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DHL becomes official express and logistics partner for IMG's Fashion Weeks worldwide

Posted by | Jan 11, 2008 | |

DHL will become the official express and logistics partner for IMG’s Fashion Weeks around the world, a series of prestigious shows produced and/or represented by IMG Fashion in ten countries spanning four continents each year. Following a year working with IMG Fashion in the U.S. market, DHL is now increasing its relationship as the official international express and logistics partner of these events.

First in its lineup of events will be the Milano Moda Uomo, held from 12 – 15 January, 2008, in Italy and then at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin that will take place from Jan. 27 – 31 January. Other shows will continue throughout the year. DHL will use these events to strengthen its business penetration with the fashion, apparel and retail industries.

Maintaining a partnership with many well known fashion labels and top brands of the apparel industry, the logistics experts at DHL have been working for years to develop tailor-made transport solutions that address the latest trends in the fashion world and meet the specific needs of individual customers. DHL’s presence in more than 220 countries and territories ensures that the creations of international designers arrive at major fashion shows right on time.

At the beginning of 2007, DHL and IMG Fashion reached an agreement that made the company the official express and logistics partner for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weeks in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. This partnership is now being expanded around the world.

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UPS Freight announces 2008 rate adjustment

Posted by | Jan 11, 2008 | |

UPS Freight announced a general rate increase averaging 5.4 percent covering non-contractual shipments in the United States and Canada.

The increase goes into effect on Feb. 4, 2008, and applies to minimum charge, LTL and truckload (TL) rates.

“We are continuing to improve service to our customers and to provide the latest technology,” said UPS Freight President Jack Holmes. “On Jan. 1, UPS began offering on-time guarantees at no additional charge to customers on the current base UPS Freight tariff for shipments moving within the continental United States.”

Also beginning this month, customers can process both package and LTL shipments in the UPS WorldShip® system, an enhancement that’s already exciting customers, Holmes added. In addition to being able to create a Bill of Lading (BOL) for LTL shipments, UPS WorldShip users can send e-mail notifications, save BOL’s for later completion, import commodities and view their negotiated rates.

UPS Freight, the over-the-road heavy freight division of UPS, offers a full range of regional, interregional and long-haul LTL and TL capabilities in all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam along with comprehensive cross-border service in Canada and Mexico.

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CEVA announces retirement of former CEO David Kulik

Posted by | Jan 11, 2008 | |

The Board of Directors of CEVA Group plc. announced today that David G. Kulik, CEVA’s Vice Chairman and former CEO, has advised the Company of his retirement, effective February 22nd, 2008. The Company also announced that they have entered into an agreement with Mr. Kulik wherein he will be a consultant to management as well as continue in his position as Chairman of the Board of ANJI-TNT, the joint venture between CEVA Logistics and Shanghai Automotive Industries Corporation – SAIC.

Gareth Turner, partner of Apollo Management, said “Dave has
been a leader in the global logistics industry having been the CEO of CTI
LogistX for a number of years and then with TNT as head of their Logistics
division. He led the recovery and sale of TNT Logistics and was integral in
the transformation of the company to CEVA as a portfolio company of Apollo
Management. We are also pleased that he will continue to be associated with
CEVA into the future and we thank him for his past service to the Company.”

Kulik stated, “I am extremely proud of this organization and
the success of 50,000 dedicated people in the transition to CEVA. I have been
fortunate to lead the Company during an exciting period and I am confident
that Apollo has positioned CEVA to achieve even greater levels of growth
under the leadership of our industry’s best management”.

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PayPal Express Checkout comes to the UK

Posted by | Jan 11, 2008 | |

E-tailers can now easily accept PayPal and other payments via a single connection—with added fraud protection from CyberSource

CyberSource Corporation has extended support for PayPal Express Checkout to UK merchants, and has released enhanced fraud protection for merchants accepting PayPal Express Checkout transactions worldwide.

“We’ve now made it simple for our merchants in both the U.S. and U.K. to easily integrate and manage PayPal payments alongside their other payment options, and bring even greater speed and convenience to their customers’ shopping experience,” said Michael Orlando, vice-president, strategic markets for CyberSource.

By implementing PayPal Express Checkout through CyberSource, businesses can accept and reconcile multiple payment types through one payment gateway and reporting interface rather than managing separate processing connections and reports. Merchants processing PayPal through CyberSource can also access additional fraud protection for PayPal transactions, since PayPal is now supported within the CyberSource fraud portal. This portal gives business managers the ability to create order screening rules based on over 100 additional validation tests, including address verification, IP geolocation tests, and purchase-velocity monitoring.

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Italy’s “safe” postal bank ready to float

Posted by | Jan 11, 2008 | |

Now might not be a great time to launch a financial services stock, but Italy’s national postal service — led by its booming banking unit — is gearing up for a float.

When that happens depends on the government, but the company — emboldened by a foray into financial services that turned it around from a loss-making bureaucracy — is already rivalling more obviously sophisticated institutions for capital.

“At the moment, we are working as if at any moment we would be asked to become public,” Chief Executive Massimo Sarmi told Reuters in an interview.

Having rewritten its history as a lethargic administration that could barely be trusted to deliver a letter in time, the post office was valued this year by investment banks at as much as 15 billion euros, said Sarmi. He declined to say which banks had provided the estimate.

That would make it Italy’s third-largest retail bank by market value at current share prices and is 50 percent higher than the estimated value Sarmi cited for the postal group more than a year ago.

And while billions have been wiped off banks’ market value globally by their loans to ‘subprime’ borrowers, analysts say the post office — which in a float would offer shares to both domestic and foreign investors — is a banking story that has succeeded by betting on the simple and safe.

Key to Poste Italiane’s business model has been a strategy of using its 14,000 outlets across Italy to offer bank accounts and loans, exploiting its reputation as a conservative player that has catered to pensioners and families for decades

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FedEx expands portfolio of services with launch of FedEx International Economy in Asia Pacific

Posted by | Jan 10, 2008 | |

FedEx Express today announced the expansion of its customer portfolio of services with the launch of FedEx International Economy service in ten Asia Pacific markets.

FedEx International Economy is an economical, day-definite, customs-cleared, door-to-door service that features a transit time typically one to two days longer than premium FedEx International Priority service, which is designed for more time-sensitive shipments. The new service effectively addresses the needs of customers in Asia shipping intra-Asia and to the U.S. and Europe, who look for reliability and cost efficiency as a top priority in shipping.

FedEx International Economy is specially designed for customers with less urgent shipments of individual packages under 68kg, but who require the reliability they have come to expect with FedEx. No weight restrictions apply for multi-piece shipments. Offered on competitive list rates and backed by a money-back guarantee, FedEx International Economy typically delivers intra-Asia packages in two business days, and shipments to the U.S. and major markets in Europe typically in three to four business days. As with the FedEx International Priority service, customers can use www.fedex.com for online tracking with proactive e-mail notification in 16 languages.

FedEx International Economy service is now available in 10 APAC markets: Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. It will be available in March in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

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Moneygram® and Post Office® deliver greater peace of mind to international money transfers

Posted by | Jan 10, 2008 | |

Post Office® and MoneyGram® have welcomed the introduction of the UK Remittances Task Force Customer Charter, supported by the Department for International Development.

MoneyGram is one of the founder signatories to the new charter which aims to ensure greater transparency and security of service for the millions of people across the UK who send money transfers worth an estimated GBP 2.3 bn abroad each year.

MoneyGram’s international money transfer service is available at all 14,000 Post Office® branches nationwide making it the largest provider in the UK to sign up to the charter – its participation in the scheme ensures that over half of the UK’s transfer outlets will immediately comply with its standards.

The MoneyGram service at the Post Office® is fully in line with the charter’s standards which aim to ensure customers understand the fees and exchange rates that will apply to their transactions before completion, as well defining the information required to ensure secure delivery to the recipient e.g. location of collection points and timescales for delivery.

The Post Office® and MoneyGram have a long term commitment to leading the way in providing international money transfer services which customers can trust to offer high levels of speed and security. The recent introduction of a new computerised system allows cash to securely travel in just ten minutes* from any Post Office® to 138,000 MoneyGram locations across the world.

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Royal Mail appoints Lamb to lead data development team (UK)

Posted by | Jan 10, 2008 | |

DMA (UK) Data Council chair Tony Lamb has taken up a position in Royal Mail’s data strategy team as Head of Data Development.

Lamb will be responsible for the development of Royal Mail’s data strategy, building the postal operator’s range of value added solutions to help businesses more effectively reach existing and new customers through the post.

Lamb has more than 18 years’ experience in the data industry, including running his own consultancy and managing Conduit Business Information.

He also headed up the UK technical development team at Wegener DM, which he joined after a stint at The REaD Group as business data chief.

Lamb started his career at Centaur Media, heading up the Centaur Direct Marketing division.

Over the course of 2007, as Chair of the Data Council, Lamb was instrumental in driving environmental initiatives and raising the profile of best practice in data-led direct marketing.

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