Tag: Germany

German ministers want to extend Deutsche Post's mail delivery monopoly

Posted by | Jan 30, 2007 | |

Germany’s social welfare minister Franz Muentefering and finance minister Peer Steinbrueck want to extend Deutsche Post AG’s mail delivery monopoly beyond the current Dec 31 2007 deadline, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing unnamed sources.

In a pre-release of an article to appear in tomorrow’s edition, the newspaper wrote that Muentefering is concerned about Deutsche Post’s ability to compete against low-cost competitors that also pay lower wages to their staff.

A spokesman for the minister neither confirmed nor denied the report when contacted by the newspaper.

Sources within the Finance Ministry told the newspaper that Steinbrueck is concerned about Deutsche Post losing its monopoly while rivals in countries such as France and Italy are able to retain theirs.

The newspaper also said debate on the matter within the German government is expected to intensify within the coming weeks.

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GLS achieves strong growth for new European express service

Posted by | Jan 25, 2007 | |

The new European express parcel service of GLS has grown strongly since its launch last October, according to the Royal Mail division, and new customers have been won for 2007.

GLS Germany subsidiary Der Kurier, which operates the express service for its parent company through its own network, said in a statement that volumes have grown tenfold in just ten weeks since the new product was launched in October 2006.

Der Kurier provides a 24-hour express service from Germany to seven continental European countries: Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark and Hungary. The UK was integrated into the express network with the launch of daily flights by newly-created in-house airline GLS Air from Kassel, close to the Der Kurier hub at Neuenstein in central Germany, to Coventry.

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Josef Ackermann to leave Deutsche Bank in 2010

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, plans to leave the bank when his contract ends in 2010.
Ackermann, who turns 59 next month, told Der Spiegel during an interview that he had always planned to end his “active career” by age 62 at the latest. His comments were confirmed to Bloomberg News on Saturday by Klaus Thoma, a spokesman in Frankfurt for the bank. Ackermann said he might go on to work at a university or elsewhere in the public sector.
Deutsche Bank’s supervisory board a year ago extended Ackermann’s contract until 2010. Ackermann, a Swiss executive who became chief in 2002, turned the lender into one of the world’s five biggest trading firms. The bank’s security unit accounts for more than half of the lender’s pretax profit.
The bank is among a group of investors that plans to buy a stake in European Aeronautic Defense & Space, the parent of Airbus. Ackermann told Der Spiegel he wanted to protect key German industries from foreign control. — Kenneth Wong

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Deutsche Post Direkt publishes its Address catalogue

Posted by | Jan 22, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post Direkt publishes around five million German business addresses.
The core element of the catalogue is an index of business addresses that come with precise information on market segments and is sorted by various criteria including business size, workforce, type of premises, turnover, and advertising activities. The catalogue is clearly structured and a convenient aid for any business that needs to select and order address lists.

For targeted communication with various management levels users can also order decision-makers’ names and functions as well as their contact details. Deutsche Post Direkt offers a total of five million individual nationwide business addresses, spread over more than 7,000 sectors and accompanied by almost 100 million selection criteria. Direct marketers lease the business addresses for one year and can use them as often as they wish. This enables them to communicate with prospective customers at various levels either once or several times, all at low cost.

The catalogue also offers detailed information on consumer and lifestyle addresses, list broking, and list management. Additional services such as adjustment, list analysis and list enrichment round off the service.

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Consumer deliveries and international business to drive German CEP market growth

Posted by | Jan 19, 2007 | |

The German courier, express and parcels (CEP) market is likely to grow only moderately in the 4% – 5% range over the next few years. International business will continue to grow well while consumer deliveries will generate the bulk of new volumes in the domestic sector. Those are the key findings of the newly-published “CEP Market Fact Sheet Germany” from CEP-Research. The in-depth report also contains detailed market and competitor figures, profiles of the ten leading operators, and a comparative overview of their products.

Germany reinforced its status as Europe’s largest CEP market with total revenues of just over EUR 9.2 billion in 2005, the latest report by the Hamburg-based market research company revealed. The deferred parcels segment, accounting for over 60% of market revenues, grew faster than the express sector. Confirming the recent trend towards more online-generated parcels business, the B2C/C2C (or “consumer deliveries”) segment has grown to 32% of the market. Domestic business accounted for about 75% of market revenues. “We are now expecting a 4.6% increase for the overall market in 2006, with the B2C/C2C segment generating somewhat higher growth,” commented Robert Thyssen, CEP-Research manager.

In its medium-term forecast, CEP-Research predicted that the German market will grow moderately by 4.4% a year to reach total revenues of over EUR 11.4 billion in 2010. International growth will outpace domestic market growth. Key factors driving additional volumes will be the emergence of Central and Eastern Europe as an important regional import and export market, and rising international trade with Asia. While competition in the B2B sector will intensify, domestic market growth is likely to be mostly generated by increasing demand in the B2C and C2C segments.

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