Tag: Spain

Correos promotes social causes through solidarity and awareness (SPA)

Posted by | May 22, 2008 | |

CORREOS chairman José Damián Santiago Martín and Spanish Fund-raising Association (AEF) chairwoman Marta Cardona Patau have signed a collaboration agreement for its social and charity work project. The event took place at the postal company’s Automated Processing Centre in Madrid.

This year, CORREOS will contribute EUR 260,000 to this NGO association and professionals in the sector to enable them to carry out their philanthropic and fund-raising work in Spain. It also aims to help them disseminate good marketing and communication practices applied to management and fund raising for humanitarian causes, while also providing education and making society aware of general interest humanitarian causes.

CORREOS will donate EUR 245,400 to the AEF for activities that promote the collaboration and solidarity of Spanish citizens with NGOs, especially in the association’s special areas: education, human rights, health, social well-being, environment, development co-operation, research, leisure and culture. It will also provide a further EUR 14,600 to finance the AEF’s website.

The commitment to set up a Monitoring Committee figures in the agreement, made up jointly by representatives from both organisations to supervise the activities covered by this agreement. Likewise, the AEF will publicise CORREOS’ participation in its social and charity work project

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UPS to lay off staff and restructure in Spain

Posted by | May 22, 2008 | |

UPS is planning to restructure its operations in Spain affecting 230 of the company’s 1,300 employees in the country, with the main outcome expected to be the closure of its Vallecas storage centre in Madrid, according to the Spanish newspaper Expansión.
UPS made a net loss of euro 890,000 on turnover of euro 169 million in Spain last year, the business newspaper wrote.

The restructuring aims at bringing UPS’ operations across several sites on to its installations in the district of Coslada in Madrid, which has recently been expanded.

The Vallecas storage center to be closed down has a workforce of around 180. In view of the expected layoffs, UPS Spain offered union representatives negotiations on the issues of early retirement and transfer to the facility in Coslada.

In total, UPS’ Spanish network has 140 customer service centres, 19 distribution centres, five logistics centres and 700 vehicles, according to the newspaper.

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Warsaw is cultural capital with the lowest price tag

Posted by | May 16, 2008 | |

Culture vultures who want to save hundreds of pounds on the cost of an arts and entertainment-packed short break should head for Warsaw. The Polish capital was far and away the cheapest city for a cultural weekend away, according to the new Cost of Culture report conducted by Post Office® Travel Services.¹

Even though sterling buys 22 per cent fewer Polish zloty than a year ago, the GBP 75 price tag – which included visits to Warsaw’s historic art galleries, museums and heritage sites, together with nights at the renowned Polish National Opera, ballet and a symphony concert² – weighed in at less than 25 per cent of the equivalent London cost.

London proved by far the most expensive of the 10 cultural capitals surveyed by the Post Office®. Its itinerary of 10 cultural highlights, which included trips to the Royal Opera House, Buckingham Palace and the Victoria & Albert Museum, costs around GBP 308, despite the offer of free entry to its national museums and galleries.

By contrast, while the sliding pound has made Prague up to 25 per cent more expensive than a year ago, the Czech capital rates as great value for lovers of the arts. It was second only to Warsaw, at just under GBP 104 for a culture-filled trip.

The survey of Europe and North America’s top cultural centres included six eurozone capitals and, as with other price comparison reports by the Post Office®, revealed a huge disparity in costs between these destinations.

The Cost of Culture survey identifies the five best value choices for each of the six cultural categories researched (allowing one entry per city in each category)³ and found that Paris was the only city not to feature. However clued-up culture vultures can cut their costs by visiting Paris on the first Sunday of each month, when galleries are free.4

The Post Office® Cost of Culture survey is available online for holidaymakers to view at postoffice.co.uk/costofculture

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Azkar integrates into its own structure the operator "servicios logísticos internacionales Bisa"

Posted by | May 9, 2008 | |

Azkar has integrated into its structure of branches the operator “Servicios Logísticos Internacionales BISA”, creating a new society called Azkar Bisa International, S.A.

The principal aim is to harness the international traffic by highways, parcels and pallets of both partners with origin and destination within Europe.

Enric Lleida and Josep Giner, managers and owners of the former BISA will remain in the new branch as managers and shareholders of the new company, contributing with their great experience in the international sector.

Azkar Bisa International, S.A. was born with a share capital of 2 million Euros, a structure of professionals and means to total performing from the very first day, with a turnover estimated for 2008 in more than 36 million euros in European terrestrial traffic trades.

This way, AZKAR offers to their customers a powerful international network for the management of imports and exports of goods, from any origin or destination in the world outside Europe, through Azkar Overseas, like in European traffics through Azkar Bisa International, as well as in the Iberian Peninsula and Islands, where the company has 73 facilities between Spain and Portugal, with more than 500,000 m2 built over more than 1 million m2 of land, a human team of 5,000 employees and a fleet of 2,400 trucks.

AZKAR, that registered a net business of 378 million in 2007, can help their clients from the very first origin of the goods until the last mile in the distribution capillary end.

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trans-o-flex puts European network on new footing

Posted by | Apr 29, 2008 | |

trans-o-flex have laid a new foundation for their European distribution network Eurodis. “We have re-launched Eurodis GmbH, the management company of our specialist 21-country network,” explains Klaus J. Heinz, Executive Board Chairman. “Now we are in a position to welcome our key international partners as shareholders with similar rights and obligations and to involve them in the development of the network.” Redur Lozano, the Spanish Eurodis partner, has already taken this up and acquired a 20 pct stake in Eurodis GmbH. At present, trans-o-flex and the Austrian Post each hold 40 pct of the stock, but they are prepared to halve their holdings to take other partners on board.

While other international networks are usually managed and controlled from a single national perspective, Eurodis can become the first truly international alliance thanks to the equitable shareholding structure, according to Heinz. “Our target is to offer Spanish solutions in Spain, English ones in England and French solutions in France.” Equally, the cross-border ownership of shares serves to reinforce the partners’ mutual ties.

In parallel to the changes on the capital side, the role and functions of Eurodis GmbH are growing. Apart from its coordination aspect, it will in future also manage and control the international alliance. It will manage the partners and the financial adjustments between them, known as clearing, and be responsible for international shipment track and trace and the further development of it.

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