PB Worldwide
- Founded 1920 in Conneticut, USA
- Global leader in mail and document management
- More than $5.6 billion in global revenue
- Fortune 500 company
- 34,000 employees worldwide
- Over 2 million business customers
- Over $1 billion invested in new technology over the last 10 years
- 61% market share of installed meters worldwide
- Market leader in the UK, the US, Canada and France, #2 in Germany
PB International
- Operations in 27 countries
- Over 6,400 employees
- Spans four continents with a direct Pitney Bowes presence
- Many more geographies through dealer partners
- In 2006, responsible for revenues of over $1 billion
Postal stats*
- Germany, France and the UK account for 71% of the European postal services market
- Posts in the EU carry on average 265 items of post per person per year
- The European Mail Order Association (EMOTA) estimates that mail order operators generated over 50 billion Euros in sales via mail order in 2005
- Germany is the most deregulated market in Europe. Private posts doubled their revenues in 2005 and postage expense savings for business mail reached €30 million
- The largest user of direct mail in the EU is France, sending 26 billion items every year
- The UK is the second largest sender of international mail (582m) after the US (819m)
*Source: Direct Information Service, Royal Mail & Deutsche Post. |