Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

DHL honored with Asia Platinum Award by Reader's Digest for fourth consecutive year Awarded nine Platinum and Gold Awards across seven markets in region

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

DHL has once again been voted as one of Asia’s most trusted brands in the ‘Airfreight/Courier Service’ category at the 10th annual Trusted Brands Awards 2008, organized by Reader’s Digest. The company has, for the fourth consecutive year, received an Asia Platinum Award, in addition to the three Platinum and five Gold awards garnered across seven countries surveyed.

The prestigious award wins further strengthened the DHL brand equity as consumers clearly associate the company with attributes that are of utmost importance to them – trustworthiness, credibility, quality, value, understanding their needs and innovation.

Besides the Asia Platinum Award, DHL received the Platinum Award in Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as the Gold Award in Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand in the same category. In India, DHL and Blue Dart, part of the DHL group, each garnered a Gold Award. Platinum awards in Hong Kong and Singapore are repeated wins; Hong Kong for the fifth year running and Singapore for the second successive year.

Respondents who took part in the survey, through email and telephone interviews, nominated their most, single trusted brand. DHL’s excellent showing in the survey shows that its brand name registers top-of-mind awareness among consumers. DHL attributes this appeal to its strong brand presence, extensive network infrastructure, and the active community activities that it regularly and consistently participates in these countries and beyond in Asia Pacific.

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TNT announces start of last tranche under its EUR 500 million share buyback programme

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

TNT announced the start of its third and last tranche under the EUR 500 million share buyback programme on 29 April 2008. This last tranche amounts up to EUR 200 million.

TNT announced the EUR 500 million share buyback program on 30 July 2007: on 4 January the first tranche of EUR 200 million and on 15 February the second tranche of EUR 100 million were completed.

TNT’s issued share capital currently consists of 379,224,255 ordinary shares. This number still includes the 11,034,904 shares repurchased as part of the above-mentioned tranches. These shares are cancelled following the decision of TNT’s AGM on 11 April 2008 once all necessary formalities have been fulfilled. TNT intends to cancel the shares to be acquired under this last tranche taking into account applicable regulations as stipulated by law and the articles of association.

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e-male order: Buying clothes on the net is no longer just for girls

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

Internet shopping might always have suited the reluctant male shopper – he could stay seated, beer in one hand, keyboard at the other, and shop from the comfort of his armchair at any time of day or night. However, it is only recently that men have outpaced women in their use of online shopping.

Internet shopping might always have suited the reluctant male shopper – he could stay seated, beer in one hand, keyboard at the other, and shop from the comfort of his armchair at any time of day or night. However, it is only recently that men have outpaced women in their use of online shopping.

A survey by management consultants Accenture suggests that most men (56 per cent) today prefer shopping online to the high street, and now premium fashion sites are responding.

“Shopping for fashion online is a new experience for many men – they have to be educated to convert to it and, unlike women, the media hasn’t been busy bombarding them with ‘the new look’ on a weekly basis,” says Ali Khan, founder of menalamode.com, a site set up as a men’s alternative to net-a-porter.com. “Lots of retailers have been reluctant to cater online to the male fashion customer when women have been so ready to buy online. But it’s changing.”

Certainly, internet fashion retail is booming, with, according to market researchers Nielsen, 36 per cent of consumers with internet access having bought clothes, footwear or accessories online in the last quarter of 2007, almost double the figure two years ago. That suggests fashion is second only to books as the most popular internet purchase.

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TNT N.V. publish 2008 first quarter results

Posted by | Apr 28, 2008 | |

The quarter, revenues and results are negatively impacted by the anticipated phasing impact of week 1 and Easter in Express and Mail. The impact is a decrease of around EUR 70 million in revenue, and around EUR 40 million in operating income compared to Q1 2007.

TNT’s outlook for 2008 is based at constant average 2007 foreign exchange rates versus the Euro. The decrease of revenues resulting from FX rate differences versus the euro in the first quarter was around EUR 65 million, with limited
impact on operating income.

Additionally, a first EUR 7 million impairment charge out of the approximately EUR 70 million Postkantoren restructuring costs previously announced, has been taken.
The underlying development of the business, taking into account above factors, will therefore be the focus of the summary analysis below.
Group
• Results versus Q1 2007 show expected impact of week 1, working days and Easter phasing
• Underlying business growth develops in line with Q4 2007 as expected
Express
Adjusted for impact week 1 and Easter:
• Core volume growth in line with Q4 2007, up 3.3 pct; yield 5.1 pct
• Operational revenue growth 10.4 pct
• Emerging platforms operational revenue growth well above 20 pct
• Operating margin in line with Q1 last year, at 8.2 pct
Mail
Adjusted for impact working days and EUR 7 million restructuring costs:
• Operational revenues 1.4 pct above last year’s level
• Emerging Mail & Parcels operational revenue growth over 15 pct
• EBIT at EUR 209 million (Q1 2007: EUR 231 million); decrease due to EUR 12 million higher net one-offs in Q1 2007 and autonomous volume reduction

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TNT says Dutch labour deal not enough to open market

Posted by | Apr 25, 2008 | |

A deal struck by trade unions and rivals of Dutch mail company to include their workers in a national collective wage agreement is not enough to ensure a level playing field and justify opening the domestic market, TNT said on Friday.

The Dutch government has made its planned liberalisation of the Dutch mail market dependant on negotiations between delivery companies and Dutch postal workers which aim to include all workers in a collective wage deal.

The mail market’s liberalisation had originally been scheduled for January.

TNT, Europe’s second-biggest mail company, whose workers are covered by the collective wage agreement, has seen rivals privately-owned Sandd and Deutsche Post’s

Dutch unit Selekt Mail eat into its market share and profitability in the lucrative domestic market.

Sandd and Selekt Mail signed an agreement in principle with some labour unions regarding labour conditions on Thursday, TNT said.

“This agreement by no means fulfils the conditions for opening the market. It is far too vague and there are no guarantees built into it,” its spokesman Pieter Schaffels said.

TNT’s subsidiary Netwerk VSP, which employs 24,000 part-time workers, will not sign the agreement, he said.

“We want to see first if this is what politicians want,” said Schaffels. He said main trade union ABVAKABO FNV has also not signed the deal as it shares the same concern.

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