Tag: Germany

Publishers to compete with Deutsche Post

Posted by | Sep 10, 2005 | |

Three of Germany’s largest newspaper groups are joining forces to create what they say will become the largest competitor to Deutsche Post once the country’s postal market is fully opened to competition in 2008. Axel Springer, the publisher of the mass-market Bild tabloid, is teaming up with Georg von Holtzbrinck, publisher of the weekly Die Zeit and financial paper Handelsblatt, regional newspaper group WAZ and a private equity group from Luxembourg to set up a letter delivery group. The company, which will be run by Gunter Thiel, an experienced logistics manager, is aiming to increase its sales from an expected Euros 100m (Dollars 124m) in 2006 to Euros 1bn in 2010 by eating up market share of the former monopoly. It is the second group in a week to say it would enter the postal delivery market following Otto-Versand of Hamburg. Others are expected. The combination of three such powerful media groups – with total sales of more than Euros 6bn – highlights the attraction of a liberalised German market and illustrates why Deutsche Post has in recent years tried so hard to expand internationally and into new areas.

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Red Parcel Post to be launched in 2007

Posted by | Sep 9, 2005 | |

Red Parcel Post, the new German parcel forwarder, is due to be launched on the market at the beginning of 2007. The Boes family, which sold its previous company to Denmark’s DFDS group in last year, is a shareholder in the new company. Manfred Boes, who is also president of the German logistics sector association DSLV, warns that, thanks to new sorting and mailing technology, Red Parcel Post will be in a position to offer more favourable prices than rival DHL, a subsidiary of the postal service provider Deutsche Post.

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German Deutsche Post, SAP and Swiss PayNet to set EBPP network

Posted by | Sep 9, 2005 | |

German postal services company Deutsche Post AG, German enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider SAP AG and Swiss electronic billing services company PayNet (Schweiz) AG plan to jointly develop an international electronic payment network based on SAP’s Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) technology, it was reported on September 7, 2005. Deutsche Post, SAP and PayNet goal is to create an exchange of electronic invoices across borders on the basis of a common technology. The cooperation will provide the companies’ customers from different countries with the possibility to make transactions of national and international invoices via a single interface. PayNet will link the companies within Switzerland and Deutsche Post will integrate companies from Germany and from other countries into the network.

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German Hermes to enter mail delivery market 2008

Posted by | Sep 8, 2005 | |

German logistics services provider Hermes Logistik Gruppe, a subsidiary of the local mail order company Otto GmbH, plans to enter the German mail delivery market due to be liberalised in 2008, the company’s CEO, Hanjo Schneider, said.
Hermes will charge between 10 pct and 15 pct below the tariffs of current monopoly Deutsche Post, Schneider added. As from January 1, 2008, the Hamburg-based company will offer, through mail delivery firm Europost which it co-owns, a nationwide mail delivery network with own mailboxes at its 11,000 outlets. Currently, Hermes (www.hermes-logistik-gruppe.de) competes with Deutsche Post on the market for package deliveries for private clients. The company plans to triple its share on the private clients market to 15 pct by the end of 2005, Schneider said.

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European post offices speed towards privatisation

Posted by | Sep 8, 2005 | |

The privatisation of postal services, focus of a watershed election in Japan over economic and social reform, is well underway in Europe under the twin pressures of competition and financing. Many of the objections being raised in Japan have already been aired in Europe, albeit with less dramatic effects.
Opposition, sometimes virulent, continues in some areas as a trend towards the introduction of private finance into what used to be an almost entirely publicly owned and run sector gathers pace.

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