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TNT Post appoints Andrew Firth as a regional Business Development Director

Posted by | Aug 9, 2007 | |

TNT Post is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Firth as a regional Business Development Director. Based at TNT Post in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Andrew will be responsible for developing new business initiatives from Greater London to the Midlands and expanding the company’s rapidly growing client base. He will manage a team of 13 staff and will report to Bob van Ierland, Director of End to End Development.

Andrew joins TNT Post with more than 25 years of experience working in logistics. Previously, Andrew ran his own logistics consultancy handling contracts worth up to GBP 1 million per annum. Prior to that, in 2003, Andrew was drafted in to save a specialist logistics and installation company, which he then made profitable within two years.

The team Andrew joins started operations in August 2006 and focuses specifically on attracting new business from Greater London to the Midlands.

TNT Post now boasts a customer base of more than 200 local businesses in Greater London to the Midlands, with the majority receiving TNT Post’s PremierSort Flex, a two to three day postal service, with Royal Mail continuing to carry out the final mile delivery to customers’ homes nationwide. Current customers come from a range of sectors such as government, automobile and entertainment.

The PremierSort Flex service is specifically tailored to meet the needs of small to medium sized businesses or companies that have lower business mail volumes and offers valuable benefits to local businesses such as: flexible pick up times, cost savings, use of tracking systems that enable improved visibility and management, and a fast and reliable high level of service.

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DHL Express disposes of two subsidiaries to Austrian Post

Posted by | Aug 9, 2007 | |

DHL Express has reached an agreement to sell its Dutch subsidiary Dedicated Distribution Services (DDS) and its Belgian subsidiary Van Osselaer Pieters Colli Service (VOP) to Österreichische Post AG (ÖPAG), the Austrian post office. The transaction is a further step in DHL’s strategy to optimize the strategic synergies within the EXPRESS organization and thus to maximize shareholder value. The transaction will not have any effect on the services provided to existing customers.

“It is our explicit strategy within DHL EXPRESS Global to focus on core express products and services. Our primary focus is to ensure that our businesses are synergistic. This means putting emphasis on systematized products with similar features, standard shipment characteristic and high quality levels. This will ensure that we significantly enhance the quality of our offering and provide increased benefits to customers and other stakeholders. This divestment program is an important step to bring healthy returns on capital employed”, said John Mullen, CEO of DHL EXPRESS Global and Member of the Board of Management at Deutsche Post World Net.

After transferring the DHL Freight business from EXPRESS to LOGISTICS in 2006 and integrating the standard Parcel business in Germany into the MAIL division, the current sale of the two Benelux subsidiaries is another milestone in DHL’s strategic approach to simplify its business processes and to increase the transparency of its product offerings.

The parties have agreed not to disclose the value of the transactions.

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Consumers and Members of Parliament demand to see Royal Mail financial report

Posted by | Aug 9, 2007 | |

Royal Mail came under attack yesterday for refusing to publish its delayed financial results as it emerged that it has given them to the postal regulator.

Royal Mail would not give a reason, but speculation is growing that it wants to avoid controversy over executive bonuses or hide the fact that its financial performance is better than expected. Both issues would prove tricky as it battles with the Communication Workers Union.

Royal Mail said that it had not set a date to make the results public. The figures are for its year to the end of March and usually are published in May. It has avoided a fine by sending the numbers to Postcomm within a deadline set by its license, but the regulator has no obligation to make them public.

The delay comes as postal workers are staging a month of strikes in the worst dispute to hit the business for 11 years and as thousands of post offices are being closed.

Royal Mail had to supply figures to Postcomm no later than four months after the end of the financial reporting period, (therefore, July 31) to fulfill its license. It is obliged to file the accounts with Companies House at the end of next month, six months after the close of its reporting period.

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