Tag: La Poste

DPD Masterlink introduces international service between Poland and Ireland

Posted by | Apr 23, 2007 | |

DPD Masterlink introduced a new international service between Poland and Ireland. The company offers 4-5 days time delivery at the net price of 99 PLN.

As a result of the migration of 100 to nearly 250 thousand Poles to Ireland, new market needs arose. These are being fulfilled by the creation of a friendly and cozy, local atmosphere. In Ireland you can not only read a Polish paper, but also buy a traditional Polish sausage and pickles.

Most Poles migrated from districts such as: podkarpacki, lubelski, opolski and warminsko-mazurski. People from these regions showed the biggest interest in the possibilities of sending parcels to their families in Ireland. DPD Masterlink in cooperation with the partner company Interlink in Ireland (also a member of the GeoPost Group), introduced a new, cheap international service. Parcels weighing up to 31,5 kilos can be sent to Ireland for only 99 PLN.

Delivery occurs within 4-5 days. The popularity of the new service as well as the number of sent parcels is growing.

Parcels can be sent to Ireland from all 50 DPD Masterlink depots in Poland.

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New classification of DPD Lietuva products titles

Posted by | Apr 19, 2007 | |

Parcels courier service leader in Lithuania company “DPD Lietuva” has finished it’s second re-branding stage – in all Baltic countries it has developed new differentiation of DPD services before named by single name “Bizpak”.

“We have separated four products titles for Baltic region, two international product titles and nine additional services titles. With the unification of services and products titles in all three DPD companies in Baltic countries the “Bizpak” re-branding history is symbolically ending and we expect to strengthen our positions even more in Baltic countries region and entire Europe”, – said “DPD Lietuva” Director of Sales and Marketing for Baltic States Gintaras Bingelis.

According to him, unified services and products titles will enhance customers’ reliance and facilitate their decision and perception which service will be the most convenient to the moment.

“Services and their possibilities for business will remain the same after changing the brand and names of these services. We will continue to seek that every customer would get reliable, high quality logistics solution that meets customers requirements and we will be investing into the new products development”, – said Gintaras Bingelis, “DPD Lietuva” the Director of Sales and Marketing for Baltic States.

“DPD Lietuva” leadership made the decision to change their brand in June 2006 and planes to complete re-branding process from Bizpak to DPD till 2008.

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GeoPost announces results for 2006

Posted by | Apr 18, 2007 | |

GeoPost achieved a turnover of euro 2.969 billion in 2006. In comparison with 2005, the Group saw an increase of 16%. In the last 5 year GeoPost almost doubled its turnover.

With 500 million parcels in 2006, GeoPost holds second position in terms of volume and third place in terms of turnover in the European express market.

The dynamic growth has been achieved by the group’s aggressive development strategy. This strategy has seen GeoPost acquire Exapaq in France, Interattica in Greece, and a new franchise agreement has been signed with SEUR in Spain. In addition to these external acquisitions the Group has achieved strong organic growth.

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French plan green postal service

Posted by | Apr 17, 2007 | |

The French postal service, La Poste, plans to order 10,000 electric delivery vehicles, which it says are far more economical than normal cars or vans.
The state-run service is inviting tenders from European manufacturers for the first batch of 500.

“There has never been such a big order [for the vehicles] in the world,” said French Industry Minister Francois Loos, quoted by the AFP news agency.

La Poste wants to reduce its 70m-euro (GBP 48m; USD 95m) annual fuel bill.

La Poste has been testing eight French electric vehicles since 2005, made by SVE – a firm owned by the defence group Dassault and vehicle manufacturer Heuliez.

“According to our tests, it is six times cheaper to run an electric vehicle than a diesel vehicle,” said La Poste chairman Jean-Paul Bailly.

La Poste believes the change will also cut emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) by four tonnes per vehicle annually.

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La Poste beats financial targets

Posted by | Apr 16, 2007 | |

La Poste has posted net profit of 789m euros for 2006, up 42 per cent year-on-year, which was well beyond its target.

Operating profit for the same period came in at 949m euros, up 22 per cent, on turnover of 20.1bn, up 4.3 per cent. Jean-Paul Bailly, the group’s CEO, said that the results were better than expected overall and that an improvement had been seen across all sectors of activity. He also pointed out that the group had registered consistent growth since 2002.

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