Philip Alliet, 39, was appointed new Chairman of TNT Innight Management Europe GmbH and the German TNT Innight Innight GmbH & CO. Kg branch.
Mr Alliet’s new tasks include focusing on the niche market night express. Mr Alliet was a former Group Director of Parcels and Express at Belgium’s La Poste.
Read MoreGerman publisher Axel Springer SPRGn.DE is preparing around 600 million euros (USD 873.4 million) in writedowns for its mail-delivery unit PIN Group, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper reported on Monday.
Citing unidentified company sources, the paper reported that Springer plans to close PIN before the end of the year because it lacks some 15 million euros (USD 21.8 million) for expenses such as wages, the paper reported.
Springer did not immediately return two calls from Reuters.
The publisher said last week it is sounding out options for the future of PIN after announcing it plans to cut more than 1,000 jobs in Germany because of a planned minimum wage in Germany for postal delivery workers.
Read MoreBroadVision, Inc., a global provider of e-business solutions, announced today that DPD selected BroadVision(R) CAS(TM) (Commerce Agility Suite(TM)) 8.1 as the web platform and application for global deployment of its new Internet presence www.dpd.com and the new e-commerce applications.
“We have developed DPD from a company serving domestic markets to a real international organization. We’re focusing on expanding the network and offering our customers a homogeneous product portfolio with international products and fully integrated services,” says Dr. Pia-Maria Zecevic, Director Communications of DPD. “BroadVision enables us to create a multi-language site with an integrated system and application architecture. Ease of web content management; reusable components; and reduced maintenance and administrative overhead made the decision easy to go with BroadVision’s solution suite.”
“We are pleased that DPD, a leading European parcel provider, selected our innovative BroadVision Commerce Agility Suite as its web platform,” said Andrea Rubei, General Manager of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), BroadVision, Inc. “BroadVision Commerce Agility Suite is a proven integrated platform for strategic companies that want superior flexibility, scalability and cost-effective components.”
DPD also chose BroadVision Global Services to implement the project.
Read MoreAxel Springer AG’s PIN Group plans to circumvent new minimum wage laws for German postal workers by contracting mail delivery services at publishing houses and regional mail service companies, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing an unnamed executive at PIN’s Luxembourg headquarters.
Newspaper delivery men and part-time mail men at regional mail service companies earn lower wages and are not necessarily subject to the minimum wage agreement, the report said.
PIN yesterday said it is laying of around 880 employees after the German government decided last week to introduce minimum wages of 8-9.80 eur for postal workers, based on a minimum wage agreement concluded by services union ver.di and an employer’s association dominated by mail incumbent Deutsche Post World Net AG.
Read MoreThe liberalisation of the Dutch postal market will not go ahead as planned on 1 January 2008 due to the “lack of a level playing field”, notably caused by the introduction of a minimum wage for postmen in Germany. The delay highlights the difficulties linked to the practical implementation of new EU rules on opening up European postal markets to competition.
The delay, which was announced to members of the Dutch Parliament by Junior Economy Minister Frank Heemskerk on 6 December, came in response to a German government decision last week to introduce a EUR 8- EUR 9.80 per hour minimum wage for postal workers.
In a vote last June, the Dutch Parliament had made full market opening as of 2008 conditional to the existence of a level-playing field in Germany – the main target for market expansion by the Netherlands’ principal mail distributor, TNT.
However, the fear is that the German move to introduce a minimum wage that is 20-30 pct higher than TNT’s current average price per hour will shield the formerly state-owned mail monopoly Deutsche Post from any competition and “endanger the creation of a level playing field” across Europe.
Thus, despite having battled side-by-side with Germany to push through speedier liberalisation of European postal markets, the Dutch government now believes that “the introduction of the postal law from 1 January 2008 would not be prudent,” according to Heemskerk. He did not give another date for full liberalisation, saying things “should become clearer by mid-2008”.
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