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PayPoint to pay special dividend following the £43.9 million strategic investment in Collect+ by International Distribution Services

September 2025

On 30th September 2025, PayPoint announced that Royal Mail’s parent company International Distribution Services had made a £43.9 million strategic investment in Collect+, by taking a 49% share in the parcel network.

Currently, Collect+ has a network of over 14,000 Out of Home locations in the UK, of which almost 8,000 offer Royal Mail collect, send and return parcel services today. As part of the next stage in this partnership, an initial 500 of these sites have been upgraded to deliver Royal Mail over the counter services, enabling customers to buy postage in store from today, as part of almost 8,000 sites which will have Royal Mail Shop branding rolled out from October. Over the next 12 months, the intention is to expand the rollout of Royal Mail over the counter services through the network, including the launch of self-service kiosks during Q1 2026.

 

Posting of circular and general meeting

The Perivan shareholder communications team were delighted to work with Pinsent Masons who acted as legal advisers on the documentation which was successfully produced and posted to qualifying shareholders on 30th September 2025.

Following the general meeting on 17th October 2025, PayPoint made a further announcement confirming that the resolutions to approve the Special Dividend, the Share Consolidation and certain related matters, each of the resolutions were duly passed by shareholders.

 

Perivan specialise in producing and publishing financial documents relating to shareholder and investor communications for quoted companies and are a market leader in the production of documentation relating to corporate finance transactions.

 

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