Opel renews contract with Emery Worldwide
Opel Germany has renewed its contract with Emery Worldwide for a further two years to provide logistics and service parts suport in North America.
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New pan-European logistics player ec logistics
Specialist in warehousing, fulfilment and distribution, ec logistics has co-founded a logistics alliance providing an integrated solution for pan-European logistics requirements. 3 other founding members – Dohmen Distribution (Germany), SEUR Integracion Logistica (Spain) & SIL STock Express (France)
Read MoreGlobal Posts Launch Venture Capital Operations
Three of Europe’s largest national postal services are stepping up their venture capital activities as they jostle to retain a leading role in a once plodding old industry. ‘New technologies are creating new business opportunities,’ says Martin Vial, chairman of France’s state-owned postal monopoly, La Poste. ‘If we don’t take part in this business, someone else will.’
Germany’s Deutsche Post AG, privatized last year and listed on the Frankfurt stock market, has already established its own 50 million euro corporate venture capital fund, Deutsche Post Ventures.
And the Netherland’s TPG — formerly known as TNT Post Group — which is also now a publicly traded company, last month committed 100 million euros to a corporate venture fund called LogiSpring, aimed at backing young technology companies in the logistics sector.
Deutsche Post to eliminate around 1,000 managerial posts
The German postal service Deutsche Post plans to
eliminate around 1,000 managerial posts in its courrier division and reduce
the number of regional depots by 40 percent, a spokesman said on Monday
DPWN Delivery Challenged by German Publishers
A group of German companies that publish seven newspapers are planning to set up a company which will compete with Deutsche Post World Net AG’s mail delivery business, WirtschaftsWoche magazine reported, without citing sources, in an extract of its Thursday edition.
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