Tag: Europe

Parcelforce workers pave the way forward at nature area

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

Work colleagues from Leeds and Wakefield spent their free time paving the way for people to enjoy some of the region’s natural attractions.

Eight workers from Parcelforce Worldwide’s depot in Stourton re-laid a path with limestone chippings at the Engine Fields Nature Area at Yeadon, while 19 helpers from the company’s customer service centre in Wakefield created a garden and seating area at the Phyllis Harvey Horse and Donkey Trust in Weetwood, Leeds.

Their efforts were part of Parcelforce Worldwide’s National Community Team Challenge Day’s activities where more than 250 people from the firm gave up their Saturday to help people in their communities.

Steve Clavering, countryside ranger, said: “Engine Fields is a wonderful wildlife site and we’re very grateful to Parcelforce Worldwide for helping to improve the footpaths so that the local community will be able to enjoy its tranquil atmosphere.” The aim of the community day was to encourage colleagues to work more closely as teams and as most are shift-workers it gave them a rare chance to get together.

Parcelforce Worldwide gave each team GBP500 for costs and preparation.

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Mex continues expansion in Spain

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

Spanish courier company Mex has continued to expand by opening three new branches, two in the northern city of Valladolid and one in Alcobendas, near Madrid.

The operator has opened 17 branches since November last year and now has 29 branches in Madrid and over 200 nationwide, 32 in Barcelona.

Mex has also launched, through Skynet, a European road service for parcels to complement its air operations. Delivery time is two to four days to main destinations out of Madrid and Barcelona.

The carrier employs 1,650 staff, operates over 1,000 vehicles and small aircraft, and had revenues of over EUR 170 million in 2005, 16% up on the previous year.

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Deutsche Post opens DHL innovation center

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post World Net has opened a DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf near Bonn in a bid to develop marketable, innovative products from logistics trends of the future.

The center also forms an umbrella organization for all areas of technical innovation management that the company has been exploring. What Deutsche Post is calling ‘the laboratory of the future’ plays a key role in the group’s strategy to become the world’s most innovative logistics company. Chairman Dr Klaus Zumwinkel stressed this in his address at the opening ceremony: “Today, we are the largest logistics company in the world. But size alone is no measure of success. What counts is our customers’ satisfaction. This is why we will amaze our customers with even newer and more future-oriented products.”The projects at the DHL Innovation Center are being conducted jointly with partners. The innovation partners from the business world include IBM, Intel and SAP. The center also maintains research partnerships with the logistics institutes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston and Zaragoza, and the German Fraunhofer institutes.

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Finland Post becomes Itella

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

As of 1 June 2007, the name of Finland Post Corporation will become Itella Corporation. At the same time, the entire Group will become the Itella Group. The Post’s consumer customers in Finland will not be affected by the change as they will continue to be served under the name “Posti”.

The change of name is based on the fact that, during recent years, the Finland Post has changed from a company conducting only postal services to one offering versatile data and material flow management services.

This change is also required by the internationalisation of the Finland Post Corporation. In addition to Finland, the Group now operates in eight Northern European countries, accounting for 23 per cent of the net turnover. Companies and other organisations account for 95 per cent of the Group’s turnover.

The Finnish consumer will hardly notice the change of name. In the future, post offices, mail carriers, mailboxes, consumer websites and communication and marketing directed at consumers will bear the familiar and trusted name of “Posti”.

Since the beginning of 2007, the Finland Post has used the Itella marketing name in all Group services offered to, and operations directed at, companies and organisations. Finnish consumers will be served under the name “Posti”. The change of the name of the parent company and the entire Group to Itella will also support the brand overhaul that has already taken place.

The names of the company’s subsidiaries will also be standardised during 2007 in all nine countries. Logistics’ subsidiaries will use the name Itella Logistics, and Information Logistics’ subsidiaries will use Itella Information Logistics.

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Italy shows how to make a profit from post offices

Posted by | Mar 27, 2007 | |

Royal Mail could learn something from the humble Italian postie.
Massimo Sarmi, 60, took over Poste Italiane in 2002. Today, he will declare the fifth consecutive year of profits for the company, after more than five decades of losses.
In the first half of last year, the group’s net profits rose by 72.6pc to euro 378m (GBP 257m). By comparison, Royal Mail said last month that its first half profits last year sunk by 86pc to just GBP 22m, although the fall was largely because of a steep rise in the costs of servicing the GBP 6.6bn deficit in its pension fund. Royal Mail has threatened to close half of its 14,000 post offices, which it says are losing it GBP 4m a week. The move would leave many people stranded without a post office for miles.
But while Poste Italiane’s network of post offices is also losing money, it now provides the backbone of a company which has diversified into retail banking, insurance and even selling vacuum cleaners, all of which produce bumper profits for the company.
Consequently, he based his strategy on the fact that he can reach almost every Italian and installed IT systems so that rural post offices could connect to the main office and start happily selling mortgages, bank accounts, and insurance.
Mr Sarmi said Royal Mail should do the same, if it wants to survive.

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