Tag: Germany

Summer and soccer. (trends of business enterprises)

Posted by | Jun 15, 2006 | |

Pallet networks have had some good times of late, but garden centre produce and the World Cup will fade and the network business will enter a new phase, says Glyn Jones

Pallet traffic has picked up again of late. In the past three months, for example, Palletline has seen around a 20% year-on-year increase in volume. But I find it hard to conceive of this level of growth continuing in the long term. We are planning for a much lower level of growth for the remainder of this year and ever tougher commercial competition.

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DHL opens European home-shopping hub

Posted by | Jun 8, 2006 | |

DHL on Thursday opened a new center in Greven, Germany, that ultimately will handle all logistics tasks for the Home Shopping Europe teleshopping channel.
Full operations will begin in a few days. Starting in July, the 35-million euro center will handle the complete logistics operations for HSE24. The center will employ 250 and ship up to 40,000 packages per day. The express unit of Deutsche Post World Net said the center stakes a claim in the rapidly growing teleshopping business that depends on short distances and fast deliveries.

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DHL invests in Leipzig/Halle airport

Posted by | Jun 2, 2006 | |

DHL is to increase its activities at Leipzig/Halle airport in eastern Germany. The German company is to increase the number of flights it carries out each day from five to nine and will also fly to new destinations in the UK and the Czech Republic. As of July, DHL will employ more than 240 people at Leipzig/Halle.

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Deutsche Post CEO wants to keep majority in Postbank unit mid-term

Posted by | May 31, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel told journalists last night that he has no plans to relinquish majority control of the company’s Postbank AG unit in the mid-term. ‘That holds for the next few years,’ Zumwinkel said at the press dinner. ‘The financial services unit is part of our core business.’
Zumwinkel added that the company gains additional business by having outlets that offer both postal and banking services. As a result, Postbank’s value has risen sharply in the past six years – from 2.0 bln eur to about 9.0 bln eur today.

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