Tag: Courier/Express/Parcels

Parceline invests in new premises

Posted by | Nov 24, 2005 | |

Express parcel carrier Parceline has invested pounds 550,000 by taking on premises formerly owned by brewer Scottish and Newcastle. Previously based on Gateshead’s Team Valley, Parceline has re-located to Monkton Business Park in Hebburn, South Tyneside. Parceline depot manager Colin Edwards said: “We’ve already created five new jobs and there is the potential to expand further over the next 12 months.” The new 4.8-acre site includes a 29,000sq ft warehouse and office space.

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‘DHL has few chances in USA’

Posted by | Nov 24, 2005 | |

DHL has few chances in the USA as it has entered the market too late, German weekly newspaper Zeit said on November 24, 2005, citing US FedEx Corp. CEO Frederick Smith. DHL’s US advertising campaign launched in 2004 has been “extremely unsuccessful”, and it’s US business has been suffering from integration and service quality Smith added.

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TNT Bulgarian unit expects 2006 turnover to rise more than 20%

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

TNT Bulgaria expects its 2006 turnover to rise by more than 20%, exceeding the growth forecast for the current year partly due to expansion of its customer base, a senior TNT Express official said on Wednesday. TNT Bulgaria is to reach a turnover of about 6.0 million euro (USD7.1 million) this year, up 20% from 2004, TNT Express general manager for Eastern Europe, Mike Ogle, told SeeNews in an interview. “Our growth projections [for 2006] are in the excess of 20%,” he said. “We will achieve [the growth] through a combination of two things, we will provide good services to our existing customers, which means they will continue to trade with us, and we will continue to attract new accounts from our competition, and to a certain degree the markets are growing generically anyway,” Ogle added.

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UPS survey finds shipping critical to online buying experience

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Internet shoppers say the successful delivery of goods purchased online is critical to their overall satisfaction and loyalty to online retailers, according to a new survey commissioned by UPS.
The survey, conducted for UPS by the national opinion research firm Synovate, found online consumers were overwhelming in their demand for high-quality delivery services. Among the findings:

Online consumers’ top three delivery priorities, in order, are reliability, convenience and speed of shipping.
80 percent of online shoppers said a positive delivery experience would cause them to likely purchase from that online retailer again.
69 percent of the respondents said they were more likely to patronize those online retailers that offered package tracking, rates and service selection online.

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UPS Bulgarian unit investing 1.5 Mln Euro in office and warehouses

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

In Time, a Bulgarian unit of US courier giant UPS, is investing three million levs (USD1.8 million/1.5 million euro) in its own office building and warehouses to reinforce logistics services, a company official said on Tuesday.
The company is building the facility near the airport in the capital Sofia and hopes to complete it at the beginning of next year, In Time head Zheni Belopitova told reporters. In Time has been operating in rented premises in Sofia since 1990 when it entered the Bulgarian market. The company saw its turnover rising by an average 20% every year in the past 15 years, Belopitova said.

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