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DHL recruits three new members to its Business Development Team

Posted by | Mar 9, 2005 | |

DHL Freight has further strengthened its Business Development team with three new appointments reflecting an increased focus on the Contract Logistics and Pallet Network markets.

Kevin Bennett has been appointed as General Marketing Manager. Kevin will be managing, co-ordinating and implementing all of the marketing and communications activities alongside the central marketing function. He will be responsible for the marketing team based at the Birmingham Head Office which supports the logistics and pallet network businesses.

Kevin has gained extensive marketing experience having held a number of senior positions in the logistics and transport sectors including National Express and Business Post.

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Nippon Express, Mitsubishi to merge Chineses distribution ops

Posted by | Mar 9, 2005 | |

Nippon Express and Mitsubishi Corp. plan to integrate their distribution businesses in China to create a nationwide network catering to Japanese firms operating there, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun learned Tuesday. The major transporter and the trading house intend to establish a joint holding company in Japan by June that will be capitalized at about 1.2 billion yen (USD11.5 million). Nippon Express is to take a 51 per cent stake and Mitsubishi the remainder. The firms are expected to sell their shareholdings in their combined six Chinese subsidiaries to the holding company, which will integrate the partners’ distribution operations in China. The new firm will control Nippon Express’ and Mitsubishi’s combined 106 sites in the country.

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The postal perspective: 2006

Posted by | Mar 9, 2005 | |

Presentation at IEA by Pal Szabo, Hungary Post / Magyar Posta.
Hungary post strategy and postal facts, effects of liberalisation. Predicted mail volumes to 2008 for Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands & Spain.
P:LibraryIEA European Postal Services Mch05Pal_Szabo_Magyar Posta Hungary.pdf

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Hand Held Products Signs Major Contract With La Poste Subsidiary

Posted by | Mar 9, 2005 | |

Hand Held Products, the worldwide leader in image-based data collection solutions, has signed a EUR10 million pan-European agreement with DPD, a subsidiary of La Poste and part of the Geopost group. This involves hardware and software for an automated delivery scan system.

DPD tested solutions from several vendors before choosing Hand Held Products’ Dolphin(R) 9500 as the basis of its new system. The 9500 is a rugged mobile computer with powerful scanning capabilities and a triple radio with GSM / GPRS, wireless LAN and Bluetooth applications. DPD is initially purchasing over 6,000 customised Dolphins for its depots and delivery trucks in Germany, Switzerland and Benelux.

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Rival to Royal Mail stamp starts trials

Posted by | Mar 9, 2005 | |

DX Services, Britain’s longest established private mail business, is to start trials next month of a new blue and white stamp for business mail in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

If successful, the stamp, believed to be the first official competitor to the Royal Mail stamp, will be made available throughout the UK later this year. DX Services, a FTSE 250 company whose clients include Clifford Chance, Linklaters and several major banks and insurance companies, said that the stamp would be the same price as a Royal Mail first-class stamp.

Its unique selling point will be the guarantee to deliver mail before the start of the next working day.

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French La Poste to transfer ISP customers to neuf telecom

Posted by | Mar 9, 2005 | |

French mail service La Poste has decided to stop providing its internet access service from 30 April, due to competition from rivals who are reducing rates while at the same time increasing bandwidth and offering internet, TV and phone services at the same time, La Tribune reports. La Poste said that its customers would be redirected towards neuf telecom, its technical service provider. La Poste did not reveal how many customers it had. If the subscribers sign up by 15 April, their accounts will be automatically transferred to neuf telecom. La Poste will maintain its laposte.net e-mail service, which has over four million users and more than 100 million page views, at a rate of over ten million visits per month.

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