DPD ups number of deliveries in CzechRep by 25 pct in 2005
Czech express delivery provider DPD said it dispatched five million deliveries within the Czech Republic last year, up 25 percent year-on-year. Sales rose by one-third thanks to a growth in the number of more expensive deliveries abroad, the company said in a press release. Sales from international deliveries more than doubled against 2004. The largest number of deliveries headed for Germany and Slovakia. The growth was due to an increase in exports after the Czech Republic joined the EU in 2004, said Daniel Mares, chief executive of DPD’s Czech branch. “The year 2005 was the most successful year in DPD’s eleven-year operation in the Czech Republic,” Mares added. DPD’s largest rivals on the Czech market are the Czech Post Office (Ceska posta) and courier company PPL. PPL was bought by logistics firm DHL at the end of last year. Annual sales of the Czech express delivery market amount to between Kc4bn to Kc5bn. DPD last year built a new transhipment depot in Karlovy Vary, western Bohemia, and launched construction of a logistics centre in Modletice near Prague which it plans to open in summer this year. The new centre worth around EUR5bn will also comprise DPD’s Czech headquarters. DPD, a unit of multinational group GeoPost, has been active in the Czech Republic since 1994.
