Tag: Deutsche Post

Red Parcel Post to be launched in 2007

Posted by | Sep 9, 2005 | |

Red Parcel Post, the new German parcel forwarder, is due to be launched on the market at the beginning of 2007. The Boes family, which sold its previous company to Denmark’s DFDS group in last year, is a shareholder in the new company. Manfred Boes, who is also president of the German logistics sector association DSLV, warns that, thanks to new sorting and mailing technology, Red Parcel Post will be in a position to offer more favourable prices than rival DHL, a subsidiary of the postal service provider Deutsche Post.

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German Deutsche Post, SAP and Swiss PayNet to set EBPP network

Posted by | Sep 9, 2005 | |

German postal services company Deutsche Post AG, German enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider SAP AG and Swiss electronic billing services company PayNet (Schweiz) AG plan to jointly develop an international electronic payment network based on SAP’s Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) technology, it was reported on September 7, 2005. Deutsche Post, SAP and PayNet goal is to create an exchange of electronic invoices across borders on the basis of a common technology. The cooperation will provide the companies’ customers from different countries with the possibility to make transactions of national and international invoices via a single interface. PayNet will link the companies within Switzerland and Deutsche Post will integrate companies from Germany and from other countries into the network.

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German Hermes to enter mail delivery market 2008

Posted by | Sep 8, 2005 | |

German logistics services provider Hermes Logistik Gruppe, a subsidiary of the local mail order company Otto GmbH, plans to enter the German mail delivery market due to be liberalised in 2008, the company’s CEO, Hanjo Schneider, said.
Hermes will charge between 10 pct and 15 pct below the tariffs of current monopoly Deutsche Post, Schneider added. As from January 1, 2008, the Hamburg-based company will offer, through mail delivery firm Europost which it co-owns, a nationwide mail delivery network with own mailboxes at its 11,000 outlets. Currently, Hermes (www.hermes-logistik-gruppe.de) competes with Deutsche Post on the market for package deliveries for private clients. The company plans to triple its share on the private clients market to 15 pct by the end of 2005, Schneider said.

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Exel to open books as Deutsche Post prepares for bid

Posted by | Sep 6, 2005 | |

Exel agreed to open its books to Deutsche Post yesterday to allow the German postal group to conduct limited due diligence ahead of a potential Pounds 3.8bn bid for its UK rival. The decision follows discussions over the weekend between the two companies, which resulted in Deutsche Post making a preliminary takeover proposal. The German group is understood to be offering a mix of cash and paper, with up to 30 per cent made up of shares, according to people close to the situation. The value of the bid is slightly more than Pounds 12 a share. Exel’s closing share price yesterday was Pounds 11.85. Deutsche Post aims to make an announcement on an agreed deal in one to two weeks. It is proposing cost synergies of Pounds 200m and has offered John Allan, Exel chief executive, a seat on its management board. Mr Allan would head the combined logistics division, replacing Frank Appel, current head of logistics, who is seen as the likely successor to Klaus Zumwinkel, Deutsche Post’s long-serving chief executive.

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Royal Mail set to ‘lose a third’ of its market when letter monopoly ends

Posted by | Sep 4, 2005 | |

The Royal Mail is to face a three-way battle for customers and will lose up to a third of its revenues, one of its main rivals is predicting. Peter Bakker, the chief executive of Dutch post and logistics group TNT, says he expects at least two serious rivals to emerge to Royal Mail when its monopoly on letter delivery ends next year. Each, says Mr Bakker, will take 10 to 15 per cent of Royal Mail’s business. He was speaking as another of the expected challengers to Royal Mail, Deutsche Post, was revealed as the suitor of Exel Logistics, the UK delivery group. Both Deutsche Post and TNT are already making inroads into the UK postal market, though mostly in what is known as the ‘access’ area. This is where post is collected from business clients, scanned and sent to regional centres, where it is then passed to the Royal Mail for sorting and delivery.
Mr Bakker said his group soon hopes to be in the ‘consolidation’ area, where TNT will sort mail but Royal Mail staff still deliver. It is installing high-tech sorting equipment in its 69 regional hubs in the next few months.

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