Tag: Europe

Hackländer named Managing Director of EURODIS

Posted by | Nov 16, 2005 | |

Marc Christian Hackländer has been appointed Managing Director of EURODIS GmbH, a member company of the trans-o-flex group. He will chiefly be responsible for network and partner management. This represents the first time that the international distribution network of trans-o-flex, in existence since 1993, has had its own corporate entity and management. The main objective of EURODIS GmbH will be to anchor the specialised trans-o-flex services on a unified Europe-wide basis.

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Minister rules out aid to UK Royal Mail to clear Pounds 4bn pensions deficit

Posted by | Nov 16, 2005 | |

Any “bail-out” of Royal Mail’s Pounds 4bn pension fund deficit by taxpayers was yesterday ruled out by the government in the first clear statement of its plans for the state-owned postal operator in the run-up to full market competition next year. But the minister responsible for Royal Mail held out the prospect there could be extra government money to help pay for new equipment. MPs were told by Barry Gardiner, competitiveness minister, the government might breach European state aid laws if it agreed to the company’s request to put billions of pounds into the pension fund. “We should not be seen as the bailer-out, the funder of last resort,” he said. Asked if the government should be prepared to make at least some contribution to reducing the deficit, which has rendered Royal Mail technically insolvent, the minister said: “No. This should be done (dealing with the deficit) as it would be commercially.”

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Marie-Christine Lombard, Group Managing Director of TNT Express, receives the insignia of Chevalier from the National Order of the Legion of Honour

Posted by | Nov 16, 2005 | |

TNT N.V.today announced that Marie-Christine Lombard, Group Managing Director TNT Express, will receive a distinguished award from the National Order of the Legion of Honour in a ceremony that will take place tonight. Alain Bréau, Co-President of the French Transport and Logistics Federation (TLF) and a Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honour will present Marie-Christine with the insignia of Chevalier award, at the offices of the French Business Confederation (MEDEF) in Paris.

The award recognises Marie Christine’s achievement as one of the few women to lead a global group of this scale, something that was highlighted with her inclusion in the Financial Times’ list of Europe’s 25 top business women.

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GLS to open 150 Parcel Shops in Belgium

Posted by | Nov 15, 2005 | |

General Logistics Systems (GLS) plans to open 150 ‘parcel shops’ in Belgium, the company said on November 15, 2005. The first parcel dispatch outlets will be open in Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp by the end of 2005. The company aims at having 100 parcel shops in Belgium by 2007. The outlets will be opened at the newspaper stores of local shopping centres. The company opened its first parcel shops in Germany in 1997. Currently it operates 2,500 outlets designed under the parcel shop concept.

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Belgian De Post/La Poste to cut capital to 270 mln Euro

Posted by | Nov 15, 2005 | |

Belgian postal service company De Post/La Poste plans to decrease its capital to 270 mln euro (USD315.7 mln) from 603.6 mln euro (USD705.8 mln), Bruno Tuybens, the Belgian Secretary of State for Public Enterprise, said on November 12, 2005, confirming media reports.

The capital reduction is a ‘routine accounting practice’, Tuybens added.

The move is not linked with the planned deal, in which a consortium led by Danish post office Post Danmark will buy a stake in De Post/La Poste, nor with the amount distributed by the postal company to the Belgian government, Tuybens said.

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