Tag: Europe

DHL launches Intracity Express service in Moscow

Posted by | May 3, 2007 | |

DHL has launched a new express delivery service called Intracity Express.

This service is for documents and parcels within the Moscow region which covers door-to-door delivery of parcels and documents within Moscow city and around 90 other locations.

Intracity Express is targeted at companies and individuals and can be used in combination with other services.
DHL plans to expand Intracity Express to other big cities across the country, as the demand for express delivery increases in Russia.

“Moscow is one of the largest and most dynamic cities in the world. Therefore we have to keep pace with the customers’needs for high-quality express-delivery services for documents and parcels,” said Mark Jordan, commercial director of DHL Russia.

Customers using the service could reduce their costs by a third through the selection of optimal delivery dates, he added.

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Fortis, AN Post joint venture to extend to over 1,000 post offices in next 12 months

Posted by | May 3, 2007 | |

Belgo-Dutch bancassurance group Fortis NV said its 50-50 Irish financial services joint venture with AN Post, the Irish Post Office, will extend to over 1,000 post offices in the next twelve months.

Postbank started trading at over 250 post offices on May 1.

Fortis said it will have the largest retail banking network in Ireland by the end of next year.

Postbank offers a broad range of financial products and services to the Irish market, including daily banking, savings products, insurance, mortgages and credit cards.

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Deutsche Telekom chairman under pressure to leave

Posted by | May 3, 2007 | |

Klaus Zumwinkel, chairman of Deutsche Telekom is under pressure from other board members to leave his non-executive post when his contract ends in May 2008, a German newspaper said on Thrusday.

Several supervisory board members had questioned whether Zumwinkel, who is also chief executive of mail and logistics group Deutsche Post and non-executive chairman of Deutsche Postbank could devote enough time to Deutsche Telekom, the Financial Times Deutschland said.

Deutsche Telecom faces strikes over plans to move some 50,000 staff into lower-paying service units as it tries to cut costs in the face of hefty fixed-line subscriber losses.

Citing people familiar with the situation, the paper said Zumwinkel wanted to delay any decision on his future at Deutsche Telekom until later in the year.
The paper said that private equity firm Blackstone, which holds a 4.4 percent stake in Deutsche Telekom, had in December pushed for the resignation of Zumwinkel, citing a possible conflict of interest and arguing that Zumwinkel was unable to devote sufficient attention to Deutsche Telekom.

But the German government, which still owns 31 percent of Deutsche Telekom, had rejected the complaint, the paper said.

No one at Deutsche Telekom, which holds its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, was not immediately available for comment. Deutsche Post declined to comment.

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Oesterreichische Post focuses on Niche Markets in Eastern Europe

Posted by | May 3, 2007 | |

Oesterreichische Post AG’s 500 mln eur acquisition and expansion programme will focus on niche markets, private carriers in Eastern Europe and technology providers, according to Chairman Anton Wais.

Wais told the Viennese daily Die Presse that the Austrian postal services company had already earmarked investments of 80 mln eur for expansion in Eastern Europe, up to 150 mln eur for Western Europe and around 120 mln eur for the acquisition of companies with technology expertise.

Wais said that Oesterreichische Post’s acquisitions will continue to focus on niche markets, avoiding direct competition with such parcel logistics giants as DHL and TNT.

Private carriers in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine will be the next targets of the Austrian company’s acquisition strategy, while investments in national postal providers will only be an option at a later stage, according to Wais.

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TNT Express launches new morning delivery in France

Posted by | May 2, 2007 | |

After completing a study of customers’ needs, TNT Express has launched a fourth morning delivery service in France.

The fourth morning delivery service for parcels and documents is scheduled before 10.00.

Alongside this the company also delivers urgent next-day packages before 08.00 and 09.00, as well as before 13.00, but recent studies showed that a following-day service before 10.00 for parcels up to 30kg would be beneficial for professionals daily operations.

This new inititaive will commence at the beginning of June. “It will offer professionals more flexibility with an optimal market coverage across the country,” TNT Express France said in a release.

“This offer is supported by the strength of TNT Express’ infrastructure in France,” the company added, “and the power of its road and air networks.”

TNT Express France last month opened a new 10,000 sqm parcel and document sorting centre and regional HQ north of Paris, which can handle 26,000 packages a day, and now has some 120 sites in France.

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