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Consumer deliveries and international business to drive German CEP market growth

Posted by | Jan 19, 2007 | |

The German courier, express and parcels (CEP) market is likely to grow only moderately in the 4% – 5% range over the next few years. International business will continue to grow well while consumer deliveries will generate the bulk of new volumes in the domestic sector. Those are the key findings of the newly-published “CEP Market Fact Sheet Germany” from CEP-Research. The in-depth report also contains detailed market and competitor figures, profiles of the ten leading operators, and a comparative overview of their products.

Germany reinforced its status as Europe’s largest CEP market with total revenues of just over EUR 9.2 billion in 2005, the latest report by the Hamburg-based market research company revealed. The deferred parcels segment, accounting for over 60% of market revenues, grew faster than the express sector. Confirming the recent trend towards more online-generated parcels business, the B2C/C2C (or “consumer deliveries”) segment has grown to 32% of the market. Domestic business accounted for about 75% of market revenues. “We are now expecting a 4.6% increase for the overall market in 2006, with the B2C/C2C segment generating somewhat higher growth,” commented Robert Thyssen, CEP-Research manager.

In its medium-term forecast, CEP-Research predicted that the German market will grow moderately by 4.4% a year to reach total revenues of over EUR 11.4 billion in 2010. International growth will outpace domestic market growth. Key factors driving additional volumes will be the emergence of Central and Eastern Europe as an important regional import and export market, and rising international trade with Asia. While competition in the B2B sector will intensify, domestic market growth is likely to be mostly generated by increasing demand in the B2C and C2C segments.

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DPD Lithuania to deliver parcels to EU newcomers

Posted by | Jan 2, 2007 | |

DPD Lietuva, the Lithuanian express parcel delivery company, will ship parcels to the European Union (EU) newcomers Bulgaria and Romania starting from 2007.

DPD network has become the first European parcel operator to launch the delivery of parcels by roads to these countries, DPD Lietuva has said in a statement.

Parcels from Vilnius to Bucharest and Sofia would be delivered in five and six business days, respectively, said Gintaras Bingelis, DPD Lietuva sales and marketing director for the Baltic countries. In Bulgaria and Romania, the parcels will be delivered by GeoPost Bulgaria and GeoPost Cargus.

DPD Lietuva currently offers parcel delivery services to 23 European Union (EU) Member States and from 18 EU Members.

Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU on Jan. 1.

DPD Lietuva offers a parcel delivery service DPD/Bizpak. The company posted 27.6 million litas (EUR 8 mln) in sales for full 2005, a surge of 39 percent versus the year-earlier figure.

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Will Postal Strike Knock Poczta Polska Out?

Posted by | Nov 29, 2006 | |

Over 12,000 postmen going on strike spells trouble not only for millions of Poles looking forward to sending Christmas cards to their loved ones; the protest by employees of Poczta Polska has ruined the promotional strategy of a number of companies which rely on the state mail and has generally made life much harder for virtually all of its customers. At the same time, it uncovered the inefficiency of the state-controlled institution. Perhaps the strengthening competition will wake it from its slumber.

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Liberalisation, privatisation and regulation in the German postal services sector

Posted by | Nov 1, 2006 | |

The public monopoly in the German postal sector had already been called into question
in the public debate in the 1980s. In 1985 the German government, which at that time
was composed of a coalition of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and the Liberal
Party (FDP), established a government committee that dealt with possible forms and
steps of privatisation and liberalisation concerning the postal and telecommunications
sector (Wehner 2005: 5, 6). The official start for the privatisation and liberalisation of
the German Post (Deutsche Bundespost) was in 1989. Through the first postal reform
(Poststrukturgesetz/Postreform I) the German Post was divided into three sectors: postal
service, postal banking and telecommunications. The political functions (regulation of
the monopolies) were separated from the entrepreneurial ones. In the course of the
second postal reform (Postreform II), which came into force at the beginning of 1995,
the three postal corporations were transformed into incorporated companies. In the first
instance the German Federal Government retained all shares of the German Post which
was renamed the Deutsche Post AG (DPAG). These two steps were affected by the
(partial) privatisation and the preparation of further liberalisation measures. The process
of liberalisation reached its preliminary climax in 1998 when a new Postal Act
(Postgesetz) came into force. Via this Act the postal market was gradually opened to
competition by successively restraining the exclusive license of the DPAG; the end of
the exclusive license was originally planned to be in 2002 but was lengthened until the
end of 2007. Moreover, the rules for licensing were laid down and the terms for the
access to the market were defined.
In November 2000 the material privatisation of the DPAG began with its initial public
offer (IPO). In the course of the IPO the DPAG was renamed as the Deutsche Post
World Net (DPWN). In order to prepare for the imminent end of its monopoly the
DPWN made several acquisitions abroad.

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DPD Switzerland introduces international mail service

Posted by | Oct 17, 2006 | |

DPD has launched a new service in Switzerland for outbound international mail. Volumes are transferred to parent company La Poste in Paris for worldwide distribution.

DPD Switzerland said that international mail lies outside the monopoly reserved area for Swiss Post. It now offers customers the option of collecting their international mail, and forwarding it to La Poste for sorting and onward distribution.

The French post office subsidiary said it is putting particular focus on offering good value for money. The product’s competitiveness is further increased by its strong international network and one-stop shopping service.

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