Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Expanded services for City Link and Target Express

Posted by | May 6, 2007 | |

Courier company City Link is standardising its brand, product, operations and sales function across the combined City Link and newly acquired Target Express business. A number of new initiatives have been announced including offerings for the bulk post market, wider international services and track and trace for Target Express customers.

From 1 May, the City Link brand will appear on the full fleet of 4,350 commercial vehicles across the UK, and an enhanced product range will launch, available to all existing and new customers.

For the first time, City Link will target the bulk post market, there will also be a wider range of international services. Meanwhile, former Target Express customers will be offered a greater level of security, track and trace functionality for the first time, and additional products such as nominated time delivery including before 7.30am.

The new product set caters for every eventuality for B2B and B2C markets. Sales of the new product range will be the responsibility of a single, unified sales team. The new team will be structured by region to provide local focus with the back up of nationwide support systems.

Later this year, there will be additional investment in new and existing mechanical handling equipment, depot technology and cage tracking. The fleet will also be enhanced with the purchase of 140 hard-sided trailers and 7,000 new wheeled cages.

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SingPost Enters into Joint Venture for Print-on-Demand Business

Posted by | May 4, 2007 | |

Singapore Post Limited (SingPost) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Singapore Post Enterprise Private Limited, has entered into a joint venture agreement with Global Print on Demand Network International Ltd (GPN International) and Oce Singapore Private Limited (Oce) to engage in the business of Print-on-Demand.

A joint venture company, GPN Asia Pte Ltd, will be incorporated in Singapore, which will print in Singapore and distribute to the region. SingPost will have 20% equity in the joint venture with an initial investment of €200,000 for the subscription of ordinary shares in the capital of GPN Asia Pte Ltd.

Oce and Euradius will hold 20% and 60% stake in GPN Asia Pte Ltd respectively, also through capital injection. GPN International, a subsidiary of the Dutch incorporated company, Euradius International B.V., is largely in the printing business, with specific expertise in the field of Print-on-Demand technology.

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Austrian Post acquires a 74.9% shareholding in Scherübl Transport GmbH

Posted by | May 4, 2007 | |

Scherübl is an Austrian SME with annual revenues of about EUR 3.5m. The firm has earned an excellent reputation in the industry as a specialist for the temperature-controlled delivery of pharmaceutical products, featuring advanced technical know-how and the highest standards. Almost all prominent pharmaceutical companies are customers of Scherübl. One important service it offers is the cooled transport of pharmaceuticals, i.e. ensuring a continuous cold chain ranging between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius, with uninterrupted temperature monitoring and recording throughout the entire delivery process.

Through its acquisition of a majority shareholding of Scherübl, and the takeover of Thermomed by the trans-o-flex Group, Austrian Post is now represented in the specialised pharmaceutical logistics market in Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries, a niche market with high growth potential.

Austrian Post will strengthen the good market position of Scherübl by newly establishing a network consisting of four pharmaceutical distribution centres in Austria featuring the required infrastructure (e.g. temperature-controlled storage, special cooled containers and temperature documentation). The distribution centres will be set up in Regau (Upper Austria), Hall (Tyrol), Kalsdorf (Styria) and in Vienna by the end of this year.

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DHL launches Intracity Express service in Moscow

Posted by | May 3, 2007 | |

DHL has launched a new express delivery service called Intracity Express.

This service is for documents and parcels within the Moscow region which covers door-to-door delivery of parcels and documents within Moscow city and around 90 other locations.

Intracity Express is targeted at companies and individuals and can be used in combination with other services.
DHL plans to expand Intracity Express to other big cities across the country, as the demand for express delivery increases in Russia.

“Moscow is one of the largest and most dynamic cities in the world. Therefore we have to keep pace with the customers’needs for high-quality express-delivery services for documents and parcels,” said Mark Jordan, commercial director of DHL Russia.

Customers using the service could reduce their costs by a third through the selection of optimal delivery dates, he added.

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Deutsche Telekom chairman under pressure to leave

Posted by | May 3, 2007 | |

Klaus Zumwinkel, chairman of Deutsche Telekom is under pressure from other board members to leave his non-executive post when his contract ends in May 2008, a German newspaper said on Thrusday.

Several supervisory board members had questioned whether Zumwinkel, who is also chief executive of mail and logistics group Deutsche Post and non-executive chairman of Deutsche Postbank could devote enough time to Deutsche Telekom, the Financial Times Deutschland said.

Deutsche Telecom faces strikes over plans to move some 50,000 staff into lower-paying service units as it tries to cut costs in the face of hefty fixed-line subscriber losses.

Citing people familiar with the situation, the paper said Zumwinkel wanted to delay any decision on his future at Deutsche Telekom until later in the year.
The paper said that private equity firm Blackstone, which holds a 4.4 percent stake in Deutsche Telekom, had in December pushed for the resignation of Zumwinkel, citing a possible conflict of interest and arguing that Zumwinkel was unable to devote sufficient attention to Deutsche Telekom.

But the German government, which still owns 31 percent of Deutsche Telekom, had rejected the complaint, the paper said.

No one at Deutsche Telekom, which holds its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, was not immediately available for comment. Deutsche Post declined to comment.

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