Logistic company DHL Solutions, a unit of Deutsche Post AG (G.DPW), said Monday that it has signed a four-year contract with Swisscom AG’s (Z.SCM) fixed-line unit worth CHF2 million a year. DHL Solutions will handle the repair, exchange and disposal of around 700,000 Swisscom telephones a year.
Read MoreJurgen Weber, former chairman of Deutsche Lufthansa, Germany’s leading airline group, is rumoured to be about to be appointed as supervisory board member of Deutsche Post, Germany’s postal service operator.
Read MoreDeutsche Post AG and Verdi agreed on Saturday morning on a trend setting package of measures. On the one hand the company will not issue any compulsory redundancies until 31/03/2008 and guarantees deliveries using Deutsche Post personnel until 31/12/2006, except in 600 parcel districts. On the other hand Deutsche Post can sustainably improve its cost structures and in doing so clearly expand its competitive position in the express sector.
Read MoreDeutsche Postbank, the German bank, is planning to close its outlets in almost 1,200, largely rural post offices of Deutsche Post, the country’s postal service operator. The company explains that banking services at the post offices affected had become unprofitable.
Read MoreDHL’s Moscow-based executives say Deutsche Post World Net’s plans to bring its different courier-delivery and logistics companies together under the DHL brand name will bode well for their clients in the C.I.S. and Baltic states.
The announcement was made last week in Moscow during the official presentation of the rebranding program.
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