Tag: Europe

DHL goes green with e-billing service

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

DHL is hoping to cut its carbon footprint by offering customers an e-billing service.

DHL plans to eliminate more than a third of the 18 million paper invoices it sends to European customers every year by 2010. The firm will do this by offering customers an e-billing option, whereby users login to an online portal to view and receive information about their invoices. As a result, the courier expects to save the equivalent of 2,400 trees and 600 tonnes of C02 a year.

DHL has already begun using e-billing in Europe, and expects to continue its existing success.
“The success of our e-billing project has already delivered significant environmental savings but this is a drop in the ocean compared to what we intend to achieve in the near future,” said Brian Thumwood, DHL’s E-Billing Manager for Europe.

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Federal Court of Justice grants protection for "Post" brand

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

The registered trademark “Post” will continue to be protected by law. This follows a ruling by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in which it upheld an appeal by Deutsche Post against the revoking of its “Post” trademark.
Almost 85 per cent of German consumers associate the term “post” with Deutsche Post.
Competitors of Deutsche Post had filed opposition to registration of the brand and in April 2007 they were successful in this endeavor before the German Federal Patent Court.
The decision by the Federal Court of Justice overturns that ruling.
The term “Post” was registered with the German Federal Patent and Trademark Office in 2003 as a so-called word mark of Deutsche Post. The background to this registration was a report which found that 84.6 per cent of consumers associated the term “Post” with Deutsche Post.
In June of this year the Federal Court of Justice ruled in two specific cases on how protection of the “Post” trademark should be interpreted in practice. They ruled that use of the term “Post” by competitors of Deutsche Post was only admissible in cases where they provided appropriate additional information in their business correspondence or advertising.
It was not, however, admissible to combine the word “Post” with other distinctive elements such as the color yellow or the post horn symbol which would increase the risk of confusion with the Deutsche Post brand.

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TNT opens first "green" depot in the Netherlands

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

TNT is today opening its first CO2 emission-free depot in Veenendaal, the Netherlands. The official opening is to be attended by Harry Koorstra, member of TNT’s Board of Management and Group Managing Director Mail The depot is the first in a series of “green” buildings to be used by TNT as part of its worldwide environmental programme, Planet Me. The global mail and express delivery company aims to cut the CO2 emissions of all of its buildings, totalling three million square metres of real estate in over sixty-five countries.
The building produces its own energy in a sustainable way. More than 300 solar panels collect sunlight and convert it into energy.
The depot was designed in close collaboration with the VolkerWessels construction company. TNT required the building to be CO 2 neutral in operation.
The combination of techniques and measures in one business site allows energy savings of over 70 per cent compared with a traditional depot. VolkerWessels expects other end users of sustainable business premises to choose the same solutions. TNT’s green depot has been operational since mid-October and functions as a mail distribution centre for Veenendaal and its surroundings.

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Swiss Post: Profit CHF 496 million below 2007 figure

Posted by | Oct 28, 2008 | |

In the first three quarters of 2007, Swiss Post generated Group profit of 496 million Swiss francs. This is CHF 203 million below the year-back figure. The decline is due primarily to higher fuel prices, growth- and inflation-induced additional expenditure and value adjustments on financial investments. Swiss Post expects its full-year result to be down on the previous year.
In the first nine months of 2008, Swiss Post generated Group profit of 496 million francs (2006: 699 million francs). This is CHF 203 million or 29 pct less than in 2007, which was a record year. All product-carrying Group units posted a decline. Growth- and inflation-induced additional expenditure, higher staff costs and value adjustments on financial investments were responsible for the lower profit figure. In addition, cuts in press subsidies and the parallel operation in the “Reengineering Mail” (REMA) project resulted in higher costs. PostFinance had to make writedowns totalling CHF 95 million on its financial investments. CHF 67 million of the writedowns relate to fixed-income investments and the remaining CHF 28 million to equity investments. Thanks to its risk-conscious investment strategy, the loss amounts to only around 0.2 pct of the total investment portfolio (see also PostFinance press release of 22 October).

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Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank partners with Post Office UK

Posted by | Oct 28, 2008 | |

Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank has teamed up with Post Office Limited to launch a new scheme for small businesses.
Under the new agreement, Post Office branches will be able to introduce a range of Alliance & Leicester business current accounts to small business customers.
The bank noted that the launch follows a successful pilot which was carried out with the National Federation of Sub Postmasters over a three-month period at 41 Post Offices across the UK.
Alliance & Leicester said that the customers of the bank already benefit from being able to carry out their day-to-day banking transactions at any of the UK’s network of Post Offices. Business customers are able to pay in or withdraw cash and check their account balance and deposit checks over the counter, as well as receive a change giving service. The new agreement further strengthens and extends Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank’s support for the Post Office network, the bank added.

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