Tag: Deutsche Post

Light mail management reorganisation at Deutsche Post

Posted by | Oct 23, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post, the German postal service operator, has reorganised the management of its letter division in response to increasing competition in this area of activity. Marco Demuth, head of sales in German letter business, is to be replaced by four managers, in order to improve customer orientation. The sales department is to be subdivided into a large customer division and divisions for business customers, commercial customers and private customers.

Ingo Bohlken is to replace Reinhard Pranke as head of German marketing, while Mr Pranke is to be responsible for the deregulation department. Jurgen Gerdes is also being groomed as the successor to Hans-Dieter Petram, head of letter activities at Deutsche Post, whose contract is due to expire at the end of 2007. A further department is to be created on the management board for the UK subsidiary Williams Lea, and Tim Griffiths, head of the UK subsidiary, is therefore to be appointed to the board. Klaus Knappik is to retain responsibility for international letter operations. Top management will be unaffected by the reorganisation.

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Deutsche Post's Schimmelmann sells shares worth 5.57 million euro

Posted by | Oct 22, 2006 | |

Deutsche Postbank AG chief executive and member of Deutsche Post AG’s management board, Wulf von Schimmelmann, has sold a large portion of the shares he owned in Deutsche Post, fuelling speculation that he may step down prematurely, reported Focus magazine without citing sources.

The magazine said that Schimmelmann sold 268,000 shares in four separate tranches with a combined value of around 5.57 mln euro.

Deutsche Post could not be reached for comment on the report.

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France's La Poste prepares for battle

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

A recent report to the French Senate on the state of La Poste made depressing reading.
In 1996, it said, the German and French post offices had been more or less on a par. Eight years later, the turnover of the German post office was double that of France’s; its profits were eight times bigger, and internal investment was three times as high.
On top of that, the quality of the German service was improving, with a next-day delivery rate of 90per cent, compared to 75per cent in France.
The difference, of course, was that Germany had privatised and reformed its postal service, while France’s venerable public institution, complete with 330,000 staff and 17,000 bureaux, had stayed stock still.

Last week La Poste’s management unveiled a 700m euro (GBP470m) investment plan -designed to equip the company for the future. The 100,000 postmen and women are to have pocket computers and GPS monitors; there will be 12,000 bicycles with pivoting seats as well as 400 electronic bikes; and staff will take on other jobs like reading gas meters.

The message is clear: once again a French state mammoth is being prepared for the Brussels steeplechase.

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Momentum grows for major postal operators backing EU liberalisation plan

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

On the eve of the debate over postal opening, Deutsche Post (Germany), Posten AB (Sweden), Suomen Posti Oyj (Finland), TNT (The Netherlands) and Royal Mail (UK) are joined by Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Jürgen R. Thumann, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), and Paul R. Kleindorfer, Professor at INSEAD and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In this joint event taking place in Brussels today, the group intends to demonstrate that full market opening must take place in 2009 to allow postal operators to benefit from changes that are shaking the global communications market. It must be seen as an opportunity to restructure organisations for increased operational, service efficiency and customer-orientation. Furthermore, a modern and flexible universal service to the benefit of residential and small business users can be maintained in an open market.

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Royal Mail, TNT, Deutsche Post, Posten, Finnish Post back EU postal reforms

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

The chief executives of Deutsche Post AG, Sweden’s Posten AB, Finnish post office Suomen Posti Oyj, TNT NV and the UK’s Royal Mail have said that they believe postal market liberalisation is already working in their countries and that they are ‘ready for full market opening in 2009’.

The chief executives of the five groups, which distribute some 60 pct of postal mail volume in Europe, will attend a dinner in Brussels tonight where EU internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy is expected to speak about the commission’s plan to liberalise postal markets.

Klaus Zumwinkel, chief executive of the Deutsche Post, said ‘Liberalisation that allows healthy competition is the only way forward. We are ready to embrace it’.

The European Commission will announce the next step in its liberalisation of Europe’s postal services tomorrow, with deliveries of letters under 50 grams open to competition by 2009, said EU spokesman Oliver Drewes earlier today.

The commission will debate the proposals before announcing plans to free up the market for letters in Europe, following on from its 2002 directive on parcels and letters over 50 grams.

Currently, historical operators may still hold national monopolies on letters weighing less than 50 grams in Europe.

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