Whistl
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Postal services |
| Predecessor | PostNL |
| Founded | 15 September 2014 |
| Headquarters | Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK |
Number of locations | 14 depots |
Key people | Ian Keilty (CEO), Nick Wells (Executive Chairman) |
| Services | Business mail services, Addressed mail sorting, Leaflet advertising, Parcel delivery, Third-party logistics, Contact centre services, Product sampling |
| Owner | Management (82.5%) PostNL (17.5%) |
Number of employees | 2,400 (2023) |
| Website | www |
The Whistl Group is a UK-based logistics and delivery management specialist headquartered in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. Its businesses provide domestic and international mail and parcel delivery management, unaddressed leaflet advertising, product sampling, eCommerce fulfilment, and contact centre services. The company is the largest downstream access provider in the UK postal market, processing over 50% of bulk business mail.
Overall, Whistl handles more than 3.6 billion mail and parcel items annually and has over 1 million square feet of fulfilment warehouse space across the United Kingdom.
Whistl is a competitor and partner to other businesses involved in mail and parcel distribution, such as Royal Mail, UK Mail, DHL, Evri, Parcelforce, UPS and Yodel.
The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch delivery company PostNL until October 2015, when a management buyout was completed. PostNL remained a minority shareholder.