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DHL to make Belgade regional center
Belgrade will soon become DHL’s regional center, the company’s representatives say.
The company is panning to make Belgrade the regional center for the Western Balkans in October, DHL Beograd General Manager Darko Babiæ has announced.
Babiæ said that DHL is planning to introduce flights from Belgrade to its distribution center in Leipzig, Germany, which would make the Serbian capital the regional hub.
DHL packages arriving from all around the world shipped to Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and packages from these four countries, will all be delivered via Belgrade.
Read MoreAustrian Post Wants to Invest in Bulgaria
Austrian postal operator ‘Oesterreichische Post’ wants to get into Romanian, Bulgarian and Bosnian market in the coming 15 months, Reuters informed, cited by money.bg.
We want to set up a network in the fragmented South-Eastern European market, company’s Chief Financial Officer Rudolf Jettmar said on Tuesday.
We want to fill in our blank spots in Bosnia, Bulgaria and Romania, Jettmar added.
He also specified that the postal operator is aiming to take over private operators working in parcel delivery or distribution of advertising.
‘Oesterreichische Post’ has spent 210 million EUR on takeovers in the first 3 quarters of 2007. The Austrian Post is already present in Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia.
Osterreichische Post AG was founded on March 3, 1999 as a subsidiary of Post and Telekom Austria. Its core business activities are provision of postal and parcel services as well as handling of financial business in cooperation with BAWAG P.S.K., a partner of many years.
The Austrian Post has a sales network that is unique in Austria. With comprehensive investments in modernization of post offices and the entire logistics, the business will continue to focus on customer needs and consistently move forward on its way from a public agency to a modern service company.
New products and services will not only help ensure national market leadership in future, but shall also pave the way to international activities.
Read MoreAustrian Post acquires City Express d.o.o. in Serbia
By taking over City Express d.o.o. in Belgrade, Austrian Post has entered the Serbian and Montenegrian parcel market and extended its presence in Central and South-Eastern Europe.
City Express, founded in 2002, will distribute over two million domestic shipments in 2007 with a total turnover of about 10 Mio EUR. This is equals 4 Mio door-to-door parcels and roughly for some 50 pct market share. With a headcount of 368 employees and a fleet of 248 vehicles, City Express is operating 14 sites in Serbia as well as a branch in the Republic of Montenegro.
„The takeover of City Express is following our expansion strategy in South-Eastern Europe. This step will unlock significant potentials for us, accessing the growth markets in Serbia and Montenegro”, says Anton Wais, CEO of Austrian Post.
After acquisition of City Express Austrian Post is represented on the market of parcels with subsidiaries in the following Eastern- and South-Eastern European Countries:
Slowakia: Slovak Parcel Service, and In Time (2002)
Croatia: Overseas (2003)
Hungary: Merland Express und Road Parcel (2007)
Serbia: City Express (2007)
Post Shop – Shop in a Post Office in Serbia
Postal and telecommunications products, office and school material and many other articles, you can find all that at one place – in our Post Shop!
This unique shop which offers to its customers various attractive and high-quality products at affordable prices was opened on June 7, 2006, within the Post Office Belgrade 1 (Post Office in Takovska Street).
Due to the necessity of change in the manner of sales, enhancing of the Post office sales assortment, customers needs, experiences of postal administrations in abroad, as well as the increase in revenues and market share, we have faced with the demand for opening of the specialized shop which would include in its assortment the entire range of the postal products, all in one place within a Post Office.
By introducing of this new sales concept we managed to find the right way to satisfy the customers’ needs related to the more comfortable service in the Post Office and realize more intimate and permanent contact with the consumers, with the goal of achieving a higher level of the quality of service.
Post Shop offers a wide range of products and services, such as: postal stamps, packaging material, insured postal items and forms, postcards and greeting cards, decorative envelopes and letters, home mailboxes, fixed line and mobile telephones, pre-paid cards and numbers for mobile networks, Hallo cards, address books and various office materials, photo cameras, calculators, computer equipment, various souvenirs, city maps, educational and tourism CDs, as well as the payment of virtual vouchers, Internet coupons and copying services.
After we have opened the first Post Shop, it is our intention to implement the same concept in each big city and tourism center in the country. In that way we will create a network of uniform shops of recognizable image which will represent the future of retail sale in Serbian Post.
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