A surge in new business has encouraged Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express to expand its distribution service and open a new depot in Sheffield, which will better serve new and existing customers in South Yorkshire, and which will create 20 jobs for local people.
Read MorePeter Bakker has a way of confounding expectations. His first media lunch as chief executive of TPG, the Dutch mail and logistics company, was highly unusual. He made his entrance to the beat of U2, the Irish rock band.
“I wanted to make a bit of a statement, saying that ‘I’m not your ordinary CEO, perhaps because of my age’,” says Mr Bakker, who was 40 when he assumed control of one of the largest companies in the Netherlands three years ago.
His passion for fast cars – he used to drive a Porsche until he got fed up with the attention it attracted – led journalists to speculate that he would switch the company’s sponsorship activities from golf to Formula One. In fact, he chose something very different: fighting world hunger.
The company’s five-year partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), launched in December 2002, has led to his being nicknamed “Bono Bakker”, after the campaigning lead singer of U2.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service Inc. expects business to keep growing even as it passes higher fuel costs on to customers, its chief executive told a newspaper.
“So far we have detected no signs that business is declining,” Michael Eskew said in a interview to be published in Thursday’s Financial Times Deutschland.
Sales volume has not dipped, he said, even though UPS is passing on higher fuel costs directly to clients and airmail packages have become 7.5 percent more expensive to send. Rival Fedex told Reuters in an interview earlier this week that escalating fuel costs are no threat to its business as they are being offset by higher productivity and efficiency.
Deutsche Post may yet gain entry on to the Austrian market, as a press source has indicated that Osterreichische Post, the Austrian postal service operator, may be planning to co-operate with the German group’s logistics subsidiary DHL in parcel forwarding. Osterreichische Post head Anton Wais had favoured Deutsche Post as an investor, but had faced political opposition. At present, Osterreichische Post co-operates with DPD Austria in parcel forwarding, and an extensive agreement exists between the two companies, which, it is feared, could present difficulties if the national postal operator were to switch to DHL.
Read MoreThe express and logistic service company DHL Danzas Air & Ocean has a share of 18% in Venezuela, in a market that moves 120,000 units and US$150mil. Among DHL’s competitors in the country are Kuhne & Nagel, Schencker, Panalpina and Taurel. In the first half of 2004 (Jan-Jun), DHL turned over US$20mil in Venezuela and transported 20,000 units, with a growth of 60% in sales in comparison with the same period of 2003. Drug and pharmaceutical sector is DHL’s main client, accounting for 26% of the operations.
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