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Our way forward FUTURE@FP


Where are we today?

FP has a strong franking machine business. As number three in the world market, the company has clearly focused on the segment for small and medium mail volumes. To a certain extent, this is an advantage, as individual customers are sending fewer and fewer letters and are therefore more likely to switch to smaller franking machines. However, this does not compensate for the overall market decline in the sale of franking machines year on year due to the shrinking mail volumes.  

The future is digital

Digitalisation is spreading rapidly in many areas, and the Corona pandemic may accelerate this development further. We cannot yet accurately assess the impact today: will mail volumes decline more sharply on a once-off basis as a result of the pandemic, or will they also shrink at an accelerating rate in subsequent years? However, the trend is irreversible and we must act urgently. FP already has a few digital products, but the revenue share here is still too small to compensate for the declines in our franking business.

Products developed from a technical perspective often provide no clear benefit for the customer. We will change that by transforming existing products and building new ones with a clear value proposition for customers, as well as with business models that create an attractive customer experience. 

future@fp

Our way forward

With Future@FP, we will transform the FP Group into a sustainably-profitable international technology group with innovative software solutions.

With the clear objective of picking up speed in the digital business and to start growing, we are concentrating our activities in the following business units:

1. Digital Business Solutions

2. Mailing, Shipping & Office solutions

3. Mail Services

These business units have clear responsibility for market development (go-to-market) as well as their respective product roadmaps, development and delivery. They will own full P&L responsibility. This will empower them and enable us to serve our customers and markets better and more efficiently.

We will adapt our existing "Mailing, Shipping & Office Solutions" business to the changed market requirements in order to safeguard and further optimise profitability in this area. We will also expand our range of office and business solutions so that we can offer relevant added value to our more than 200,000 customers worldwide, even in a world without paper.

The franking machine is one component helping companies handle the broader set of physical, financial and information flows needed for conducting business. Similarly, helping our customers deal effectively with physical, financial and information flows presents opportunities for our SaaS and PaaS-based solutions such as FP Parcel Shipping, Vision360 (Mail Cost Accounting), FP Sign (Digital Signature), TransActMail and more. Put simply: We make people’s (home) office lives easier.

As such we are moving away from largely hardware-focused products to SaaS business models that are validated as a solution with a clear value proposition for customers. It is our intention for the medium term, that the digital business units will strongly contribute to the profitability of FP.

With the above-mentioned adaptations and our PaaS and SaaS solutions, we are driving forward the transformation of FP into an international technology group by enabling sales across several markets.

Change, and change now!

In order to drive this transformation forward in a targeted and timely manner, we are currently building the foundations for tomorrow's success. We will align revenues and costs through the measures "right-sizing" and "right-shoring" across functional areas.

The introduction of a new uniform ERP/CRM system is crucial in improving both effectiveness and efficiency and thereby profitability since it helps us to move to a much simpler and KPI-driven way of working.

To bring FP into the future we need to quickly align our cost base to our business needs, but that's just one of several initiatives. Broadly speaking the transformation programme Future@FP is not about cost reductions but about development and relevance. Future@FP captures the actions we will take for increasing profitability, achieving growth through (re)-building new and existing SaaS and PaaS solutions, while still mantaining a strong focus on the franking machine business.

With the measures already initiated, we are not only setting the course for a successful future, but are also clearly speeding things up on our way to becoming a strong, sustainably-profitable international technology company.

ABOUT FP

Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG, a listed company based in Berlin, is the holding company of the globally operating FP Group (FP). FP is an expert in solutions that make office and work life easier and more efficient. FP has the following business areas: Digital Business Solutions, Mailing, Shipping & Office Solutions and Mail Services. In the Digital Business Solutions business areas, FP optimises customers’ business processes and offers solutions such as electronic signatures, hybrid mail, input/output management for physical and digital documents and the data-driven automation of complex business processes. In the Mailing, Shipping & Office Solutions business area, FP is the world’s third-largest provider of mailing systems and market leader in Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, and Italy. FP has subsidiaries in 15 countries and is represented by its dealer network in many further countries. In the Mail Services business area, FP offers the consolidation of business mail and is among the leading providers in Germany. In 2021, FP generated revenue of more than EUR 200 million.


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