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DHL UK places environmental management firmly on the agenda

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

DHL is putting consideration for the environment at the heart of business today with the implementation of an environmental management software system from Entropy International, the first of its kind to be deployed by a UK logistics company. The decision has been prompted by requests from DHL customers to have access to auditable reports on the company`s environmental policy and practice, and DHL`s commitment to increased transparency in documenting the impact of its business on the environment.

The program will be used across a majority of DHL`s premises in the UK and Ireland, with roll-out expected in 2005, as part of the organisation`s commitment to achieving ISO14001 accreditation by 2007.

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Business Post enters the FTSE 250 Share Index

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

It was announced by the London Stock Exchange this week that Business Post Group plc has entered the FTSE 250 share index. Business Post’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Carvell, commented that this marks another major milestone in the continuing development of the Group. “This had been on the cards for some time” he said, “but it came a little earlier than we had expected. The market capitalisation of the Group has grown as a result of recent increases in our share price but we had, in any case, been on the threshold of entry to the index for some months now”. Business Post becomes the only British owned express delivery company to appear in this index, although a number of logistics companies feature within it.

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UK Royal Mail in threat to sue post watchdog

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

The Royal Mail, which yesterday announced that it had had a record Christmas, has threatened to sue Postwatch, the consumer watchdog, for advising customers to send letters second class during the festive season.

Angry correspondence has been exchanged since Peter Carr, Postwatch’s chairman, told customers that paying seven pence more for a first-class stamp was a waste of money.

The Royal Mail, which will this year pay Postwatch’s pounds 10million running costs, is understood to have demanded a retraction of “inaccurate information”.

The dispute centres on Royal Mail’s decision to exclude December from its performance figures. Postwatch thinks consumers should know how the Royal Mail is doing all year.

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Deutsche Post meets 2004 profit targets

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post managed to meet its full-year profit targets last year, chairman Klaus Zumwinkel said in comments released Friday.

Deutsche Post had been pencilling in underlying profit growth of 7.5-12.5 percent for last year compared with a figure of 2.975 billion euros (3.9 billion dollars).

That would mean earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) had been expected to amount to 3.2-3.35 billion euros in 2004.

Zumwinkel told journalists at an event in Bonn on Thursday evening that the EBITDA target had been met.

Deutsche Post’s activities in the United States had turned in a loss of around 500 million euros, which was a “slight disappointment,” the chairman said.

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Christmas trade delivers boost for UK Royal Mail chiefs

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

It is a significant boost to plans by Allan Leighton, chairman, and Adam Crozier, its chief executive, who are striving to make Royal Mail more commercially driven to fight off competition from the private sector.

The state-owned postal group said yesterday it had made Pounds 800m in revenues over Christmas, Pounds 80m more than in 2003, with the growth of internet shopping helping to fuel a rise in mail volumes.

Royal Mail delivered 2.2bn items of post in the run-up to Christmas, 100m more than in 2003. About 55m items were sent by internet retailers, it said, led by Amazon.com and eBay.

As well as a growth in sales at Royal Mail, loss-making parts of the business such as the Post Office and Parcelforce also achieved better results over Christmas. Revenues at the Post Office rose by Pounds 17m in December, Royal Mail said, in part thanks to a move into financial products.

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Deliveries face cuts in Japan’s post sale: Reduced service would raise anti-privatisation clamour

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

The Japanese government may consider cutting mail deliveries from daily to every other day in some districts when it privatises the post office in 2007, an adviser to the sell-off said.

Any proposal to dilute the post’s “universal service” could enrage the public and provoke parliamentary opposition to the sale, which will be discussed in what is expected to be a charged Diet debate in March.

Most Japanese – including many within the Liberal Democratic party of Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister – see the network as a vital service.

As well as delivering mail through a dense branch network, the post office is the biggest financial institution in the world, with assets of Y350,000bn (Dollars 3,418bn) in its savings and insurance arms. It employs one in three civil servants.

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TPG to become TNT: one global brand for all activities

Posted by | Jan 14, 2005 | |

TPG will operate globally under the brand TNT for all its activities from 2006. If approved during the General Meeting of Shareholders, the statutory name of the group (and the name of the share listed on the stock exchange) will be changed on 8 April 2005 to TNT N.V. The name change highlights the increasing internationalisation of the company. PTT Post adopted the name TPG after it acquired TNT in 1998 and changed its name to TPG Post in 2002. Outside The Netherlands, TPG presently offers postal services in eight European countries, partly under the name TNT. The name change will be accompanied by a change in the company colour to orange for the entire group. The phased introduction of the TNT brand for the Mail division and of its corporate identity will take form starting from 2006.

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Pall-Ex starts up logistics services

Posted by | Jan 13, 2005 | |

To support a new joint contract with Sims World-Wide, Pall-Ex has launched a Logistics arm. The company is also negotiating other logistics contracts.

Pall-Ex has launched Pall-Ex Logistics after securing a joint contract with member Sims World-Wide Logistics to provide logistics services to welding consumables company SAF Oerlikon UK. Pall-Ex says it is currently negotiating several other logistics contracts. To support the operation Pall-Ex has acquired a 2,800 sq m warehouse facility at Bardon Industrial Park in Leicestershire, close to its central hub. The warehouse will be a dedicated pallet storage facility, with 4,515 pallet spaces, and has the option to expand in the future. SAF’s decision to award Pall-Ex and Sims World-Wide the contract follows its decision to outsource its logistics and transport operation to concentrate on its core business.

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