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TNT and union to aim to protect working conditions on German postal market
TNT Post, the Dutch postal service provider, which is also present on the German market, has announced that it plans to collaborate with the services sector union Ver.di to prevent the end of the mail monopoly for German postal operator Deutsche Post from leading simply to a cost war.
TNT Post and the union plan to press for working conditions to be subject to minimum standards.
Read MoreDeutsche Post launch 2007 Mailing Competition
Deutsche Post and the Siegfried Vögele Institute will again award German advertising agencies for their outstanding creative performances in dialogue marketing with the “2007 Mailing Competition” (Mailing-Wettbewerb 2007). There are five categories in which the agencies can submit their most successful mailings from their 2006 portfolios until 2 March 2007.
As well as the categories “Standard Format”, “Open Format”, “Partially Addressed Mailings” and “Self-Advertising”, the category “Political Communication” has become increasingly important for effective dialogue with citizens. Governmental and non-governmental institutions can submit contributions to the “Political Communication” category.
The Mailing Competition has been a highly approved award throughout Germany for many years. In 2006 nearly 400 agencies participated submitting over 600 to win the Dialogue Award. In a preliminary round regional juries award a prize to up to three winners per category. These participate in the national finals with a renowned and expert jury, which will take place at the Siegfried Vögele Institute in Königstein/Taunus near Frankfurt. The criteria for evaluating entries are design and strategy; creative idea and its implementation; customized approach and campaign effectiveness.
Read MoreFonseca appointed COO for TNT Western European Business Unit
TNT Express has appointed Mark Fonseca as Chief Operating officer for it’s new Western European Business unit.
Fonseca has been with the company for almost 20 years in numerous positions and will take up the role with immediate effect. Foncseca will report to Chief Executive Donald Pilz and will handle activities in Germany, Benelux, France and Italy. The ‘Western European Business Unit’ is one of six new international business units strategically located worldwide. The other five are situated in UK/Ireland, Americas-Middle East-Africa, China, Australia & New Zealand, and International.
Read MoreWincor Nixdorf reports Deutsche Post deal
Wincor Nixdorf will act as general contractor in equipping up to 20,000 counter positions at the branches of Deutsche Post and Postbank with new IT systems.
The solution package also includes a five-year maintenance agreement. The first branches will be equipped in the third quarter of 2007 and the overall project will be completed by 2008.
As part of the project, at least 125 front-end systems a day will be replaced and loaded before installation with Deutsche Post’s branch software. This is a demanding task: Deutsche Post is the postal services provider with the largest sales revenue in Europe, and its services are delivered to two to three million customers a day in Germany. Ongoing operations thus should be disrupted as little as possible by this refreshment of the IT landscape.
The all-around package of integrated individual components that Wincor Nixdorf offered played a crucial role in Deutsche Post’s decision. One particular factor was the total cost of ownership, i.e. the costs over the entire product lifecycle. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the partner for supplying the personal computers and the configuration is rounded out by peripherals such as printers, monitors, scanners, etc.
As a result of this framework agreement, Wincor Nixdorf is taking on the general contractorship for a Deutsche Post project for the first time.
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