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Largest parcel sorting terminal in the Baltic States opens in Latvia

Posted by | May 8, 2007 | |

On May 7th, a new parcel sorting terminal that belongs to DPD European network was officially opened in Riga. The terminal is the largest in the Baltic States with the total sorting area of 2900 sq. m. It is even 500 sq. m larger than last year opened Tallinn terminal.

Latvian parcel sorting terminal is situated in 4 kilometers from Riga’s city center. Total terminal territory is 9600 sq. m. There are 71 pick-up and distribution gates installed, and parcel sorting conveyor is 1 kilometer long. That is five times longer than in Tallinn which previously was called the longest.

“Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian small parcel delivery market usually is treated as one, Baltic country market. That is why the terminal, which is build in strategically convenient place, will increase technical capabilities not even in the country where it is build, but in the neighboring countries – Lithuania and Estonia. The maximum sorting capacity of new terminal is 6 000 parcels per hour or 140 000 parcels per day”, – says Vytautas Kudzys, Managing Director for the Baltic States.

According to him, the need of new terminals shows, that small parcel delivery services are used more often, and trust of companies providing these services is growing.

DPD Latvija turnover was 2,4 mln. Lats (3,4 mln. Eur) in 2006, it was by 69% more than in 2005.

DPD Latvija belongs to international parcel delivery network DPD, which is represented in Lithuania by DPD Lietuva, in Estonia – by DPD Eesti. The shares of these companies belong to French Post company GeoPost.

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DPD Lithuania will carry parcels to Greece

Posted by | May 2, 2007 | |

Starting from May 2007 parcels delivery service provider DPD Lietuva (Latvia), suggested new parcels delivery direction for Lithuanian market. From now on Lithuanian businessmen will be able to transport parcels to Greece.

“After French post company GeoPost, owner of DPD Lietuva, purchased company that deals with parcels delivery in Greece, boarders and possibilities of DPD network were broadened. This is one of the last EU countries where to we didn’t transport parcels from Lithuania. Lithuanian companies are increasingly interested in Greece as in a market of potential consumers, therefore we are glad to enter it together with our customers”, – states DPD Lietuva manager of sales and marketing for Baltic countries Gintaras Bingelis.

According to him, after introducing directions to new EU member states Romania and Bulgaria in the beginning of this year and after adding new direction to Greece to service package in May, company DPD Lietuva will transport parcels to 25 European countries.

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DPD Lietuva parcels up to 36.6 % during the first quarter

Posted by | Apr 26, 2007 | |

DPD Lietuva transported 676 000 parcels during the first quarter of this year. A rise of 36.6 % ahead of the first quarter of 2006 when 495 000 parcels were transported.

„Our company experiences essential changes at the moment. In the end of the last year we have changed the brand of company, in this month we have finished to unify names of products and services that are provided for market. A stable growth in the increase in number of parcels confirms that customers understood the meaning of these changes and proves that we have earned trust of customers, in this case, businessmen, and the changes and improvements are valued“, – said director of sales and marketing of DPD Lietuva Gintaras Bingelis.

According to him, the stable growth is felt not only in the results of the quarter. Stability is reflected in annual sales of company DPD Lietuva, too.

Our company’s sales grew up almost equally around 40% during 2005 and 2006. The growth is determined by constant investments in development and modernization of business and improvement of services. This phenomena is also influenced by the stable growth of parcels delivery service market and it’s created competitive circumstances, clear distribution of market participants also allows to plan precisely our actions in order to grow further quite new market”, – said Gintaras Bingelis, DPD Lietuva sales and marketing director.

According to him, company plans similar growth, around 40%, this year too.

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New classification of DPD Lietuva products titles

Posted by | Apr 19, 2007 | |

Parcels courier service leader in Lithuania company “DPD Lietuva” has finished it’s second re-branding stage – in all Baltic countries it has developed new differentiation of DPD services before named by single name “Bizpak”.

“We have separated four products titles for Baltic region, two international product titles and nine additional services titles. With the unification of services and products titles in all three DPD companies in Baltic countries the “Bizpak” re-branding history is symbolically ending and we expect to strengthen our positions even more in Baltic countries region and entire Europe”, – said “DPD Lietuva” Director of Sales and Marketing for Baltic States Gintaras Bingelis.

According to him, unified services and products titles will enhance customers’ reliance and facilitate their decision and perception which service will be the most convenient to the moment.

“Services and their possibilities for business will remain the same after changing the brand and names of these services. We will continue to seek that every customer would get reliable, high quality logistics solution that meets customers requirements and we will be investing into the new products development”, – said Gintaras Bingelis, “DPD Lietuva” the Director of Sales and Marketing for Baltic States.

“DPD Lietuva” leadership made the decision to change their brand in June 2006 and planes to complete re-branding process from Bizpak to DPD till 2008.

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DPD expands express services in Germany

Posted by | Apr 2, 2007 | |

DPD has upgraded its express services to try to win more business in the strongly-growing premium segment of the CEP market.

The GeoPost subsidiary said that it has expanded its existing time-definite next-day delivery options of 10:00 and 12:00 with the addition of an 8:30 option and a Saturday delivery service. These new options were introduced on February 1.

With effect from April 1, DPD is offering further express service options. These include recipient identity checks, shipment collection or exchange, and pro-active alerts per SMS.

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