Tag: Deutsche Post

Changes in management at Deutsche Post World Net

Posted by | May 8, 2007 | |

Dr. Hans-Dieter Petram (64), the member of the Board of Management at Deutsche Post World Net responsible for the Mail division, will resign from his position as intended on June 30, 2007, and enter retirement. Jürgen Gerdes (42), the chairman of Mail Germany Divisional Board, has been appointed a new member of the Board of Management by the Supervisory Board. Beginning on July 1, 2007, he will assume responsibility for the Mail and parcel business in Germany. In the newly structured area of responsibility, Gerdes will focus solely on the challenges of Deutsche Post’s home market, concentrating in particular on liberalization of the Mail market and the increasing substitution of letters with electronic communications. As part of this new structure, Dr. Frank Appel (45), the Board of Management member for Global Business Services with extensive cross-departmental functions, will also assume responsibilities for the areas of Mail International and Mail value-added services. In addition, he will oversee the corporate department regulation management (director: Walter Maschke) that had been part of the responsibilities assigned to the Board of Management chairman.

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Frank Appel to replace Klaus Zumwinkel at Deutsche Post in 2008

Posted by | May 8, 2007 | |

Klaus Zumwinkel, CEO of German postal services group Deutsche Post AG, is likely to be replaced by Frank Appel, after Zumwinkel’s contract expires at the end of 2008, German daily Handelsblatt reported on May 8, 2007.

Frank Appel, who is currently responsible for the Global Corporate Services division, will also take over mail services outside Germany, Zumwinkel said at the company’s general shareholders’ meeting. Appel has worked closely together with Deutsche Post’s top management for almost seven years, and is expected to boost further the change in the regulatory and political fields, Zumwinkel added.

A spokesperson of Deutsche Post did not comment on speculations that Appel’s responsibilities would be extended further.

Appel, who used to be in charge of the important logistics division, will engage in political talks about the future of Deutsche Post’s mail services monopoly, which, according to current plans of the German government, has to be revoked at the end of 2007. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) has raised objections against the planned reform.

Juergen Gerdes, 42, will be in charge of mail services in Germany, Zumwinkel said. The mail communication services division has so far been managed by Hans-Dieter Petram, 64, who will retire as of June 30, 2007.

It remains unclear when Deutsche Post will lose its monopoly over letters weighing up to 50 grams in Germany. Vice Chancellor Franz Muentefering and the Minister of Finance, Peer Steinbrueck, have set as target date January 1, 2008. While debates in the German parliament are still going on, Zumwinkel has again raised demands for liberalisation of EU accords. According to the EU plans, the remaining monopolies in EU member states must be revoked in 2009.

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Deutsche Post rules out takeovers

Posted by | May 2, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post has announced that it intends to focus on organic growth and has ruled out investing in other postal service companies outside Germany. This counters reports that the company was interested in acquiring Israeli postal service company Israel Postal Company. It is also said that representatives for Japanese and Chinese postal services could be in discussion with Deutsche Post.

However, the integration of newly acquired business in the express business has been slower than expected. The impending liberalisation of the European postal market threatens to entail a drop in figures for Deutsche Post.

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Quality of service: Awards for Belarus, Germany and Hungary

Posted by | May 1, 2007 | |

The postal operators of Belarus, Germany and Hungary were today awarded for their quality of service management results.

The UPU certification programme, which was adopted in 2003, rewards postal operators that apply quality management procedures in their postal structures, guarantee a particularly high standard in their international mail service, and actively participate in quality improvement programmes.

The programme, which evaluates quality on the basis of values other than speed and regularity, provides a level playing field for all Posts to apply for certification on an equal footing, irrespective of their infrastructures and level of development.

These three countries now join the six that have already won awards (Ukraine, Jordan, Tunisia, Denmark, Eritrea and Switzerland).

According to Mr. Laszló SZIVI, Vice-President of Magyar Posta, this award represents not only “International recognition of the efforts made by its postal enterprise to achieve the standards set by the UPU, but is also an accolade from the postal community to the Hungarian operator for meeting the growing needs of customers and investing in its structures and staff, in order to provide a quality service”. The programme “Presents customers with a very positive brand image of the Post”, asserts Laszló SZIVI, adding, “I urge all postal operators to apply for certification”.

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Sale of KfW's Deutsche Post Stake 'Very Unlikely'

Posted by | Apr 27, 2007 | |

The state-owned Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW) bank would be unlikely to sell the appx 30.1 pct stake it holds in Deutsche Post AG to The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI), financial sources close to the matter said.

‘The freeze period on the (sale of) KFW’s stake is due to end soon and this would set up the possibility of a sale of the stake, but the chances KFW would get the go-ahead from the government to do this would be extremely unlikely,’ the source said.

KfW said late last year that it was looking at the possibility of selling some of the shares it holds in Deutsche Post and Deutsche Telekom AG in 2007.
Shares in Deutsche Post had climbed by around 4.8 pct higher by midday, on speculation that TCI was willing to bid 30.25 eur per share to acquire between a 25-30 pct stake in the postal carrier.

A spokesman for Deutsche Post said the speculation is ‘the usual Post rumour’ and added there is nothing new to report from the company on the matter.
‘Business as usual,’ he said.

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