Deutsche Post targeted by TNT Germany
The German arm of TNT is joining forces with regional press groups in an attempt to quell Deutsche Post’s domination of the distribution market, a company executive has said.
The German arm of TNT is joining forces with regional press groups in an attempt to quell Deutsche Post’s domination of the distribution market, a company executive has said.
AFP report that “TNT Germany wants “to ally itself with competitors that have worked against each other until now rather than uniting their forces against Deutsche Post,” citing quotes from Mario Frusch in the Financial Times Deutschland.
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Frusch said he was in talks with the southern German editor Dieter Schaub and northern counterpart Madsack, which publish the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Stuttgarter Zeitung and Hannoversche Allgemeine newspapers.
In May, TNT Germany bought a stake in a company that distributes mail for the Holtzbrinck publishing house.
Frusch wants to raise his company’s share of the market to 10% from three at present.
“I am not especially proud of having just 3% of the market 10 years after our launch in Germany,” he said.
Although the German postal distribution market has been opened up to competition, it remains largely dominated by the legacy group Deutsche Post.
A law that installed a minimum wage in the sector undercut competitors, while Deutsche Post is exempt from a sales tax because it must provide service to all parts of the country.
