Active Ants and Staci join forces to boost e-commerce in France
Active Ants is setting up a Staci site in the Lyon region of France.
Thursday 3 July 2025Building on their successful collaboration in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, the two logistics experts, subsidiaries of bpostgroup, are now joining forces in France.
Active Ants, already present with four logistics centres in Europe totalling more than 62,000 m², dispatches 10 million e-commerce orders a year, and will be setting up in the Lyon region in September. On one of Staci's platforms, the Dutch subsidiary of bpostgroup will be supporting one of its existing customers in its expansion in France.
"Staci offers us a fantastic opportunity to launch our business in France, with a first customer that we are already supporting in two key markets: the UK and Belgium. We are proud to be extending this partnership here in France, alongside Staci", says Bram Blondé, CEO of Active Ants.
Placing logistics excellence at the heart of e-commerce performance in France
Working alongside Active Ants, Staci will boost its responsiveness and efficiency to meet the growing demand from the French market. The alliance between Active Ants' mechanised solutions and Staci's customised digital, logistics and transport tools will optimise the experience of e-retailers.
"Staci and Active Ants share strong values and the same ambition: to design tailor-made solutions to continually improve the customer experience. Together, we are ready to place automated logistics excellence at the heart of e-commerce performance in France," concludes Thomas Mortier, CEO of Staci.
About Active Ants:Active Ants, a Dutch subsidiary of bpostgroup, specialises in fully mechanised and digitalised e-commerce logistics. Founded to make the logistics of online shops more efficient and accurate, Active Ants combines cutting-edge technologies (mobile robots, automated sorting systems, customised packaging, artificial intelligence) with a sustainable, customer-centric approach and offers integrated logistics solutions covering goods receipt, intelligent warehousing, automated order picking, customised packaging and shipping to end consumers worldwide. Active Ants currently operates four state-of-the-art logistics centres in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the UK, with a total surface area of more than 62,000 m². The company employs more than 400 people and is actively pursuing its European expansion, soon to include France. www.activeants.com
About Staci:Staci, a subsidiary of bpostgroup, is a leader in B2B and B2C retail logistics, D2C and e-commerce for a customer base of large network groups (retail, supermarkets and hypermarkets, oil companies, food processing, laboratories, hotel and restaurant chains, banks, insurance companies, telephone operators, car manufacturers, industry, etc.) and the public sector. Staci offers tailor-made logistics solutions for both bar-coded products (ADSL boxes, telephony, spare parts, accessories, cosmetics, equipment, FMCG, high-tech, food, etc.) and non-bar-coded products (POS, merchandising, printed matter, consumables, etc.).
Staci offers a comprehensive range of services thanks to the know-how, processes, digital solutions and information system it has developed in retail picking, pooling of resources and warehouses, transport optimisation and stock financing. Staci has over 90 sites in Asia, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States, and is expected to achieve sales of €795m in 2024 with a workforce of 5,000.www.staci.com