Tag: Germany

DHL goes green with e-billing service

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

DHL is hoping to cut its carbon footprint by offering customers an e-billing service.

DHL plans to eliminate more than a third of the 18 million paper invoices it sends to European customers every year by 2010. The firm will do this by offering customers an e-billing option, whereby users login to an online portal to view and receive information about their invoices. As a result, the courier expects to save the equivalent of 2,400 trees and 600 tonnes of C02 a year.

DHL has already begun using e-billing in Europe, and expects to continue its existing success.
“The success of our e-billing project has already delivered significant environmental savings but this is a drop in the ocean compared to what we intend to achieve in the near future,” said Brian Thumwood, DHL’s E-Billing Manager for Europe.

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Federal Court of Justice grants protection for "Post" brand

Posted by | Oct 29, 2008 | |

The registered trademark “Post” will continue to be protected by law. This follows a ruling by the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in which it upheld an appeal by Deutsche Post against the revoking of its “Post” trademark.
Almost 85 per cent of German consumers associate the term “post” with Deutsche Post.
Competitors of Deutsche Post had filed opposition to registration of the brand and in April 2007 they were successful in this endeavor before the German Federal Patent Court.
The decision by the Federal Court of Justice overturns that ruling.
The term “Post” was registered with the German Federal Patent and Trademark Office in 2003 as a so-called word mark of Deutsche Post. The background to this registration was a report which found that 84.6 per cent of consumers associated the term “Post” with Deutsche Post.
In June of this year the Federal Court of Justice ruled in two specific cases on how protection of the “Post” trademark should be interpreted in practice. They ruled that use of the term “Post” by competitors of Deutsche Post was only admissible in cases where they provided appropriate additional information in their business correspondence or advertising.
It was not, however, admissible to combine the word “Post” with other distinctive elements such as the color yellow or the post horn symbol which would increase the risk of confusion with the Deutsche Post brand.

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Swiss Post: Profit CHF 496 million below 2007 figure

Posted by | Oct 28, 2008 | |

In the first three quarters of 2007, Swiss Post generated Group profit of 496 million Swiss francs. This is CHF 203 million below the year-back figure. The decline is due primarily to higher fuel prices, growth- and inflation-induced additional expenditure and value adjustments on financial investments. Swiss Post expects its full-year result to be down on the previous year.
In the first nine months of 2008, Swiss Post generated Group profit of 496 million francs (2006: 699 million francs). This is CHF 203 million or 29 pct less than in 2007, which was a record year. All product-carrying Group units posted a decline. Growth- and inflation-induced additional expenditure, higher staff costs and value adjustments on financial investments were responsible for the lower profit figure. In addition, cuts in press subsidies and the parallel operation in the “Reengineering Mail” (REMA) project resulted in higher costs. PostFinance had to make writedowns totalling CHF 95 million on its financial investments. CHF 67 million of the writedowns relate to fixed-income investments and the remaining CHF 28 million to equity investments. Thanks to its risk-conscious investment strategy, the loss amounts to only around 0.2 pct of the total investment portfolio (see also PostFinance press release of 22 October).

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Austrian Post dismisses trans-o-flex chief

Posted by | Oct 27, 2008 | |

Austrian Post has dismissed Klaus Heinz, head of its German parcel logistics subsidiary trans-o-flex, but is not planning any change in the company’s business model, according to CEP-Research information.

“Klaus Heinz has been relieved of all his functions”, a trans-o-flex spokeswoman said. She declined to disclose the reason for the decisions but added: “A re-positioning of trans-o-flex is neither intended nor planned.”

Wolfang Weber, head of operations and formerly deputy head of the management board, has taken over as management board spokesman in addition to his existing responsibilities. The other management board members are Thomas Mohorn, head of sales and marketing, and Thomas Doll, responsible for finances.

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Deutsche Post AG supports Postbank strategic initiative

Posted by | Oct 27, 2008 | |

The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post AG has approved that Deutsche Post, as majority shareholder of Deutsche Postbank AG, will participate with up to 100 percent in the bank’s planned capital increase. The Group thus supports the strategic initiative presented by Postbank to further develop its successful strategy and a sustainable improvement of earnings quality.
Deutsche Post has committed to subscribe to the planned rights issue of 54.8 million shares at the subscription price according to its stake of 50 percent plus one share in Postbank. As far as the subscription price does not exceed 18.25 euros, Deutsche Post has also committed to subscribe to all shares that are not taken up by the market at the subscription price. The maximum commitment by Deutsche Post thus would not exceed 1 billion euros, which it would finance out of the Group’s cash flow.
As a result of this measure, Deutsche Post’s stake in Postbank would initially increase to a maximum of 62.52 percent. The September agreement with Deutsche Bank AG, under which it will – upon antitrust and regulatory approvals – acquire a 29.75 percent stake in Postbank from Deutsche Post in the first quarter of 2009, remains in place.

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