Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

UK ANC plans to deliver on back of GBP37m deal

Posted by | Feb 8, 2006 | |

Directors of one of the UK’s largest parcel carriers have increased their stake in the firm after completing a GBP37.3 million funding deal. ANC Group chief executive Mark Gittins and his management team now hold a 73 per cent stake in the Newcastle company after successfully agreeing to buy 50 per cent from institutional investors. Following the deal, the management team plans to increase investment in its vehicle fleet and is targeting further strong growth over the next three years. The team took over in 2001 and has since invested GBP10 million in growing the business, which employs 1,700. Mr Gittins said the deal would allow the company to gain an advantage amid consolidation in a market worth GBP2.5 billion a year. He said: “The express parcels sector is very competitive and ANC Group has not only held its unit cost base, but investment has given us the capacity to handle a further 35 million parcels a year.

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Private delivery firms concerned over China postal law

Posted by | Feb 8, 2006 | |

Shanghai’s private express delivery firms will lobby the government for ‘fairness’ amid fears the latest draft for a new Chinese postal law will seriously disadvantage their businesses, the Shanghai Daily reported. The latest draft, written by China Post, allows the state-backed firm to monopolize express delivery of all mail and goods lighter than 350 grams. Previous drafts allowed private firms to handle deliveries under 350 grams as long as it was not personal mail, the paper said. The new draft prevents private firms from delivering air tickets, business contracts, customs clearance papers, and greeting cards, among other items. Those items account for at least 70 pct of the current business, Liu Heping, vice general manager of Shanghai East Union Express Co, one of the city’s biggest private delivery firms, told the paper.

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DHL Express sees revenue booster in Asia Pacific

Posted by | Feb 8, 2006 | |

DHL Express expects its express delivery business in Malaysia to record double-digit revenue growth this year, in line with forecasts for the rest of Asia Pacific. Its senior vice-president for South-East Asia Yasmin Aladad Khan said last year DHL’s operations in Asia Pacific performed “extremely well”. “We expect (revenue growth for) 2006 to be the same if not better than last year’s. This is because Asia Pacific is the engine to drive future growth in the global air cargo market, and South-East Asia, in which Malaysia is part of, is going to benefit from it,” she told a news conference after the launch of DHL Express (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd’s new facility at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang last week.

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Renewed thrust for DHL: delivery firm says it has fixed infrastructure and will attack UPS-FedEx duopoly anew

Posted by | Feb 7, 2006 | |

The challenger came on strong last year with a splashy, USD150 million ad blitz that portrayed its bright yellow fleet as a reliable alternative to UPS and FedEx. DHL, long the dominant small-package carrier outside the United States, was determined to break into the domestic duopoly of UPS and FedEx which, together, control 80 percent of deliveries in the world’s largest market. It’s been a bumpy road so far. A series of breakdowns in DHL’s domestic delivery network stranded huge numbers of US packages last fall, lowered on-time deliveries to levels company officials called “totally unacceptable” and cost UD280 million in lost revenue. Now, with its infrastructure problems apparently fixed, DHL plans another major ad campaign during the Winter Olympics aimed at wresting market share from its American rivals. “Our strategy going forward is totally unchanged, and it’s beginning to bear fruit,” said John Pearson, DHL’s executive vice president. “We’re challenging the duopoly here with a flexible, responsive and more human approach – and the reaction from customers has been very favorable.”

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Home Shopping Tracker 2005 – summary L13971

Posted by | Feb 7, 2006 | |

Annual survey – Research objectives:
To provide home shopping market demographics
To track market growth and development
To provide insight into consumer behaviour and attitudes to home shopping and delivery
to explore the dynamics of the multi-channel market and how channels relate to each
P:LibraryB2CRM Home ShoppingTracker 05.ppt

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