GLS to open 150 Parcel Shops in Belgium
German parcel service company General Logistics Systems (GLS) plans to open 150 ‘parcel shops’ in Belgium, the company said on November 15, 2005.
The first parcel dispatch outlets will be open in Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp by the end of 2005. The company aims at having 100 parcel shops in Belgium by 2007. The outlets will be opened at the newspaper stores of local shopping centres.
The company opened its first parcel shops in Germany in 1997. Currently it operates 2,500 outlets designed under the parcel shop concept.
Dutch mail and logistics company TNT NV has also announced its plans to start a parcel service in Belgium. The company has started a trial project at five newspaper shops in the Brussels region.
(Alternative/Original Name: Gent, Antwerpen)
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