InPost, a Polish-founded logistics company perhaps best known for its parcel lockers, has announced its ‘strategic takeover’ of UK-based parcel delivery company Yodel.
InPost plans to take advantage of Yodel’s ‘strong home delivery capabilities’, to ‘scale its operations significantly, expand its service offering, and provide greater convenience to
retailers and customers’.
The takeover of Yodel, InPost believes, will allow it to achieve a number of ‘key strategic objectives’, including the diversification of InPost’s volume by segment and geographically and ‘accelerated UK growth and market share expansion’.
With this new acquisition, InPost claims that its market share has risen to approximately 8%. This transaction follows InPost’s acquisition of Menzies Distribution in October 2024.
Yodel faced going into administration in February 2024, but was set to be rescued by rival Shift. However, the merger did not go ahead as planned, with Yodel instead announcing in August 2024 that it had secured an £85 million funding package through a new ownership structure.
InPost has acquired 95.5% of Judge Logistics Ltd, Yodel’s parent company, while PayPoint has retained a minority stake of 4.5%.
With over 8,000 parcel lockers across the UK, InPost began working with Yodel in October 2024, when Yodel began to provide last-mile services through InPost’s ‘locker-to-door’ service.
Rafał Brzoska, founder and CEO of InPost Group, commented: “This acquisition marks a pivotal milestone in InPost’s journey to revolutionise the UK delivery market as well as the group’s pan-European presence.
“We have just fast-forwarded five years of organic expansion in the UK and it is a clear reflection of our long-term commitment to this market, a market where we see enormous opportunity for growth. Our logistics model has transformed delivery in other European markets, and with this acquisition, we are now well positioned to do the same here.”
Brzoska founded InPost in 1999 in Poland, where the company now claims to work with a total of over 52,000 retailers and have a market share of 45%. The company also has operations in other European countries, including Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Neil Kuschel, CEO of InPost UK, added: “This acquisition is a game-changer for InPost’s operations in the UK. Combining doorstep deliveries with our unrivalled locker network, we are reshaping the future of parcel delivery.
“We will be able to provide customers and e-commerce retailers with the reliability, flexibility, and efficiency they expect. We’re excited to deliver more for the UK.”
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