Tag: Czech Republic

Changes in DHL Express (Czech Republic)

Posted by | Feb 14, 2007 | |

A new division – Express Business Unit – was established within DHL Express (Czech Republic), market leader in express and logistics services, due to restructuring changes, as of 1st of January, 2007. Mr Ludek Drnec was appointed as the new director of the division; he has previously worked as a Marketing Director of DHL Express (Czech Republic).

The new division Express Business Unit took over most of the activities of the former department of Marketing & Sales (with the exception of the departments of Customer Service, Key Account and of Marketing Communication). Express Business Unit is in charge of steady growth and meeting the turnover and profit targets related to the express products of DHL Express, with the exception of parcel products provided by the company PPL. Product management with direct responsibility for turnover and profit for the particular type of express products in air freight, overland and special transport has recently been included.

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Express mail and delivery firms diversifying in the Czech Republic

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

With the European and Czech market of postal services slated to be fully liberalized by 2009, the Czech state-owned post office Ceska posta (CP) continues broad remedies to withstand the impact of competition, which is driven by the market to boost services, increase quality and reduce prices.

“Within two years, Ceska posta will be a different company,” said Ivo Mravinac, the director of communications with CP. The ongoing changes are concentrated on two major levels — the internal restructuring of the company and the conversion into joint-stock company.

For the past couple of years, the Czech government harbored plans to privatize the company and finally last fall the board of trustees of CP charged company CEO Karel Kratina to work out the details of the transformation into a state owned joint-stock company. “There’s no time-schedule for the whole process or for its individual steps,” Mravinac said, adding that the final deadline is Jan. 1, 2009, when the Czech postal services market is to be fully liberalized, but that the company hopes to reach its target sooner.

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The European Mail Manifesto: growth, partnership and innovation in a changing industry

Posted by | Jan 12, 2007 | |

The Postal Users Group has issued a manifesto on the main interests of business users of postal services to encourage the European Commission to take the postal users needs into account when it is preparing its next proposals on postal services this year. PUG, an alliance of the major postal users representing 15 trade associations and businesses, points out in its manifesto that the postal services cover a very wide range of businesses and systems. The letter mail business of Europe´s postal operators represent about 1 million jobs and revenues of 47 billion euro; however, PUG shows that the wider sector accounts for an additional 4 million jobs and over 150 billion euro of revenues.

Contents (i)
List of figures (ii)
List of case studies (ii)
List of annexes (ii)
Signatories (iii)
Foreword (iv)
Author’s Foreword (v)
Executive summary (vi)
1. Introduction 1
2. The postal segment of the mail industry
3. The broader mailing industry 17
4. A shared vision for the future 25
5. Conclusion 33
Annex 36
Bibliography 38
P:LibraryPostalEuropean Mail Manifesto PUG 0706.pdf

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Ceska Posta raises profit to Czk 1 billion

Posted by | Oct 16, 2006 | |

Ceska posta, the Czech Post Office, raised gross profit by 4 percent year-on-year to CZK 1 billion in the first nine months of the year.

Sales from postal operations added almost 2 percent to CZK 7 billion, while sales from agency services to clients rose by 5 percent to CZK 1.5 billion.

Ceska posta also expects a 4 percent rise in profits for the full year. In 2005, it made net profits worth CZK 667 million, a year-on-year increase by half. Gross profits reached CZK 920 million.

Ceska posta, owned by the state, has 37,500 employees in 3,400 branches. The company will be transformed into a joint-stock company in the next few years before it can be privatised.

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TNT Post to launch major European advertising campaign

Posted by | Oct 6, 2006 | |

TNT Post is launching a major advertising campaign across Europe to increase awareness of its new brand following the re-naming from TPG Post last year. An “orange eye” logo will form the focus of the campaign.

The orange campaign has already been rolled out in the Netherlands, the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and will get underway in Germany by the end of the year, followed by Belgium and Austria. These are the eight countries where TNT Post is active.

The new concept, which will have the orange eye in the centre of all new communications material, signifies that TNT Post sees the world through orange eyes, with the slogan “It’s our business to deliver yours.”

“In a second step, the Orange Eye concept will be used on all internal and external communications material,” explained Sascha Bilen, head of marketing at TNT Post in Germany.

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