Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Four organisations win Europe’s most prestigious award for business excellence

Posted by | Nov 8, 2006 | |

The winners of the EFQM Excellence Award were announced last night during the EFQM Forum Gala Dinner celebration in Budapest, Hungary. Over 700 senior executives and business leaders from 45 countries witnessed the presentation of the Award by Ferenc Gyurcsány, Prime Minister of Hungary, to four organisations: BMW Group Chassis and Driveline Systems Production, TNT Express GmbH, Grundfos A/S and in the public sector, St. Mary’s College Londonderry. The EFQM Excellence Award recognises industry leaders with an undisputable track record of progress and results for both financial and non financial performance. The Award, which is given to Europe’s best performing companies and not-for-profit organisations, is Europe’s most prestigious award for organisational Excellence.

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Deutsche Post World Net with solid third quarter

Posted by | Nov 8, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post World Net saw a double-digit increase in revenue and earnings in the third quarter. Consolidated revenue rose by 35 percent from 11.028 billion euros to 14.887 billion euros in the period. The integration of logistics service provider Exel and financial service provider BHW as well as organic growth drove this increase. The company now generates 59 percent of total revenue outside Germany. Profit from operating activities (EBIT) rose by 40.1 percent to 1.03 billion euros, including the expected income of 276 million euros from calling the exchangeable bond on Postbank stock in July prior to maturity. In the third quarter of 2005, EBIT was 735 million euros. Consolidated net profit was 537 million euros in the third quarter of 2006 after 412 million euros in the year-earlier quarter. That corresponds to an increase of 30.3 percent. Earnings per share increased to 45 euro cents in the third quarter of 2006 from 37 euro cents in the year-earlier period. In the first nine months of the year, the Group posted 36 percent higher revenues of 44.190 billion euros, including around 10.2 billion euros from acquisitions. EBIT rose by 7.5 percent to 2.588 billion euros.

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Parcelforce adds 50p to C-charge deliveries

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

The Royal Mail’s courier business is introducing a 50p levy for deliveries inside the congestion charging zone.

Parcelforce said it was following competitors in the parcel delivery business by adding a surcharge for deliveries in central London.

A Parcelforce spokesman said it was difficult to estimate how much of the charge would be recovered. But he said the 50p surcharge paid by the sender covered consignments rather than individual items. “This is a very competitive market and we have to cover costs,” he said.

However, one of its biggest rivals, TNT, denied it had imposed a levy – and Transport for London said it had no record of any business asking customers to foot the bill. TNT said the c-charge was costing its operations Pounds 1,100 a vehicle a year but added it was absorbing the extra cost.

Some companies are believed to have passed on the extra costs in higher tariffs but Parcelforce has gone further by itemising the impact of the charge on its operations. Two years ago Royal Mail estimated the charge was costing its letters and parcel businesses Pounds 2 million a year.

Now business customers fear other delivery and transport groups will follow Parcelforce, which delivers around one million parcels a week nationwide.

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The Wine Society benefits from a cross-depot solution to its distribution needs from PalletFORCE

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

PalletFORCE Member, Beattie Brothers has enhanced the service it offers to its customer, The Wine Society, by setting up a warehousing deal with fellow PalletFORCE Member, Transvan.

The world’s oldest co-operative wine club, the Wine Society delivers to members nationwide from its base in Stevenage. The company has its own fleet of vans based around the country, which are used to deliver locally from nine strategically located warehouses.

The company has been using Beattie Brothers to deliver pallets to these warehouses for several years and was sufficiently confident of their relationship that, when Beattie Brothers moved from Palletways to PalletFORCE, The Wine Society was happy to follow suit.

Recently, The Wine Society needed to find a new warehouse for the Manchester region, and Beattie Brothers suggested using fellow Member Depot Transvan, based in Aston-in-Makerfield, near Liverpool.

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DHL Express (India) to expand capacity by 50% in 2 years

Posted by | Nov 7, 2006 | |

The Ministry of communications’ proposal to bring down FDI in courier services to 49% from 100% does not seem to be having much impact on foreign companies in the sector. DHL Express, the leading courier and logistics company in India, plans to expand its capacity by more than 50% in the next 2-3 years.
In the last 3-4 years, the company has invested around USD 250 million in India. Craig Grossgart, country manager, DHL Express India, told ET, “We don’t think there’s much need to panic. The proposal has been discussed in various quarters and we are confident that the interest of the industry will be taken care of. As of now, we are all set to go ahead with our expansion plans.”
In the next 3 months, the company is looking at adding a fresh 19 outlets to its existing retail network of 55 outlets, spread in 12 cities. The new outlets will be set up in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.

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