BVDA, the German association of publishers of advertising papers, and BDZV, the German newspaper publishers’ association, are reported to have lodged a complaint with the German antitrust authority against Deutsche Post, the German national postal service operator. They are hoping to prevent the postal group from continuing to deliver an advertising journal in a pilot project together with a free TV programme information magazine.
Read MoreLynx Express has added another prestigious name to its expanding portfolio of contracts following its success in clinching a six figure agreement with German high quality white goods manufacturer, Miele.
Lynx secured the contract against stiff competition from about a dozen other carriers. The innovative and value added solutions approach from Lynx placed them ahead of their competitors.
Read MoreDeutsche Post World Net CEO Klaus Zumwinkel likes to point out to visitors that he can see no fewer than three ancient castles from his office atop the company’s ultramodern new headquarters in Bonn. But when it comes to reach and influence, the old German barons had nothing on Zumwinkel.
Other German business titans, such as Ron Sommer of Deutsche Telekom or Henning Schulte-Noelle of insurer Allianz, were ousted after their grand strategies went awry. Zumwinkel is still unassailable after 13 years at the top of Deutsche Post, the German postal service. The company is still majority owned by the government and still delivers the mail, but under Zumwinkel, it also has become a profitable, publicly listed multinational with annual sales of $46 billion and the largest express-delivery business in Europe and Asia. “We want to be the leading logistics company in the world,” declares Zumwinkel, who also sits on the supervisory boards of Deutsche Telekom and Lufthansa, and who counts German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder among his friends.
Read MoreAgainst the opposition of Deutsche Post AG, EP Europost has defended its application to use the brand name TPG Post Deutschand. The Patent and Brands Office in Munich has decided that private postal service providers are alloweed to use the term post in their name.
Read MoreDeutsche Post, the German postal service operator, has indicated that it is not fundamentally opposed to plans by the EU to impose VAT on stamps with the planned deregulation of the EU postal market in 2009. The company has not yet decided whether it will increase prices when VAT is introduced.
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