Tag: Deutsche Post

Deutsche Post Direkt publishes its Address catalogue

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post Direkt publishes around five million German business addresses.
The core element of the catalogue is an index of business addresses that come with precise information on market segments and is sorted by various criteria including business size, workforce, type of premises, turnover, and advertising activities. The catalogue is clearly structured and a convenient aid for any business that needs to select and order address lists.

For targeted communication with various management levels users can also order decision-makers’ names and functions as well as their contact details. Deutsche Post Direkt offers a total of five million individual nationwide business addresses, spread over more than 7,000 sectors and accompanied by almost 100 million selection criteria. Direct marketers lease the business addresses for one year and can use them as often as they wish. This enables them to communicate with prospective customers at various levels either once or several times, all at low cost.

The catalogue also offers detailed information on consumer and lifestyle addresses, list broking, and list management. Additional services such as adjustment, list analysis and list enrichment round off the service.

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French wary over German postal push

Posted by | Jan 11, 2007 | |

European commissioner for the internal market, Charlie McCreevy confirmed that the final remaining monopoly of the deliveries market maintained by national postal companies, for letters weighing less than 50 grammes, should end by 2009.

French President Jacques Chirac said in a speech to rural constituents last weekend that France would “oppose any initiative which would lead to undermining the quality of the public postal service”.

With around 330,000 staff, La Poste is the second biggest employer in France after the French state itself. But unlike other large national monopolies it has not restructured itself to deal with new competitive challenges.

On the services directive, France could rely on strong support from Germany to mitigate the effects of liberalisation. But Berlin has made getting progress on postal liberalisation one of its priorities for the internal market during its presidency. Germany has reformed its own postal service and will end Deutsche Post’s monopoly for items under 50 grammes at the end of 2007. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a recent interview that unless other EU countries were to follow suit it would put Germany at an “unacceptable competitive disadvantage”.

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Deutsche Post sells waste disposal unit Vfw to Monitor Clipper Partners

Posted by | Jan 3, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post AG said it is selling its waste disposal unit Vfw AG to US-based private equity investor Monitor Clipper Partners for an undisclosed sum.

It said the deal, which is subject to antitrust clearance, is expected to be closed in the first quarter of 2007.

It added that Vfw is currently setting up its own recycling system as an alternative to the ‘Green Dot’ of former monopolist Duales System Deutschland GmbH.

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Deutsche Post's Appel sees service division saving 400-500 mln eur by 2009

Posted by | Dec 18, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG’s new service division will bring about savings of around 100 mln eur this year and 400-500 mln eur per year by 2009, management board member Frank Appel told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

‘By 2009 this division will cut the company’s costs by 400-500 mln eur annually,’ Appel said.

Meanwhile, ver.di secretary Wolfgang Abel told daily Hamburger Abendblatt that the trade union expects Deutsche Post’s planned consolidation of its parcel and mail operations will result in 800-1,000 job cuts.

He added that the cuts will mostly effect administrative and executive positions.

Deutsche Post did not confirm the trade union’s figures, however a spokesman said that there will be job cuts, the newspaper reported.

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Deutsche Post CEO Zumwinkel threatens to launch price war in 2008

Posted by | Dec 13, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel told journalists his company is prepared to make drastic price cuts in the German mail market should it lose significant market share to rivals when its virtual monopoly on letter delivery expires in 2008, the Financial Times Deutschland reported.

‘If I lose too much market share, then I have some price cuts in reserve that will certainly throw our competitors into disarray,’ Zumwinkel said in New York.

The chief executive did not provide further details on the possible price cuts.

The newspaper said that Deutsche Post currently controls about 90 pct of the German letter delivery market. This business last year accounted for 30 pct of Deutsche Post’s total revenue and almost half of its profits.

However, rivals such as TNT, Pin and a range of local delivery services are eager to expand their presence in the German market.

The newspaper said that TNT and Pin want to gain a 10 pct share of the German letter delivery market within the next five years.

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