DPD/NKD Pickup partnership reaches the one-million-parcel milestone

DPD has announced that one million parcels have now been delivered through its Pickup parcelshop arrangement with German retailer NKD, less than a year after the partnership began. In a statement posted on its website on Thursday (14 April), DPD said: “Just under one year from the launch of the strategic parcel-shop partnership between DPD and NKD in Germany, the companies are registering growing parcel volumes. This is confirmed by the fact that the one-millionth parcel has now been delivered via the Pickup parcelshops in over 1,300 branches of NKD.”

The DPD parcelshops are now located in every branch of NKD in Germany. Customers can send and received parcels and also use the parcelshops for returns.

“We regard the achievement of one million parcels processed at our parcel shops as impressive confirmation of our successful partnership with DPD,” commented Christian Welles, Director of Sales at NKD Holdings.

“With every parcel we are providing our customers with an additional service. In addition the parcels business boosts customer footfall in the branches of NKD, which provides significant conversion potential.”