Deutsche Post wants to become a partner in Bertelsmann’s business of processing advertising mail, in exchange for handling the media giant’s packaging and distribution of compact discs and mobile phones, Wirtschafts Woche (Germany) reports. Whether the partnership will involve taking a stake in the companies or be based on a contract hasn’t been decided yet, the magazine reports. Bertelsmann and Deutsche declined to comment, Wirtschafts adds.
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Read MorePost Danmark, the Danish post office, is holding talks with Deutsche Post, its German counterpart, regarding a collaboration agreement. Jacob Buksti, the Danish transport minister, has confirmed that the two are holding talks and that negotiations may be completed in only a few weeks time. Post Danmark will solve its problems from three weeks ago, when Posten of Sweden dashed Post Danmark’s hope of a Nordic parcel alliance by pulling out of Pan Nordic Logistics, the Scandinavian logistics company owned by the three Scandinavian post offices. Posten entered an alliance with La Poste of France instead.
Read MoreDeutsche Post World Net AG and Thiel Logistik AG [Luxembourg] are in talks for a possible cooperation, Thiel chairman Guether Thiel said in an interview with Monday’s Handelsblatt. Despite the company’s [Thiel’s] current low share price, Thiel does not see the company as a takeover target, but added that independence is, ‘no dogma for us.’ The company is open to a partnership with a ‘small European postal company,’ to help build up its logistics operations, although as yet there are no concrete plans, Thiel said. The company [Thiel} is well-positioned in Austria and Switzerland, and the postal companies in these countries would be possible partners, he said.” (Source: Financial Times)
Read MoreVan Gend & Loos’ new distribution center in the capital of the Netherlands, The Hague, was officially dedicated at the beginning of September this year. The DPWN subsidiary now operates a total of 27 regional depots in the various Benelux states. Other Van Gend & Loos hubs are located in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Roosendaal, Eindhoven, Utrecht, Brussels and Ternat
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