Tag: Europe

Spring Global Mail enters the market for international press distribution in Germany

Posted by | Feb 21, 2007 | |

Spring Global Mail is entering the market for cross border press distribution. The new product, called Press Service, enables publishers to send products at more favourable prices than the main postal companies in Germany. In addition, the product contains a large range of services for the preparation of consignments.

The German postal market has a new player in the segment of press distribution. Spring Global Mail is entering the German market for press distribution.

Press Service offers two service levels: Premium and Economy. The rates of the Premium service are clearly more affordable than those of the main postal operator in Germany. The price advantage of the Economy service depends on the weight per item. There is no restriction on the minimum amount of items.

Spring Global Mail carries print products which are either already fully prepared by the customer or material that still requires further fulfilment. In this case Spring Global Mail offers a number of additional services, such as polywrapping, inserting into envelopes, addressing and franking. Spring carries only wrapped consignments due to quality reasons. Consignments are collected free of charge by TNT Express and the mail is distributed in the destination countries by Spring Global Mail’s partners.

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TAT Express is new trans-o-flex partner for France and strengthens European network

Posted by | Feb 21, 2007 | |

Trans-o-flex, the express delivery specialists, have gained TAT Express as their new partner for the French market in their European distribution network EURODIS. Beginning this month, TAT Express is delivering all France-bound trans-o-flex shipments. TAT Express puts trans-o-flex into a stronger position in the second-largest logistics market in Europe. In existence for 31 years, the French company employs 1,300 people, has annual sales in the region of EUR 143 million and transports about 14 million shipments. Since 2005 it has ceased to be a subsidiary of La Poste and is owned by a private investor and the management. Klaus J. Heinz, trans-o-flex CEO, on the new partner: “TAT Express is perfectly suited for a partnership with us, as our systems are very similar: high quality, the ability to carry parcels as well as pallets, use of the shipment concept, high competence in IT and the possibility to shift hazardous goods shipments in large quantities safely and reliably.”

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More than 100 post offices to be closed in Hungary

Posted by | Feb 21, 2007 | |

The Hungarian Postal Service (Magyar Posta Zrt.) is planning to close 103 post offices before the end of the year, and sell another 1,000 in 2008, writes fn.hu, based on a report in business daily Napi Gazdaság.
Starting today, 38 existing post offices will be closed, and another 65 will be shuttered on March 1.

Services will be cut where there are currently more post offices operated than specified by law. In Budapest, for example, there are 169 post offices, but only 86 are legally required.

Magyar Posta Assistant CEO László Szivi said that offices will also be closed where the volume of traffic does not justify their existence.

With the retreat of the company, a full liberalization of postal services can be expected by 2009. There are nearly 100 companies in Hungary registered to perform postal services, including several global firms, many of which are believed to be planning a further expansion of their operations once liberalization occurs.

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Mail start-up iq letternet targets 100 million letters in 2007

Posted by | Feb 21, 2007 | |

A new postal operator, iq letternet, aims to become one of the three leading postal operators in Germany competing with Deutsche Post. The privately-owned company is currently setting up a nationwide network of delivery partners and will use UPS for intra-regional linehaul transport.

Based near Düsseldorf, iq letternet plans to despatch 100 million letters this year which would establish it among the three leading postal operators in Germany in terms of volumes. “Each of our private delivery partners will receive more than 10,000 letters a day on average from iq letternet by the end of this year,” said Rainer Pliska, one of the three managing directors of the company.

The six companies that own iq letternet, which include several direct mailing firms, handle about 170 million letters from customers such as the German airline LTU, the Galeria Kaufhof department store chain and allkauf supermarket group.

Volumes are presently delivered mostly by some 60 regional postal delivery firms and the rest by Deutsche Post. Volumes will be gradually transferred to the new delivery network, with about 30 million pieces planned for this year, to ensure that quality levels are maintained.

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Dutch mail firm Sandd doubles profits

Posted by | Feb 20, 2007 | |

Dutch postal services company Sort and Deliver (Sandd) saw revenues rise 36% to EUR 68 million last year, from EUR 50 million in 2005.

Operating profit doubled to EUR 5 million, from EUR 2.5 million, reinforcing the company’s position as No.2 to TNT Post in the Netherlands.

Sandd delivered more than 320 million items in 2006, boosting its share of the Dutch market to 12% from 8%.

The company forecasts further growth this year, delivering 430 million items (35% more than in 2006), improving market share to 16% and revenues to around EUR 85 million (+25%).

Sandd currently has 80 distribution centres, employs 10,500 delivery workers and claims to have 1,500 customers.

“One of our objectives for 2006 was to reinforce our position with publishers, more than 40% of whom are our customers, and we have contracts with nearly all Dutch banks as a preferred supplier alongside TNT,” said Sandd CEO Bart Stomphorst.

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