Tag: Italy

DHL USA chosen as exclusive carrier for Chico's online and catalog business

Posted by | Oct 22, 2007 | |

DHL announced today it is has been chosen by fashion apparel retailer Chico’s FAS, Inc. as its direct-to-consumer delivery service provider. DHL will serve Chico’s online and catalog sales business, providing US domestic and international express services to support its retail distribution network.

Chico’s operates 965 women’s specialty stores, including stores in 48 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico operating under the Chico’s, White House | Black Market and Soma Intimates names.

Through the new agreement Chico’s and its related brands will use DHL@home business-to-residential service to deliver directly to their consumers nationwide. All shipments ordered by customers through online, catalog, or 800 number sales will be fulfilled at Chico’s Distribution Center in Winder, Ga., and transported to DHL locations nationwide – with the U.S. Postal Service handling the final mile delivery as part of the DHL@home service offering.

DHL will also be the express delivery provider for Chico’s international customers – many of whom are Americans living abroad who want access to the unique styles offered by Chico’s, White House | Black Market and Soma Intimates. These customers will now have access to Chico’s fashions wherever they live, in over 225 countries and territories served by DHL.

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Hermes expands to Italy

Posted by | Oct 16, 2007 | |

Hermes Logistics Group has acquired a stake in Italian parcels and logistics company Swiss Post Porta a Porta, having taken over 30 pct of the share capital from majority shareholder Swiss Post International (SPI) to further expand its international presence and strengthen its position as Europe’s key logistics service provider in delivery to private households.

In return, SPI which does not wish to invest in domestic networks, is able to focus on the cross-border letter market, and will also become the preferred sales partner of HLG for international B2C services in European markets.

With a central hub in Milan and 63 depots throughout the country run by sub-contractors, one of Porta a Porta’s specialist areas is the nationwide distribution of items to both business and private customers. In 2006, the company delivered some 3.5 items to private customers, giving it a 7 pct share of the market. “No other private service provider in Italy has such a well-established B2C network as Porta a Porta,” says Jean-Pierre Streich Head of Swiss Post International.

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Saatchi & Saatchi Italy catches the Italian Post

Posted by | Oct 16, 2007 | |

Saatchi & Saatchi Italy has won the budget for the communication activities of Poste Italiane (Italian Post Office), covering postal services and the post office network.

The agency has been assigned a 3-year contract, following a pitch that involved many of the agency’s divisions, from traditional advertising to online/interactive, direct marketing and shopper marketing.

Fabrizio Caprara, Joint CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi Italy, said, “We are very pleased with this result. First of all because we are happy to have once again the opportunity of working with this client with whom we have had in the past a very fruitful experience. And secondly because it gives great satisfaction to be involved in a project in which close interaction between the agency’s different marketing disciplines will play a fundamental role.”

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Poste Italiane signs air cargo deal with Italian employers

Posted by | Oct 5, 2007 | |

Poste Italiane has signed an agreement with the influential Italian employers’ association Confindustria with the objective of winning more air express business.

Under the deal, the postal operator has guaranteed that its airline subsidiary Mistral Air will provide cargo transportation “at particularly competitive rates” and in accordance with the different types of freight and customer wishes.

Mistral Air currently operates with three B737-300 Quick Change aircraft for main routes and two chartered BA 146-200 QT planes for smaller destinations. The airline, which transports shipments of Poste Italiane and its express unit SDA, aims to carry 8,750 tonnes this year.

Poste Italiane chairman Massimo Sarmi added that the deal confirmed the strategic role that the postal group could play in providing logistics services and to support the success of products “Made in Italy” at an international level.

Poste Italiane last year signed an agreement with UPS, under which the US express and parcels giant will transport the post office’s international shipments and use its domestic Italian network for local distribution.

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