Tag: Europe

TNT launches new division in UK multi-media market

Posted by | Jul 13, 2007 | |

TNT has announced the launch of a new division with the aim of taking the largest market share in the growing multi media and entertainments sector in the UK. The newly formed TNT Media & Entertainment Division already has a number of contracts, including partnerships with customers such as Universal and Pinnacle Arvato.

TNT co-ordinates daily deliveries of CDs and DVDs to more than 2000 UK retail outlets, and is expanding into providing tailored services for film, music and computer gaming distributors.

Danny Geach, the newly-appointed General Manager of TNT Media & Entertainment, said: “This is an attractive new vertical market for us with customers who distribute high volumes of items to the High Street which is an area where we can obviously excel”.

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New CEO at DHL Express Sweden starting 2008

Posted by | Jul 13, 2007 | |

At his own request, DHL Express Sweden’s CEO, Lars Sundman, will be resigning from his post at the end of 2007. Lars Sundman is 57, and has worked with DHL management to draw up a smooth succession plan for DHL Express Sweden. Lars Sundman will remain a member of DHL Express Sweden’s Board of Directors, while continuing to work as advisor to the CEO of DHL Express Nordic.

Starting 6 January 2008, the new CEO will be Lars Jordahn, Danish by birth, who currently works at DHL in Brussels as head of Hubs & Gateways in Europe. Lars Jordahn started working at DHL in 1984 and has since held some ten positions of increasing responsibility within the company.

Lars Sundman started out working at ASG in 1977. ASG was later acquired by Deutsche Post World Net, leading eventually to the merger between DHL and Danzas in 2003. Lars Sundman has since then had a successful tenure as CEO of DHL Express Sweden.

Lars Jordahn will start out by managing two projects at DHL Express Sweden in August 2007. Alongside these responsibilities, he will undergo a five-month phasing-in period during which time he will be introduced to his work as chief executive officer by CEO Lars Sundman before ultimately taking over as CEO by the end of the year.

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Distribution company celebrates first anniversary in Bristol

Posted by | Jul 13, 2007 | |

Local distribution company John T Evans Haulage Ltd is celebrating its first anniversary in Bristol since it opened a new GBP 1m (25,000 sq) warehouse facility in Avonmouth last year.

The 25-year old company is a member of Palletways, Europe’s leading palletized freight network. John T Evans opened its Bristol operation last May with 18 employees and has since grown to over 25 members of staff with a fleet of 14 vehicles. Its location in Bristol is an important part of the company’s business development plans to increase its current turnover of GBP 6m to some GBP 10m over the next three years.

As one of the largest members in the Palletways network, John T Evans manages over 250 incoming pallets a day and delivers 150 outgoing pallets for over 50 customers in Bristol and the surrounding areas. Through the Palletways network, the company offers its customers next day and economy distribution services for one to six pallet consignments across the UK & Ireland, as well as to mainland Europe, including the Benelux countries, Denmark, Germany and France.

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Dunne: Royal Mail pricing proposals set to hit rural areas the hardest

Posted by | Jul 12, 2007 | |

Philip Dunne, MP for Ludlow, today criticized Royal Mail’s plans to charge large postal customers higher prices for delivering bulk mail in rural areas.

It has been calculated that 80 pct of households and 90 pct of postcode sectors in the Ludlow constituency are in the area Royal Mail considers the most rural. These areas will attract the biggest surcharges.

Royal Mail’s proposals are to increase prices by over 10.2 pct for bulk mail deliveries in rural areas while prices in urban areas rise by only pct%.

The rural surcharge proposals for large mailings raise damaging implications for rural postal services and rural communities:

– Mail volumes going to rural areas will decrease and the unit costs of deliveries will increase;
– This in turn will put pressure on Royal Mail to reduce services in rural areas in the future;
– Rural post offices involved with mail delivery will see a declining volume of mail handled placing them in even greater jeopardy and;
– Significant additional costs will be placed on rural business and organizations.

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Bulgarian private postal operator T-Post opens first office

Posted by | Jul 12, 2007 | |

T-Post, Bulgaria’s first private postal operator has opened its first customer center half a year after securing a license to provide a universal postal service.

The business launch was slightly delayed because the telecom regulator approved the T-Post price tariffs only a month ago, said Lachezar Kaparashev, board chairman of express delivery company Tip Top Courier which owns the T-Post trademark.

T-Post invested 0.5 mln levs in the new office which opened in Sofia’s Mladost residential district.

Another postal station will open in the capital’s Nadezhda borough within the next two months.

Some 20 rollouts are planned for 2007 with locations in Plovdiv, Blagoevgrad and Sliven.

Kaparashev said the first phase of the company’s development should conclude in late 2008 when it should have a network of offices in 48 population centers.

T-Post handles mail and parcel shipments of up to 2 kg, catalogues and money wires.
The newly minted postal operators like T-Post are allowed to handle mail consignments weighing less than 51 g but are unable to offer prices cheaper than 1.37 levs per letter.

That will happen after the state-owned Bulgarian Posts loses its monopoly in January 2009.

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