Tag: Japan

DHL Japan’s nationwide fleet of 750 vehicles supports Urawa Reds

Posted by | Dec 4, 2007 | |

DHL is supporting the Urawa Red Diamonds (Urawa Reds), a J.League soccer club with which it has a top partnership agreement, in its challenge to compete on the global level.
Winners of this year’s Asian Football Confederation Champions’ League (ACL), Urawa Reds this month will compete in the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2007. In a national campaign to support Japan’s first Asian club champion, DHL will display stickers bearing the team slogan, “All Come Together! – Power, Passion, and Pride” on its fleet of 750 vehicles for about 10 days from 3 December. The activities in support of Urawa Reds will be held nationwide in DHL’s 60 locations throughout Japan.

This year, as part of the partnership agreement, Urawa Reds has displayed the DHL logo on the players’ jerseys in competitions such as the Bull’s Cup in Austria; the ACL; and in the A3 Champions’ Cup. The top partnership agreement between DHL and Urawa Reds arose because as leaders in their respective fields, DHL and the Reds share the common values of “speed,” “teamwork,” and “cross-border challenge.” Incidentally, DHL, like Urawa Reds, has long employed red as one of its corporate colors.

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Japan Post Service Ups Profit Expectations Amid Criticism

Posted by | Nov 23, 2007 | |

Japan Post Service Co., the mail, parcels and express division of the newly-formed Japan Post Group, has upgraded its profits expectations for the second half of the year ending March 2008.

But its international expansion drive is facing criticism from multinational competitors. Japan Post now expects to increase H2 net profits by 8pct. This is 79.2 billion yen, which is 30.2 billion more than it forecast earlier this year, the Nikkei Weekly newspaper reported. The improvement is due to a smaller-than-expected contraction in mail volume and a reduced tax burden. Its revenues are expected to slip slightly to 1.06 trillion yen.

Over the last year, Japan Post has embarked on an expansion of its parcel and express activities. In October, it announced it would merge its domestic parcel service with that of Nippon Express in October 2008 to form a major competitor to the two market leaders, Yamato Transport and Sagawa Express. It has launched a cargo airline in cooperation with ANA, and sealed an international cooperation partnership with China Post.

But the Nikkei Weekly recently reported that foreign courier companies have complained about preferential treatment for Japan Post‘s EMS service. They claim it is unfair for the new Japan Post to enjoy the benefits of faster customs clearance and other preferential public sector treatment for its lower-priced EMS service which is increasingly competing with their express services that operate on a fully commercial basis.

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Regulatory experts from around the world meet at IPC

Posted by | Nov 19, 2007 | |

Twenty-seven regulatory experts from IPC member postal operators, Japan Post and postal operators in Eastern Europe participated in a regulatory experts’ meeting on last week in Brussels. Beginning in 2008, the expert group will meet in Senior Executive Forums which will provide a platform for exchange of views at macro level on regulatory topics.

The meeting provided an opportunity for participants to discuss privatisation and liberalisation. A high point was a presentation on privatisation in Japan by guest speaker Masahiko Metoki, general manager for international strategy at Japan Post; he was assisted by senior manager Shoji Maruyama. Wolfgang Pickavé, director of regulation strategy at Deutsche Post, and Victoria Kickinger, secretary general at Österreichische Post, provided insight into the European experience of privatisation. Discussion on liberalisation kicked off with a presentation from Leen van de Weert, senior advisor, pubic affairs at TNT Post, who outlined legislative progress towards full opening of the Dutch market.

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Japan Post Network chooses Aflac as exclusive provider of cancer insurance

Posted by | Nov 19, 2007 | |

Japan Post Network Co. has chosen Aflac Japan, a unit of U.S.-based supplemental insurer Aflac Inc., as the exclusive provider of cancer insurance for distribution through its roughly 24,000 post offices nationwide.

“Given the extensive number of post office locations, we anticipate that over-the-counter sales will play an important role in the future,” said Laura Kane, a spokeswoman for Aflac Inc. However, the company isn’t ready at this point to share expectations on future revenue or earnings from the deal, she said.

Japan Post Network is one of four separate postal entities that started operating in October as a part of the postal privatization process established under laws enacted in 2005, the Columbus, Ga.-based Aflac said.

Japan is Aflac Inc.’s biggest market, where it derives about 75% of its total revenue. The company says it’s the No. 1 insurance company in terms of individual insurance policies in force in Japan. Kane said cancer is the No. 1 killer in Japan and Aflac is the biggest seller of cancer insurance in that country.

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DHL commissioned research reveals new export landscape for ASEAN and Asia

Posted by | Nov 16, 2007 | |

DHL revealed today the findings of a study commissioned to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on regional trade flows. The report entitled Trading up: A New Export Landscape for ASEAN and Asia, examines the movement of goods across borders in Asia, with ASEAN as the starting point. Findings show that despite goals on ASEAN integration, the new export landscape in Asia reveals that ASEAN is at a cross roads between pursuing deeper integration with fellow ASEAN member countries, or falling away to develop individual bilateral trading relationships with China. The share of exports to China from all ASEAN countries in the study except Vietnam has risen sharply while intra-ASEAN trade has shown a declining growth trend.

The release of the study is timed to coincide with the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ASEAN-BIS), which DHL has been a key sponsor for the past 5 years. The study concentrated on the ASEAN bloc’s six largest economies – Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – and analyzed the trade of its closest regional competitors, China, Japan and India. Shifting import and export trends from 2000 to 2007 are analyzed, focusing particularly on the role played by high-value exports as compared with lower-value bulk commodity goods. It is follow-up research from “ASEAN Exports: Today, Tomorrow and the High-value Challenge”, which DHL and EIU jointly released at the 4th ASEAN Business and Investment Summit 2006.

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