Tag: Europe

AnPost: Steps to Reduce Your Mailings’ Carbon Footprint

Posted by | Jul 16, 2008 | |

Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Ms. Mary Coughlan T.D. launched ‘Six Steps to Reduce your Mailings’ Carbon Footprint’, direct mail guidelines jointly developed by the Irish Direct Marketing Association (IDMA) and An Post.

The guidelines are a practical and informative resource for Irish marketers in the planning and development of environmentally responsible direct mail campaigns.

Stephen Stynes, Chairman of the IDMA said: “Direct Marketing is a powerful medium and it gets results. Customers appreciate meaningful, relevant mail, particularly when it offers them special rates. The challenge is to grow the business responsibly, to continue to thrive and to contribute to the economy, whilst lessening our impact on the environment. IDMA members and our mail partners at An Post believe that today’s initiative is a blueprint for eco-friendly business practice. I encourage our members to implement these guidelines and to play their part in reducing our carbon footprint.”

Liam Sheehan, Director of Sales & Marketing, An Post concluded, “We recognise sustainability as a core business objective, and this partnership with the IDMA is a marketplace initiative which can help businesses to manage their costs and their carbon footprint when communicating directly with customers. Sustainability through environmental best practise, and profitable activity which meets customer needs are the goals in mind within the ‘Six Steps’ guidelines. An Post will continue to work with business to manage and develop Direct Mail and to deliver a real impact on direct marketing’s environmental footprint”.

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Correos manages mail sorting through the Iris 6

Posted by | Jul 15, 2008 | |

Correos will manage mail sorting and sales with a single IT system, the IRIS 6. It is a more agile management system that simplifies the operating set-up used so far, as it take the place of or integrates a dozen different systems used up to now to manage one or several products included in the public postal operator’s global offer.
With the new IRIS 6, Correos receives correspondence and parcels, sends telegrams and faxes, manages P.O. boxes, the sale of products, and the array of services supplied by the office network.
The IRIS 6, is now operating as the only management system in the entire current CORREOS network of 2,226 offices and 57 Sorting Offices. The system serves almost 7,000 users constantly during office hours, making an average 18 million admissions and sales.
This single management system is part of CORREOS’ INTEGRA Plan, which includes the array of ICT initiatives promoted by the public postal operator to modernise its management and offer a higher-quality, more efficient postal service. The IRIS 6 will improve information support in current and future processes and will provide better service for the postal company’s customers. It will also enable the Company’s Office Network activity to be transparently and integrally gauged in real time.

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Cryoport teams up with FedEx

Posted by | Jul 15, 2008 | |

CryoPort, Inc, a supplier of temperature sensitive shipping solutions for the frozen biopharmaceutical industry, announced the release of CryoPort Express Portal 1.0 to select pharmaceutical and biomedical providers for final validation. The development and release of the portal follows an extensive review of existing solutions in the market and development of the portal using the latest Web. 2.0 standards and on demand cloud computing technologies. The result provides a rich, dynamic and highly interactive user experience as well as a highly secure and scalable architecture capable of supporting the planned growth of the Company.

CryoPort has introduced the industry’s first pay-per-use shipping solution with no up-front costs to the customer. This is backed up by an innovative user interface that greatly simplifies order-entry, automatically schedules multi-leg shipments, creates shipping labels and export documentation, provides real-time end-to-end tracking of the entire cold chain, and generates alarm notification of shipping delays.

CryoPort’s Express Portal is tightly integrated with the Federal Express data centre via a real-time B2B Web Service that enables CryoPort to monitor every step of the shipping process. Order processing, validation and scheduling are completed in real-time as the customer enters the order. Once the shipper enters the FedEx system, the CryoPort system will continuously monitor every step of the shipment through the FedEx operational framework. This unprecedented visibility into real-time shipping status information enhances CryoPort’s ability to detect and remedy shipping delays before they become costly operational exceptions.

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UPS expands in France

Posted by | Jul 15, 2008 | |

UPS wants to expand its presence in France with the opening of two new branches this year. In addition, the company expects to double the number of its employees in the next five years with the aim to become an important market player in the country, the French newspaper La Tribune reported.

To expand its regional network, UPS plans to open two new branches in France this year increasing the total number to 39 in the country, after having doubled the capacity of its road hub in Chilly-Mazarin, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris. Moreover, the company opened a new training centre in Rennes two months ago destined for future UPS managers to be responsible for Western Europe.

Even though UPS doesn’t have a strong position on the French market yet, it increased its turnover in France by 13 pct last year with the market growing by 4 pct. In the first 4 months of 2008, the turnover of the company increased by 16 pct.

Separately, UPS plans to recruit 300 new employees this year and expects to double its staff in 5 years. The company currently counts 2400 employees in France 800 of which are drivers.

To establish itself on a very competitive and mature market in France, UPS mainly targets small and medium sized enterprises (SME) focusing on luxury goods, vine, clothes, perfume etc. Due to booming e-commerce, UPS also tries to move increasingly towards private customers. Following this trend, the B2C sector is estimated to make up 20 pct of the turnover this year compared to 10 pct in 2007.

Established in France since 1981, UPS hasn’t been very active on the French market until now as it was busy expanding its presence in Asia and Eastern Europe. In China alone, the company opened 37 centres within one year.

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First DHL branded Tupolev now linking Moscow and Leipzig

Posted by | Jul 15, 2008 | |

DHL launched its first DHL branded Russian-built aircraft, a narrow-body Tupolev-204C aircraft. The Tupolev, branded in DHL’s trademark yellow and red coloring, took to the skies from Sheremetyevo International Airport on July 5, 2008, going to Leipzig/Halle airport, the home of DHL’s new European hub, which opened in May 2008. The Moscow-Leipzig flights will operate 6 days per week, and offer a capacity of 28,000kg per sector.

‘We are proud to also have a Russian aircraft flying in DHL branding. This shows our commitment to Russia and underlines our successful development in the Russian market’, said Adrian Marley, General Manager of DHL Express Russia.

DHL plans to strengthen the network for its customers’ cargo to ensure maximum uplift of their goods. This is expected to further enhance DHL’s proven ability to provide on-time, reliable delivery of shipments around the world and to take the company’s customer service to a new level.

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