Tag: Germany

France's Mondial Relay joins Hermes' European parcel network

Posted by | Jun 8, 2007 | |

German parcels company, Hermes Logistik, has further strengthened its growing European network by forming a partnership with France’s Mondial Relay for deliveries and collections in France, Germany and Austria.

Home delivery specialist Mondial, like Hermes a subsidiary of Europe’s largest mail-order business, the Otto Group, says it will also be expanding its consumer service through Relai pick-up points in four new countries – Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain – and hopes to have opened over 20,000 such points in the seven countries (including France) by the end of this year.

The expansion will see Mondial’s parcels volumes grow by about 20% in two years from the 34 million handled in 2006, the company said in a release.

According to an article in the Handelsblatt newspaper this week, Otto is working towards a single brand European B2C parcels network led by Hermes, with the aim of boosting the German subsidiary’s turnover to between EUR 1.5 billion and 1.8 billion from the current EUR 1 billion.

The network is designed to cash in on the Internet home delivery boom in major markets such as Germany, France and the UK. Parcelnet, the UK home delivery company owned by the Otto Group, announced two months ago that it also was expanding by buying the Redcats courier network in the UK.

Hermes, which grew by 11.5% in 2006, is moving into the Austrian market this summer. It now has 13,500 distribution points in Germany and a further 1,200 lined up for Austria.

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Hermes Logistik – Mondial Relay partnership

Posted by | Jun 8, 2007 | |

German parcels company, Hermes Logistik, has further strengthened its growing European network by forming a partnership with France’s Mondial Relay for deliveries and collections in France, Germany and Austria.

Home delivery specialist Mondial says it will also be expanding its consumer service through Relai pick-up points in four new countries – Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain – and hopes to have opened over 20,000 such points in the seven countries (including France) by the end of this year.

The expansion will see Mondial’s parcels volumes grow by about 20% in two years from the 34 million handled in 2006, the company said in a release.

The network is designed to cash in on the Internet home delivery boom in major markets such as Germany, France and the UK. Parcelnet, the UK home delivery company owned by the Otto Group, announced two months ago that it also was expanding by buying the Redcats courier network in the UK.

Hermes, which grew by 11.5% in 2006, is moving into the Austrian market this summer. It now has 13,500 distribution points in Germany and a further 1,200 lined up for Austria.

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PIN wants to have as many German mail drop-off points as Deutsche Post next year

Posted by | Jun 8, 2007 | |

PIN AG chief executive Guenter Thiel told Euro am Sonntag magazine that his company wants to have as many German mail drop-off points as rival Deutsche Post AG by mid-2008. ‘Our goal is to have a branch network that is at least as large as Deutsche Post’s by the middle of 2008,’ Thiel told the weekly in an advance copy of an interview scheduled to appear in this week’s edition. At present, PIN has 500 branches, while Deutsche Post has about 12,000. PIN achieved sales of 200 mln eur last year. This year it expects sales to reach 350 mln eur. Thiel said the group could offer air mail delivery services once annual sales exceed 1.0 bln eur. ‘If we have achieved sales of 1.0 bln eur by 2009, then I can imagine that we could also transport deliveries by air,’ Thiel said. PIN is owned by Axel Springer AG, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitungsverlag GmbH & Co, Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co and Rosalia AG.

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Germany: Postal Directive makes good progress

Posted by | Jun 7, 2007 | |

Concerning the results of today’s talks on the proposed amended Postal Directive by the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council in Luxembourg, Michael Glos, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology said: “Clear progress is discernable on the path towards the liberalisation of the European postal services. No Member Statequestions liberalisation as such. The train is moving towards liberalisation. However, the Member States have different ideas about how fast it should move.”

It will also still be necessary to clarify how the costs of universal service provision are to be calculated and the financing instruments managed.

Federal Minister Glos reported to the Ministers competent for the postal sector on the consensus reached under the German Presidency of the European Council on a large number of points of the Commission’s draft for amendments to the Postal Directive.

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Michael Glos says Germany will stick to plans to end Deutsche Post mail monopoly

Posted by | Jun 7, 2007 | |

German economy minister Michael Glos said he wants to adhere to ending the virtual monopoly Deutsche Post AG holds over mail delivery in 2008.

He also plans to discuss the dispute, between several EU member states over Europe-wide postal market liberalisation, at the upcoming EU summit in late June.

Opening the domestic mail delivery markets is in the interest of all EU member states, Glos said.

Deutsche Post is scheduled to lose its mail delivery monopoly for letters weighing up to 50 grams at the end of this year, with the EU seeking a continent-wide liberalisation of the market in 2009.

However, several European countries have not yet made any significant moves to liberalise their domestic postal services.

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