Tag: Czech Republic

Competition is interested in parcels

Posted by | Oct 2, 2006 | |

DPD (France), post firm, will focus mainly on the delivery of parcels in the Czech Republic. It is a field of post services, where the national post firm Ceska posta (CP) (Czech Republic) has lost its monopoly. DPD transports about 5 mil parcels per year in the Czech Republic in 2006. According to the volume, DPD is in the third position after CP and DHL (US). DPD is a part of the multi-national group GeoPost, which is the third largest provider of express and parcel services in Europe. CP has about 39,000 employees and one-third of them are bearers. CP should be transformed from a state company to a joint-stock company shortly its privatization is being considered.

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New post companies are coming, the monopoly of CP weakens

Posted by | Oct 2, 2006 | |

TNT Post (Netherlands), post company, is starting to offer services, which have been ensured by the national post company Ceska posta (Prague, Czech Republic), in the Czech Republic during 4 2006. TNT Post will deliver heavier ordinary parcels and addressed trade notifications in the Czech Republic. TNT Post will focus on lucrative firm customers, which have ensured proceeds of about CEK 8 bil per year to CP so far. DPD, which is owned by the post company Groupe La Poste (France) through GeoPost, is extending its operation in the Czech Republic too. The Czech Republic has cardinal importance for DPD. That is why the firm decided to build a new large-distribution centre in this country. The coming of competitors to the Czech post market is allowed by a new standard, which is decreasing the monopoly of CP gradually. The monopoly should definitively end in 2009, when further firms are able to deliver common letters and parcels up to 50 g.

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DHL opens new european distribution center in Czech Republic for LEGO(R) Group

Posted by | Sep 21, 2006 | |

The LEGO Group, one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world and DHL Exel Supply Chain have opened this week a new European distribution center (DC) in Jirny near Prague. Based on a five-year contract the LEGO Group has outsourced all the logistics activities at the new DC to DHL Exel Supply Chain. As of 2007, every LEGO brick destined for Europe, Asia, Africa and South America will have passed through the Czech Republic.

DHL Exel Supply Chain’s warehouse in Jirny, located 10km outside Prague, occupies a total of 60,000 square metres and is the LEGO Group’s largest DC in Europe. The facility’s operations include standard logistics activities such as inbound and outbound logistics operations and storage, as well as value-added services.

The stock from LEGO Group’s five current distribution facilities in Europe will gradually be transferred to the new Jirny DC, and some 600 jobs will be created as a result.

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Ceska posta can be joint-stock company as of January 2008

Posted by | Sep 10, 2006 | |

Ceska posta could be transformed into a joint-stock company as of January 1, 2008 and the cabinet should then decide whether the state will still be a 100-percent owner of the postal services provider or whether the firm will be privatised, Interior and IT Minister Ivan Langer said Sunday.
Langer now wants to launch the project of Ceska posta transformation prepared by the IT Ministry, he told Czech Television.
Ceska posta is run by the IT Ministry, which the new government wants to phase out. Ministers should decide on a new integration of postal services but also telecommunications next week. Langer said the Transport Ministry or the Industry and Trade Ministry could be in charge of those areas.
Ceska posta employs more than 38,000 people in 3,400 branches at present and has annual sales at roughly CZK 18 billion. Profit hovered around CZK 670 million in 2005.

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Ceska posta takes mail high-tech

Posted by | Jul 26, 2006 | |

In an effort to stay on the cutting edge of mobile communication, the national postal service, Ceska posta, has come up with a new service that will transform pictures sent through multimedia message service (MMS) technology into regular printed postcards.
“Travelers or anyone else can send us pictures and text messages via MMS, an e-mail or by placing it on a Web portal (doschranky.cz), and Ceska posta will transform the picture into a regular postcard and deliver it,” said Ivo Mravinac, spokesman for the company.
After a monthlong testing period, in which hundreds of people took advantage of the offer, Ceska posta introduced personalized postcards July 24. Clients can use the service by sending messages and pictures over e-mail to [email protected] with their phones or computers or by posting them onto a Web portal.

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