AMP GROUP A hundred years old and still going strong 
Without socialist Member of Parliament, Louis Bertrand, co-founder of the Peuple, Belgium would never have had "Messageries de la Presse". In his autobiography Memories of a socialist leader he describes how it all started: "In October 1885, while I was working as a dispatcher at La Réforme, my friend F. Chaté and I launched Les Messageries de la Presse at 3, rue du Persil, in Brussels." "It was a sound idea. by grouping together the dispatching of different newspapers to shops in a given location, we could make significant savings in delivery, wrapping, etc ..." From 1886 the "Messageries de la Presse" was successively known as "Dechenne & Cie", "Messageries de la Presse et Comptoir général de Bruxelles", "Agence Dechenne, Messageries de la Presse". Hachette first acquired holdings in the company in 1912. In 1945 the company was renamed "Agence et Messageries de la Presse - Persagentschap, Vervoer en Distributie" (AMP-PVD)". Since 1999 the company has been called AMP. |
