Czech Billionaire & ex-Lawyer Daniel Kretinsky EPH to Buy UK Postal Service & Courier Company Royal Mail for $4.5 Billion from International Distributions Services Which Owns Royal Mail & GLS, Daniel Kretinsky Owns English Premier League West Ham United Football Club & Czech Republic Sparta Prague Football Club, ex-Law Firm J&T Founded EPH in 2009 with Daniel Kretinsky Appointed as Chairman with 20% Shareholding, Took Ownership of EPH in 2016 with 94% Shareholding, Another Investment Holding Company Vesa Equity Investment Sarl is Largest Shareholder of Foot Locker & Holds 27% Shares of West Ham United Football Club
31st May 2024 | Hong Kong
Czech billionaire & ex-lawyer Daniel Kretinsky EPH is buying UK postal service & courier company Royal Mail for $4.5 billion (£3.57 billion) from International Distributions Services (IDS) which owns Royal Mail & GLS. Daniel Kretinsky owns English Premier League West Ham United football club & Czech Republic Sparta Prague football club. His ex-law firm J&T founded EPH in 2009 with Daniel Kretinsky appointed as Chairman with 20% shareholding. In 2016, Daniel Kretinsky took ownership of EPH in 2016 with 94% shareholding. Another investment holding company (Daniel Kretinsky) Vesa Equity Investment Sarl is the largest shareholder of Foot Locker, and also holds 27% shares of West Ham United football club. Daniel Křetínský – Daniel Křetínský was born in Brno in 1975. He studied at Masaryk University’s Faculty of Law and at the same faculty became a Bachelor of Political Science. After his studies, he worked as a trainee lawyer in Brno’s Gottweis & Partner law office. In 1999, he began working for J&T investment group, becoming a partner in it in 2003. In 2009 he was involved in the founding of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH) within the J&T Group. He is Chair of the Board of the holding, minority owner of EP Industries and head of the AC Sparta Praha football club. EP Global Commerce (EPGC) is an acquisition group of companies controlled by Daniel Křetínský, with current shareholding of 53%, who is acting in concert with other shareholder Patrik Tkáč, who currently holds shareholding of 47% of EPGC. It was founded in April 2016 and is headquartered in Prague. Royal Mail is an established brand with more than 500 years of history, from its beginning as a postal service exclusively for the King and his Court to the international delivery service it is today. Since 2013, the service has been a public listed company on the London Stock Exchange as a subsidiary of International Distributions Services plc.
“ Czech Billionaire & ex-Lawyer Daniel Kretinsky EPH to Buy UK Postal Service & Courier Company Royal Mail for $4.5 Billion from International Distributions Services Which Owns Royal Mail & GLS, Daniel Kretinsky Owns English Premier League West Ham United Football Club & Czech Republic Sparta Prague Football Club, ex-Law Firm J&T Founded EPH in 2009 with Daniel Kretinsky Appointed as Chairman with 20% Shareholding, Took Ownership of EPH in 2016 with 94% Shareholding, Another Investment Holding Company Vesa Equity Investment Sarl is Largest Shareholder of Foot Locker & Holds 27% Shares of West Ham United Football Club “
Daniel Křetínský – Daniel Křetínský was born in Brno in 1975. He studied at Masaryk University’s Faculty of Law and at the same faculty became a Bachelor of Political Science. After his studies, he worked as a trainee lawyer in Brno’s Gottweis & Partner law office. In 1999, he began working for J&T investment group, becoming a partner in it in 2003. In 2009 he was involved in the founding of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH) within the J&T Group. He is Chair of the Board of the holding, minority owner of EP Industries and head of the AC Sparta Praha football club. EP Global Commerce (EPGC) is an acquisition group of companies controlled by Daniel Křetínský, with current shareholding of 53%, who is acting in concert with other shareholder Patrik Tkáč, who currently holds shareholding of 47% of EPGC. It was founded in April 2016 and is headquartered in Prague.
Royal Mail is an established brand with more than 500 years of history, from its beginning as a postal service exclusively for the King and his Court to the international delivery service it is today. Our postmen and women are committed to delivering six days a week to the 32 million homes across the United Kingdom. Since 2013, the service has been a public listed company on the London Stock Exchange as a subsidiary of International Distributions Services plc. To this day our leadership and shareholders, which includes Royal Mail employees, have been committed to continuing and further strengthening our postal service’s reputation for reliability and consistency. Prior to privatisation, Post Office Limited was a subsidiary of Royal Mail Group, Royal Mail holding responsibility for delivering letters and parcels and the Post Office providing over the counter services. In 2011 The Postal Services Act was passed, paving the way for the separation of Royal Mail Group Ltd and Post Office Ltd in 2012 ahead of the privatisation of Royal Mail in 2013. In recent years, Royal Mail has been optimising its network to compete efficiently in the structural growth parcels market, alongside its traditional letters business. We are a modern, digitally innovative brand, connecting customers, companies and countries. Transforming our network and working practices to handle more parcels is a key part of our growth plan as we seek to make the most of the opportunity we have in the market. It was important before, but the growth in parcels we saw during the pandemic makes it even more so. Our two new state-of-the-art automated Parcel Hubs in Warrington and Daventry provide us with the infrastructure we need to compete in the growing parcels market.
Czech Billionaire & ex-Lawyer Daniel Kretinsky EPH to Buy UK Postal Service & Courier Company Royal Mail for $4.5 Billion from International Distributions Services Which Owns Royal Mail & GLS, Daniel Kretinsky Owns English Premier League West Ham United Football Club & Czech Republic Sparta Prague Football Club, ex-Law Firm J&T Founded EPH in 2009 with Daniel Kretinsky Appointed as Chairman with 20% Shareholding, Took Ownership of EPH in 2016 with 94% Shareholding, Another Investment Holding Company Vesa Equity Investment Sarl is Largest Shareholder of Foot Locker & Holds 27% Shares of West Ham United Football Club
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