Tag: TNT

TNT Post accelerates expansion in Germany

Posted by | Oct 10, 2006 | |

TNT Post announced it has been granted approval by the German Cartel authorities to take over Germany’s market leader in mail consolidation, PostCon Deutschland AG. TNT Post also announced it has expanded its own delivery network with another three businesses in the German federal states of Berlin-Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Lower Saxony. This reinforces TNT Post’s position as the number one challenger in the German market for delivering addressed mail. In 2006 TNT Post expects its revenues to increase to EUR 200 million. “TNT Post aims to increase its share of the German addressed mail market to about 10per cent within the next five years,” says TNT Post Germany Managing Director Mario Frusch, “making us the biggest competitor for Deutsche Post AG.”

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Interview – Aramex aims to be world's number 5 express operator

Posted by | Oct 9, 2006 | |

Aramex, the Middle East-based independent express company, aims to grow into the world’s fifth-largest express operator through selective acquisitions and by expanding its partner network, a senior executive told CEP-Research.

Although the “Big Four” – DHL, FedEx, UPS and TNT – were clearly “in the premier league”, Aramex wanted to head the “second division” of regional players, Adrian Horsley, Vice-President Express Services, said on the sidelines of last week’s Asia Pacific Mail & Express 2006 conference in Singapore.

The Jordan-based and Dubai-listed company expects its 2006 revenues to grow to US$330 million from USD232 million in 2005, largely due to acquisitions of smaller freight companies in the Middle East and Europe over the last year, Horsley said. In 2005, it generated about 55% of revenues from international and domestic express transport, and about 33% from freight forwarding. The company, whose key markets are the Middle East and India, has some 260 offices in 45 countries in total.

“Our mission is to be recognized as the fifth-largest global distribution player by 2008. With the Global Distribution Alliance, Aramex has a true global international express distribution system that is 95% managed and controlled by us,” Horsley declared.

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TNT Post to launch major European advertising campaign

Posted by | Oct 6, 2006 | |

TNT Post is launching a major advertising campaign across Europe to increase awareness of its new brand following the re-naming from TPG Post last year. An “orange eye” logo will form the focus of the campaign.

The orange campaign has already been rolled out in the Netherlands, the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and will get underway in Germany by the end of the year, followed by Belgium and Austria. These are the eight countries where TNT Post is active.

The new concept, which will have the orange eye in the centre of all new communications material, signifies that TNT Post sees the world through orange eyes, with the slogan “It’s our business to deliver yours.”

“In a second step, the Orange Eye concept will be used on all internal and external communications material,” explained Sascha Bilen, head of marketing at TNT Post in Germany.

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New post companies are coming, the monopoly of CP weakens

Posted by | Oct 2, 2006 | |

TNT Post (Netherlands), post company, is starting to offer services, which have been ensured by the national post company Ceska posta (Prague, Czech Republic), in the Czech Republic during 4 2006. TNT Post will deliver heavier ordinary parcels and addressed trade notifications in the Czech Republic. TNT Post will focus on lucrative firm customers, which have ensured proceeds of about CEK 8 bil per year to CP so far. DPD, which is owned by the post company Groupe La Poste (France) through GeoPost, is extending its operation in the Czech Republic too. The Czech Republic has cardinal importance for DPD. That is why the firm decided to build a new large-distribution centre in this country. The coming of competitors to the Czech post market is allowed by a new standard, which is decreasing the monopoly of CP gradually. The monopoly should definitively end in 2009, when further firms are able to deliver common letters and parcels up to 50 g.

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Ruling to force sale of TNT shares by Dutch government

Posted by | Oct 2, 2006 | |

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the 11 per cent stake in TNT Group held by the Dutch Government is an obstruction to competition in the market for postal services, which is being liberalised within the EU. The ruling is not a surprise as the EU has adopted a policy stance against State holdings in postal and logistics companies, one which the Netherlands Government supports – in contrast to some other countries in the EU. However, the prospect of both a withdrawal by the Dutch State and a large tranche of stock being available on the market has only increased speculation of a takeover of the remaining parts of TNT Group.

One likely option is that the Dutch State will sell the stock back to TNT itself, with TNT then cancelling the stock. Whether TNT has the desire or ability to support this approach at present is an open question. TNT is already engaged in a programme of stock buyback in order to satisfy shareholders.

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