Tag: New Zealand

New Zealand joint venture launches new brand

Posted by | Jun 3, 2005 | |

One of the biggest rebranding exercises undertaken in the transport sector is under way to coincide with the Lions rugby tour.

Express Couriers, the joint venture formed between Deutsche Post-owned DHL and New Zealand Post’s courier business, is adopting the DHL yellow but keeping the CourierPost, Pace and Contract Logistics brands. The Skyroad Express courier brand is being rolled into the CourierPost brand.

The rebranding involves ordering 2500 polo shirts, 900 shorts, 900 vests, 900 polar fleeces and 900 track pants and painting 750 vans and 40 trucks.

Courier Express chief executive Jim Quinn did not say how much the bill b was, but he said the rebranding was always contemplated when the joint venture was set up, and its execution deliberately coincided with the Lions tour.

DHL’s profile is raised during the tour as it is a sponsor.

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New Zealand Datamail goes postal

Posted by | May 27, 2005 | |

New Zealand Post subsidiary Datamail is broadening its operations in Australia by partnering with Connxion, an Australian document producer. David Allen, general manager of Datamail’s document solutions group, says the partnership allows Australian companies to print and lodge business documents in the New Zealand postal system. He says the company has been working with Connxion for some time and is now ready to go live with DHL. “DHL’s central hub is in Sydney and all its billing for New Zealand customers was done from Australia at significant cost.”

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NZ Post gives Kiwibank boost

Posted by | May 3, 2005 | |

Kiwibank received another $15 million from parent New Zealand Post during the first quarter, meaning the three-year-old Government-owned bank has now received $138 million from the taxpayer. The $15 million figure is in Kiwibank’s latest quarterly general disclosure statement compiled for the Reserve Bank along with a $2.42 million post-tax profit in the three months to March 31. The additional funding will be used to pay for ongoing growth including a push into the small and medium-sized business banking market.

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Moving fast in the New Zealand courier business

Posted by | Apr 11, 2005 | |

Mark Thompson, chief executive of Express Couriers, is not going to disclose how much New Zealand’s biggest courier business makes, even if it is part state-owned.

The courier companies built up by NZ Post “courageously” disclosed much information about parcel movements to customers, he said. But he was not about to telegraph sales and profits to rivals including Freightways, Peter Baker Transport, Toll Priority and a host of small round-town couriers.

He did say, however, that Express Couriers was probably more than a couple of points ahead of Freightways in market share.

Freightways estimated it had 39 per cent of the nation’s express package market when it floated on the stock exchange, and that it and NZ Post together had 85 per cent. Freightways has since estimated that both have slightly more than 40 per cent, the state-owned operator being a couple of points ahead.

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John Allen – Licking New Zealand Post into shape

Posted by | Apr 5, 2005 | |

New Zealand’s top postman, John Allen, is an enthusiast. A compulsive optimist. Last month he was out there again, all smiles and singing the praises of his “great enterprise” New Zealand Post.

That he was happy was understandable. Despite a continuing drop in his core business of delivering letters, the State Owned Enterprise had delivered yet another increase in net profits, up from NZD21 million in 2001 to NZD36.5 million last year and NZD40.4 million in the first six months of this year.
Allen’s succession to the chief executive’s chair at NZ Post in 2003 may have been ordained, but it wasn’t without incident. Remember Post’s international consultancy Transend and ACT MP Rodney Hide’s hounding from office of board chairman Ross Armstrong for what Hide called perk abuse? Tainted by association, it took the gloss off an otherwise polished performance at the top by Allen’s predecessor Elmar Toime.

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