print Speak, Pack & Send, and Multicopy.
Focusing on the first and last mile of shipping services, mainly in the express courier business segment, it also serves clients as a local provider of customised marketing and print.
Circa £23m-turnover MBE UK & Ireland, meanwhile, runs a high street network of 153 Mail Boxes Etc post, parcel and print centres across the UK and Ireland. Founded in 1993 and based in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, the company is run by licensed franchisees. Read more
Source: PRINTWEEK
