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Kraft Foods expands business with DHL as its primary US express carrier

Posted by | Jan 14, 2008 | |

DHL announced that Kraft Foods has renewed and expanded its contract with DHL as its primary US express carrier. DHL will provide US express shipping services for Kraft Foods.

With annual revenues of more than USD 34 billion, Kraft Foods markets a broad portfolio of brands such as Kraft cheeses, dinners and dressings; Oscar Mayer meats; Philadelphia cream cheese; Nabisco cookies and crackers; Jacobs coffees and Milka chocolates.

DHL will provide express services for Kraft’s letters and small package shipments, including pickup and delivery of food product samples, point-of-sale advertising, inter-office documents and payroll, and product-sampling items – for Kraft vendors, plants, distribution centers, and its corporate offices.

DHL has also been chosen by Kraft Foods as a provider for US ground delivery and international express services.

“Kraft has been a valued partner for nearly 20 years,” said Charles Brewer, Executive Vice President of Sales, for DHL. “We are seeing many of the largest multi-national companies enhance their operations by leveraging DHL’s flexibility, customer-focused commitment, and ongoing US network enhancements.”

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Confidential details fall off the back of lorries

Posted by | Jan 14, 2008 | |

A box containing the banking details of 200 rich investors was found by the side of the road after apparently falling off the back of a courier’s van.

The container, which included cheques and other sensitive papers, was supposed to be safely carried between a Prudential building in Reading to a secure storage facility in Essex by a DHL courier. Instead, it wound up close to a motorway slip road.

Financial details of 200 wealthy investors, including three national lottery winners, were exposed as a result. Luckily, the box was discovered by a vehicle recovery driver on a roundabout close to the slip road for Junction 11 of the M4 near Reading in Berkshire. The documents have since been returned to Prudential.

Preliminary results from an investigation into the incident suggests that the box fell out of a van door that the DHL driver had failed to properly close. Prudential has suspended the use of DHL as a courier until the investigation is over, This is London reports.

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Labour news from UNI global union

Posted by | Jan 11, 2008 | |

An extraordinary meeting of UNI Post & Logistics global union has given the go ahead to step up campaigning across the sector. A key target is DHL.

A global alliance of DHL trade unions is being launched to build union membership and to win a global agreement that recognises labour rights wherever DHL operates around the world.

UNI – which already has DHL organising projects in Hong Kong and Latin America – will direct the campaign and help develop the research on which specific activities will be based. Verdi, which is the home union for Deutsche Post, will also play a key role.
It was agreed to set up a Steering Group to oversee the campaign that will also lay the foundations for future campaigns in other post and logistic multinationals.

The meeting agreed to step up cooperation with the International Transport Workers Federation as boundaries between postal operators and transport/logistics giants become increasingly blurred with de-regulation of postal services well underway in Europe and Japan.

Meeting advisor Paul Goulter with Post & Logistics President Rolf Büttner

UNI Post & Logistics is to set up a UNI Regulation Watch to assist affiliates in challenging the increasingly political decisions of postal regulators.

Many of their decisions determine how effective protection will be for the universal postal service, on which communities and jobs depend. Unions will have to become increasingly nimble as new and often-small private operators increasingly employ workers in the sector.

Unions are to be encouraged to help develop new services in the traditional postal operators – like delivering remittance money across the world for migrant workers to support families back home. The aim is to challenge the growing trend by governments under a political agenda to cut back the activities of traditional operators and allow outside private companies to cherry pick their services.

In Europe protection for traditional postal operators will disappear from 2011/13 as a result of a decision by the European Union while Japan Post is already in a ten-year process of division and privatisation.

“Europe has come up with a rotten piece of legislation,” UNI General Secretary Philip Jennings told the meeting in Nyon, Switzerland. “The EU has washed its hands of protecting the postal service and we have to help national trade unions defend this key service to the public.”

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DHL re-launches ‘university express’ service

Posted by | Jan 11, 2008 | |

DHL, has re launched its ‘university express’ service in Pakistan, designed especially for students applying for international admissions to universities and colleges around the world.

Yasin Amanullah, DHL’s National Marketing Manager, said, “With DHL’s university express, students can rest assured that their applications will be delivered safely and on time. When students are looking for timely delivery of their applications to meet university and college deadlines, all at an affordable price, university express stands out as the obvious solution”.

He said increasing competition for overseas university admissions has led more students to focus on ensuring their applications are sent and received on time. Students who will use the university express service by DHL, also enjoy over 30 percent discount on the special service.

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DHL becomes official express and logistics partner for IMG's Fashion Weeks worldwide

Posted by | Jan 11, 2008 | |

DHL will become the official express and logistics partner for IMG’s Fashion Weeks around the world, a series of prestigious shows produced and/or represented by IMG Fashion in ten countries spanning four continents each year. Following a year working with IMG Fashion in the U.S. market, DHL is now increasing its relationship as the official international express and logistics partner of these events.

First in its lineup of events will be the Milano Moda Uomo, held from 12 – 15 January, 2008, in Italy and then at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin that will take place from Jan. 27 – 31 January. Other shows will continue throughout the year. DHL will use these events to strengthen its business penetration with the fashion, apparel and retail industries.

Maintaining a partnership with many well known fashion labels and top brands of the apparel industry, the logistics experts at DHL have been working for years to develop tailor-made transport solutions that address the latest trends in the fashion world and meet the specific needs of individual customers. DHL’s presence in more than 220 countries and territories ensures that the creations of international designers arrive at major fashion shows right on time.

At the beginning of 2007, DHL and IMG Fashion reached an agreement that made the company the official express and logistics partner for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weeks in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. This partnership is now being expanded around the world.

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