Tag: DHL Express

DHL plans to buy logistics companies in Baltics

Posted by | Jul 13, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post AG’s express services and logistics company DHL plans to buy local logistics companies in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, BNS news agency said. Managing director of DHL Express Nordics Bill A. Blomquist said the company plans to expand in the Baltic countries. ‘This will happen through organic growth and takeover of local logistics companies,’ he said. Blomquist said the process has already started and talks with local companies are underway.

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German DHL Express to promote Europlus Courier Service in Poland

Posted by | May 30, 2005 | |

German express delivery services provider DHL Express, a subsidiary of mail services group Deutsche Post, will start promoting its new courier service DHL Europlus in Poland on June 1, 2005, Aleksander Morozowski, CEO of the company’s Polish unit, said.

The promotion campaign, which will last for three months, is connected with the recent opening of DHL Express’s international parcels sorting centre in Zabrze, Silesia province, southern Poland.

During the company’s promotion campaign parcels from Zabrze centre will be delivered to countries south of Poland, including the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, France, Italy and Hungary, in two or three working days at a 50 pct discount price, Morozowski added.

DHL Europlus service enables customers to order a courier and to monitor the parcel shipment through the Internet.

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DHL reins in its ambitions in US market

Posted by | May 18, 2005 | |

DHL has said it does not want to chase US market share from UPS and FedEx, signalling a reining in of the company’s ambitions in North America. John Mullen, joint chief executive of DHL Express, characterised the company’s plans in the US as “realistic and modest”, insisting it was not “setting out to create another UPS or FedEx”. His comments, at a Bear Stearns investor conference in New York, eased concern that DHL might spark a price war in the US package delivery market after two years of heavy investment. Mr Mullen said the company’s most urgent objective in the US was to improve service quality, which he described as having been “horrendous” last year. Once service improved, DHL would seek to increase prices closer to those of UPS and FedEx rather than cut them, he said. “We’re not driven by market share gains,” said Mr Mullen. “We want to get more value out of the volume we have rather than chase more volume.”

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Couriers Keep Ringing the Doorbell Until Someone Answers

Posted by | May 10, 2005 | |

Polish Post (Poczta Polska) will soon have to face new competitors. It’s possible our letters will be delivered by yellow-clad Deutsche Post mailmen or La Poste employees is navy blue. Today, we have no choice. If we want to send a letter or a postcard, we have to do so through Polish Post. Until the end of 2008, it has a guaranteed monopoly on light weight parcels (up to 50 grams). Before we send the parcel, it is worth taking a look at the calendar. A priority letter (more expensive than the regular type) will be delivered the day after it is sent, if we put it in the mailbox in morning hours.

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