Tag: Germany

Personnel changes on the Managing Board of HUGO BOSS

Posted by | Mar 5, 2008 | |

The Supervisory Board of HUGO BOSS AG and Dr. Werner Lackas who has been the Managing Board member responsible for Purchasing, Production, and Logistics since October 1, 1997, have agreed that Dr. Lackas will leave the Managing Board of the Company as of today’s date. Dr. Lackas will be leaving on excellent terms in a move supported by all concerned. The Supervisory and Managing Boards of HUGO BOSS AG wish to thank Dr. Lackas for his many years of successful service for the Company.

Hans Fluri has now been appointed Managing Board member responsible for Purchasing, Production, and Logistics. Mr. Fluri will take up his post as Chief Operating Officer (COO) effective immediately.

Hans Fluri can look back on three decades of international management experience. Until the end of February 2008, he was CEO of Deutscher Paket Dienst (DPD) and DPD GeoPost Deutschland as well as a member of the Group Management Board of the French parent company, GeoPost S.A. Mr. Fluri has an extensive background in the brand name and consumer goods areas. He led Philip Morris Deutschland to market leadership as a member of the Management Board of the consumer goods group. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Fluri was president of Philip Morris Eastern Europe, where he was in charge of establishing and developing the business in the former Soviet block. After this, he successfully headed up Philip Morris’ European business as president for four years, during which time he was also responsible for the global duty free business. All together, Mr. Fluri worked at Philip Morris for 24 years.

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Hermes introduces international parcel size XS

Posted by | Mar 4, 2008 | |

German parcels operator Hermes Logistik has launched a new parcel category XS for parcels sent from Germany to European countries, except for Romania, Bulgaria and Greece.

With the launch of the new XS parcel, Hermes completes its international parcel categories Small, Medium and Large.

The XS parcel weighs up to 25 kg with a size no longer than 30 cm, calculated with the longest and the shortest side of the parcel.

The price for the XS parcel is EUR 8.50 for customers filling in the packing slip online, and EUR 9.50 for those completing the slip manually at the Hermes parcel shop. The prices include liability up to EUR 500.

For now, the XS parcel has been introduced to Germany only and is being tested within a period of three months.

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PIN Group in talks with 3 possible buyers for whole company

Posted by | Mar 4, 2008 | |

German postal service provider PIN Group is in talks with three possible buyers for the company, which include regional competitors as well as newspaper publishers, chief executive Horst Piepenburg said.

None of the interested parties are foreign financial investors, he said, according to Die Welt newspaper.

The group ran into trouble when Axel Springer AG in December stopped funding PIN after the German government decided to introduce minimum wages to the postal industry. Now 39 of its 91 units have filed for insolvency.

About one quarter of the company’s 11,400 workers have already lost their jobs, while another 500 jobs were saved through the sale of three regional units.

While management is in talks to sell the rest of the company as a whole, it is also pursuing a possible sale of regional or local segments and it in talks with numerous parties including newspaper publishers.

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Deutsche Post World Net strengthens logistics business (GER)

Posted by | Mar 4, 2008 | |

In its meeting on March 4, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post AG decided on changes to the Executive Management Board. Effective immediately, Deutsche Post World Net will separate the Logistics corporate division into two operating units. Supply Chain will be led by Bruce Edwards (52), while Hermann Ude (46) will run the Global Forwarding and Freight business unit.

Both new business units have annual revenues exceeding 13 billion euros. As the Group’s biggest division both in terms of revenue and number of employees, Logistics from now on will be represented by two members on the Executive Board. Before being named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post World Net, Frank Appel (46) was in charge of the Logistics corporate division.

The decision to split Logistics into two business units is a structural move without any immediate costs or gains associated with it and there will be no changes to the Group’s reporting structures for the time being. Supply Chain and Corporate Information Solutions has annual proforma revenue of more than 13 billion euros and focuses on long-term, complex outsourcing agreements with large customers. Global Forwarding and Freight is an asset-light business with annual.

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GO! expands to Denmark

Posted by | Mar 3, 2008 | |

The German express operator GO! Express & Logistics has established a new partnership with the Danish express company 3D, De Daglige Distributorer, in order to expand its international network.

GO! Denmark was founded by 3D at the beginning of 2008 with two new stations in Western and Eastern Denmark. The new premium partner offers an area-wide express service for time-definite overnight shipments.

Up to 25,000 express shipments per month are currently being transported within Denmark. Another 2,200 shipments are sent from Germany to Denmark every month.

Philip Schreiber, Area Manager International at GO! Overnight Service Germany, said: “With our new partner in Denmark we are further approaching our objective of becoming quality leader in the CEP segment in Europe. With 3D we have found our ideal premium partner.”

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