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PalletForce GBP1m pre-tax profit

Posted by | Sep 2, 2004 | |

PalletForce is set to announce a GBP1m pre-tax profit for the year ended August 31, an increase of two-thirds over the GBP600,000 in 2002/3. Year-on-year, volumes rose by 57%. And chief executive Mick Scarlett is predicting sharply improved profitability and more strong growth this year. Profit will rise 150% on a 50% growth in volume, up from 5,000 pallets a night now to 7,500 in a year’s time, he says. Those figures will put the company hot on the heels of rivals Pall-Ex and Palletline according to Scarlett. He says Palletways is out in front as clear market leader by volume. Scarlett says: “It wasn’t our plan to catch up with the big three. We set out to focus on quality, but as a result we have developed a very good name within the sector.”

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Oesterreichische Post says no plans to cooperate with Deutsche Post’s DHL

Posted by | Sep 2, 2004 | |

Oesterreichische Post has no plans to cooperate with Deutsche Post World Net AG’s express courier unit DHL and will continue working with Austria’s DPD delivery service, chief executive Anton Wais told the Financial Times Deutschland. Earlier press reports had stated the Austrian state mail carrier would cooperate with DHL as part of a strategic partnership. Previously, Deutsche Post failed in an attempt to purchase a 25 pct stake in Oesterreichische Post, the press reports had added.

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Large clients criticise An Post service

Posted by | Sep 2, 2004 | |

Some of An Post’s largest customers have strongly criticised the company’s performance in relation to bulk mail. In response to a ComReg-organised consultation process on bulk mail, the State’s largest mobile phone company, Vodafone, outlined a range of shortcomings it finds with An Post’s service.
Vodafone produces 10 million mail items a year and says that, over the past three years, it has become seriously concerned about several issues. One of its strongest criticisms relates to international mail. It claims that foreign mail is delivered into Ireland by An Post at a loss because of international agreements An Post has failed to change. It says postal services sending mail into the State can avail of rates 35 per cent below those available to Irish customers of An Post.
Vodafone says this situation “remains the greatest single threat to the viability of the universal service”. It says the situation is “discriminatory against postal users in Ireland”.

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Geopost Expands the DPD Network to Slovenia

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

GeoPost continues the step-by-step expansion of the international DPD Parcel & Express network. As of today, Slovenia, represented by new franchise partner kurirska in paketna distribucija, has joined the permanent network, thereby extending the DPD network across the Balkans and into the new EU countries.

The keystone of this expansion is a joint venture with Austrian franchise partner Lagermax. Geopost will hold a 70% stake in the enterprise with the other 30% being held by Lagermax. This renewed cooperation, which has previously led to successful joint ventures in Hungary and Croatia, will enable DPD’s main shareholder GeoPost to further expand its international network within Central and Eastern Europe. Thanks to its Austrian-based network, Lagermax has traditionally had close ties with the Balkan states and respectively has the advantage of an existing infrastructure in South-East Europe.

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Nightspeed expansion

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

A surge in new business has encouraged Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express to expand its distribution service and open a new depot in Sheffield, which will better serve new and existing customers in South Yorkshire, and which will create 20 jobs for local people.

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Mailman with a hunger to help: THE LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW PETER BAKKER, TPG

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

Peter Bakker has a way of confounding expectations. His first media lunch as chief executive of TPG, the Dutch mail and logistics company, was highly unusual. He made his entrance to the beat of U2, the Irish rock band.

“I wanted to make a bit of a statement, saying that ‘I’m not your ordinary CEO, perhaps because of my age’,” says Mr Bakker, who was 40 when he assumed control of one of the largest companies in the Netherlands three years ago.

His passion for fast cars – he used to drive a Porsche until he got fed up with the attention it attracted – led journalists to speculate that he would switch the company’s sponsorship activities from golf to Formula One. In fact, he chose something very different: fighting world hunger.

The company’s five-year partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), launched in December 2002, has led to his being nicknamed “Bono Bakker”, after the campaigning lead singer of U2.

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UPS sees growth despite higher fuel costs, prices

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

United Parcel Service Inc. expects business to keep growing even as it passes higher fuel costs on to customers, its chief executive told a newspaper.
“So far we have detected no signs that business is declining,” Michael Eskew said in a interview to be published in Thursday’s Financial Times Deutschland.
Sales volume has not dipped, he said, even though UPS is passing on higher fuel costs directly to clients and airmail packages have become 7.5 percent more expensive to send. Rival Fedex told Reuters in an interview earlier this week that escalating fuel costs are no threat to its business as they are being offset by higher productivity and efficiency.

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Possible Austrian Opportunities for Deutsche Post

Posted by | Sep 1, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post may yet gain entry on to the Austrian market, as a press source has indicated that Osterreichische Post, the Austrian postal service operator, may be planning to co-operate with the German group’s logistics subsidiary DHL in parcel forwarding. Osterreichische Post head Anton Wais had favoured Deutsche Post as an investor, but had faced political opposition. At present, Osterreichische Post co-operates with DPD Austria in parcel forwarding, and an extensive agreement exists between the two companies, which, it is feared, could present difficulties if the national postal operator were to switch to DHL.

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