Tag: Europe

Global-Z Enhances Central & Eastern European Address Hygiene for Direct Marketers

Posted by | Sep 10, 2007 | |

Global-Z International, a bureau specializing in the data processing of international mailing addresses for global direct marketers, announced today the addition of Poland to their data processing service designed to help mailers initiate and maintain better direct mail communication with new and existing customers in Central & Eastern Europe, in general, and Poland specifically.

“We have seen a recent and growing demand for postal data processing for Central & Eastern European countries, such as Poland.” noted Sasha Garder, President at Global-Z. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in Poland has been strong and steady with its entry into the EU in 2004. Including planned incorporation of the Euro as its official currency scheduled for January 2012 (replacing the current official currency; Zloty), opportunities for Poland ‘s citizens, its neighboring EU members, and for direct marketers looking to add fuel to Poland ‘s economic engine, Garder added “Global-Z has seen growing demand for quality postal data hygiene.

Turkey and Croatia , also in negotiations for EU membership, will also get a close look from abroad from many perspectives– including that of direct marketers. Turkey is a country for which Global-Z provides direct marketers with postal address verification, correction and standardization at the street, city and post code levels of resolution. Additionally, this same level of Global-Z address resolution is available to mailers looking toward Hungary . Garder concluded, “As the EU expands its member states, direct marketers’ growing interest in these regions of opportunity will no doubt expand Global-Z’s Central and Eastern European response to market demand.”

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Austria Post to increase full year dividend by around 25 pct on 2006

Posted by | Sep 9, 2007 | |

Austrian Post AG is going to increase its full year dividend by 25 pct on 2006 and return at least 70 pct of its net profit to shareholders, the company’s chief executive Anton Wais said.

Wais said in addition EBIT is also expected to increase by between 20 and 25 pct and the dividend will reflect this growth accordingly, in an interview with the Austrian daily WirtschaftsBlatt.

For 2006 Austrian Post shareholders received a dividend of 1 eur a share, a payout of 70 mln eur for the postal company.

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Poland: CTL Logistics briefs British MPs on Polish rail freight market

Posted by | Sep 8, 2007 | |

Pawe³ Szymañski, Chief Financial Officer at CTL Logistics S.A., outlined CTL’s market position and strategy for its European business to Rail Freight Group, an asso-ciation of British MPs and managers, during its recent visit to Poland.

Szymañski pointed out that CTL is consistently expanding its rail transport and logistics operations in Poland, which is a secure basis for all its activities that will enable it to pro-vide international services.

CTL is making significant efforts outside Poland to obtain licenses to run its own rail operations in all the main EU markets. Last week, the company was granted a safety certificate in the Netherlands, a key prerequisite for transporting containers from North Sea ports to Central and Eastern Europe. CTL has also entered into agreements with coun-tries to the east of Poland, outside EU borders, i.e. beyond the liberalized transport area, allowing it to take and hand over block trains at borders and organize further transport in the wide gauge system.

CTL is also purchasing a fleet of multi-system locomotives suitable for international traffic and has deployed its own wagons wherever availability of equipment is vital for meeting customer requirements, such as for transporting cars.

In order to plan and manage trains on a uniform basis, CTL is currently establishing a unique Train Control Center for managing its entire rolling stock and staff deployment.

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Dutch TNT says up to 11,000 layoffs possible

Posted by | Sep 8, 2007 | |

TNT NV said on Saturday it may have to lay off up to 11,000 workers due to rising competition in its home market, where the company is set to lose its remaining monopoly from next year.

The company said in April it will seek to freeze wages and cut up to 7,000 jobs to help lower costs by 300 million euros (USD 413 million) by 2015, but now seems to feel harsher measures will be needed to remain competitive.

“We may have to go as far as 10,000 or 11,000 redundancies,” Chief Executive Peter Bakker told Reuters in an interview.

Competitive pressures are rising in Europe. The European Parliament voted in June to delay until 2011 a plan to open its 88 billion euro postal market to full competition, a move that unions say will lead to job losses and diminished service quality in rural areas.

“There is a choice to aggressively cut costs and lay off a large number of people,” said Bakker, who was in Dalian, China for the World Economic Forum.

“Or ask existing employees to take a wage freeze over a number of years,” he said. “It’s a horrible choice to make.”

TNT is one of the Netherlands largest employers with about 59,000 staff

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Port centric logistics delivers retail supply chain advantages

Posted by | Sep 7, 2007 | |

Panalpina has provided a port centric solution for its major home wares retail clients by outsourcing to TNT and Import Services

Panalpina’s clients previously managed their own supply chain once product arrived at the UK port of entry; however this was proving to be unnecessarily complex and costly. In consultation with its clients Panalpina has taken charge of the final stage of the journey and, with its partner’s expertise, is producing astonishing results.

Import Services and TNT provide two distinct services once Panalpina has moved product in sea containers, from origin to Southampton port.

TNT, the UK’s leading business to business express delivery service specialists, collects store ready consignments from the containers at its Southampton port based depot, before putting them into its national distribution network in readiness for next day delivery to high street retailers throughout the UK.

Import Services takes the residual bulk stock into its adjacent distribution centre where storage, order processing, high volume pick/pack and distribution of replenishment orders are effected.

Portcentric is the distribution to an end recipient straight from the port. A distribution model which is fast becoming the smart option as it offers impressive cost and time savings as well as attractive green credentials.

Portcentric distribution takes at least 10 percent of time out of the supply chain from the Far East and in Panalpina’s experience a significant percentage of cost. This saving plus a reduced carbon footprint, adds up to an exciting proposition which is starting to grab the attention of UK industry.

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