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Kuehne+Nagel announces Klaus-Michael Kuehne's personal succession plan

Posted by | Jul 24, 2008 | |

Effective October 1, 2008, Klaus-Michael Kuehne will delegate important functions within his scope of responsibilities to Karl Gernandt.

Gernandt will become board member of the Kuehne Foundation, Schindellegi, and managing director of the newly planned Klaus-Michael Kuehne Foundation. He will also be appointed president of a new Hamburg-based company – the Logistics Centre of Excellence – that will co-ordinate all the donor’s activities in worldwide logistics research and education.

Gernandt will maintain offices in Hamburg, Germany and Schindellegi, Switzerland.

Kuehne plans to step down from his post as delegate of the board of directors of Kuehne + Nagel International, and will recommend Gernandt as his successor.

Klaus-Michael Kuehne commented on his decision: “At the age of 71, I have decided to pass many of my responsibilities into younger hands and I am fortunate to have found a person to whom I will entrust a significant part of my life’s work.”

He added that he intends to expand the field of interest of the Kuehne Holding AG and to initiate new entrepreneurial engagements. “As the Kuehne Foundation will someday inherit my shareholding in Kuehne + Nagel, the board of the foundation will be enlarged and rejuvenated with top management talent.”

Kuehne will remain president of the board of the Kuehne Foundation and chairman of the board of directors of Kuehne + Nagel International, working in close cooperation with Gernandt.

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Royal Mail bosses under pressure for closing profitable branches (UK)

Posted by | Jul 24, 2008 | |

MPs warn in a new report that post offices in pubs and shops could be at risk because of inadequate funding and call for more transparency in the way Royal Mail treats its public subsidy.
Ministers have told Royal Mail to close 2,500 out of 14,000 branches in a bid to cut the network’s annual subsidy by GBP 40million to GBP 150million a year and stem losses running at GBP 4million a week.
However, Paula Vennells, Post Office Limited’s branch network director, told MPs on the Business and Enterprise committee that some of the condemned branches were making money.
She disclosed that 10 profitable branches will be closed during the 18 month-long Network Change Programme – or just over one every six weeks.
The committee’s chairman Peter Luff, who is publishing the report into the financial viability of the post office network, said it “made no sense” to allow profitable post offices to close.
The committee calls on the National Audit Office to investigate the financial arrangements for so-called ‘outreach’ services which Royal Mail is setting up when it has to close branches.
They call for close examination of the relationship between Post Office and its parent company Royal Mail Group after finding that money provided by Royal Mail was not enough for the Post Office to run its services.
The MPs also said Royal Mail should provide “clear information” on what services Royal Mail expects to be provided, how it works out what to pay for them, and how much they actually cost to deliver.
They questioned whether Royal Mail was using the Post Office to “cross-subsidise” some of its mail services. Last year the network received GBP 358 million for providing mail services to Royal Mail.

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The postal sector joins forces to manage its carbon footprint

Posted by | Jul 24, 2008 | |

PostEurop, a Restricted Union representing 48 European public postal operators, has teamed up with the UPU Sustainable Development Project Group to share the results of the work carried out within the framework of its greenhouse gas reduction programme.

A joint technical committee will be formed and tasked with establishing a series of measures to cut the CO2 emissions of the sector as a whole. This agreement between PostEurop and the UPU marks a milestone for the two organizations and fits within the broader framework of the partnership agreement for a more environmentally friendly postal sector concluded between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UPU in April 2008.

PostEurop’s Environment Working Group, which has launched a greenhouse gas reduction programme providing for a 10 pct reduction in greenhouse emissions by 2012, will share its best practices and initiatives in the areas of transport, building, product development and operator procurement policy. This agreement provides a basis for the actions of the technical committee.

Pierre MAWAS, Chairman of PostEurop’s Environment Working Group said: “A recognized CO2 measurement protocol is the first step of any effective carbon management policy. We strongly believe that collaboration on that level will show the commitment of the postal sector as a whole to take a common approach and integrate sustainability in the future of the business.”

Daniel LE GOFF, Stakeholder Relations Coordinator at the UPU, added: “Such a collaboration increases our chances of success in setting up the right carbon management programme for the postal sector as a whole. It also means that such important work can be carried out faster and more efficiently.”

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Numonyx to use DHL facility as distribution hub

Posted by | Jul 24, 2008 | |

DHL International has signed a deal with Numonyx, suppliers of non-volatile memory chips, to distribute its products, Business Times Singapore reports.

Numonyx will make Singapore its global finished good distribution hub, using DHL’s 18,000 sq ft Bedok North Global Distribution Centre for all inbound and outbound goods distribution.

A large number of Numonyx’s customers, suppliers and plants are located in Asia.

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