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Progressive Business in Liberalized Environment
Progressive business in liberalized environment
New roles for suppliers to help postal services to win
Post Expo 2003 – Brussels – 8-9 October 2003
Erwin Lenhardt,
Vice President,
Sales and Marketing,
Siemens Dematic AG.
DHL is Oracle’s new shipping partner
The world’s largest software supplier Oracle has chosen DHL, the market leader in the international express business, to be its partner for parcel and document shipping. The arrangement between the two leading companies initially covers the dispatch of items within the USA. In the long term there are plans for the partnership to be extended to Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Read MoreDHL to open €500m center in Prague
The courier company DHL plans to invest €500m (US$588 million)in a new regional information technology operations center in Prague, the company announced.
Plans call for the Prague center to be fully running in 2005 and to employ up to 1,000 people by 2006, making it a significant foreign investments into the Czech capital.
The center will serve as the key IT facility for DHL in Europe. The company has similar operations centers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
Read MoreDPWN prompts EC investigation of UPS airline
DPWN prompts EC investigation of UPS airline
Read MoreUK Post Office and bank of Ireland announce joint venture
Post Office Ltd and Bank of Ireland Group have announced that they have agreed the key commercial terms for a financial services joint venture. The new company will launch Post Office branded financial services products early in the New Year through the Post Office branch network, via the telephone and website.
The product range will include personal loans, savings accounts, credit cards, personal insurance and mortgages.
Post Office Ltd carried out extensive market research over the past 18 months among 20,000 customers. The research clearly indicated a market for financial services products offering a combination of trust, simplicity, reliability, convenience and security – characteristics all associated with the Post Office Ltd brand.
Read MoreThe views of Belgian Post International – presentation
The views of Belgian Post International – presentation by Peter Somers, MD at European Mail Users Forum 03.
P:LIBRARYPostalBelgian PostSpeech EMUF Peter Somers – views of BPI.ppt
TPG eyeing stake in Belgian Post
TPG, the Dutch mail and logistics firm, said it could be interested in buying a majority stake in the struggling Belgian postal service.
Belgian media reports quoted TPG Chief Executive Peter Bakker as saying his firm was eyeing a stake in the publicly owned loss-making De Post/La Poste.
“Belgium is a very important market in Europe and if something is moving there, we owe it to ourselves,” Bakker was quoted as saying. He added that TPG was not currently in talks on buying a stake. A TPG spokesman confirmed the reports.
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