Tag: Germany

The International AddressGuide – now published with eastern European countries

Posted by | Oct 7, 2004 | |

The cross-border sourcing of addresses for direct mailing is becoming easier for eastern European countries: the new edition of the International AddressGuide from Swiss Post International now also includes, alongside the existing 15 countries in western Europe, new entries for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. The AddressGuide lists 500 providers from 20 countries and describes what they have to offer, with key figures such as the number of company addresses, decision-makers, private addresses, selection criteria, and the extent of their special address databases. To help users evaluate potential suppliers, the guide provides information such as year of establishment and number of employees. For each country, it also contains an outline of the address market with detailed information on prices, data protection, return rates, address formats and the correct salutations.

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Deutsche Post’s Postbank in talks to buy ING BHF-Bank’s London ops

Posted by | Oct 6, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG’s unit Deutsche Postbank is in talks with ING Group NV’s ING BHF-Bank to buy its London unit, the Handelsblatt reported, citing industry sources.

The newspaper said Postbank has largely concluded due diligence of the 60 employee-strong unit which focuses on real estate and currency and stock trading.

It added that after ING Group reached an agreement in principle last week to sell its entire BHF-Bank unit to Sal. Oppenheim, BHF-Bank now wants to unload assets which Sal. Oppenheim does not want to retain.

BHF-Bank, ING and Postbank all declined to comment on the matter, Handelsblatt said.

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Deutsche Post unit DHL to deepen tie-up with eBay

Posted by | Oct 5, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG’s unit DHL is deepening its tie-up with eBay by launching a pilot project that will allow DHL to pack, store and deliver more products auctioned on the internet.

The pilot project will start by the end of this year, the spokesman said.

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DHL Express launches field test in Deutsche Post retail outlets

Posted by | Oct 4, 2004 | |

The end of October marks the start of a field test for a new DHL Express delivery variant. The target groups are mail recipients rarely at home during the day. With DEPOTSERVICE customers will be able in the future to have their parcels sent to selected Deutsche Post retail outlets instead of to their home address. The recipients are notified via e-mail or SMS once items addressed to them have been received at the retail outlet, and they can then pick up their parcels.

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Deutsche Post/DHL Brand Conversion

Posted by | Oct 4, 2004 | |

Europe’s largest postal service will convert all business operations outside its home market of Germany to the DHL brand, Die Welt reported, without saying where it got the information. The shares climbed 39 cents, or 2.5 percent, to 16.02 euros.

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