N Brown Group plc, the UK-based direct home shopping company, has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with GE Capital to develop Zendor.com, an e-commerce fulfilment service for home shopping businesses in the UK
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Read MoreLogistics operators see retailer direct delivery and e-commerce opportunity for business development.
Tony Vince discovers how companies are tackling the fulfilment process in e-tailing
The German federal cartel office is ‘very likely’ to ban Deutsche Post AG from acquiring the majority of the express service company Trans-o-flex (Tof). The case, which is expected to be closed by November, will probably also involve a ban on the acquisition of a 24.8% share. Negotiations are taking place with the post and the majority shareholder, Bayerische Landesbank, with the aim of reducing Deutsche Post’s influence to a reasonable minimum and to ensure the operative independence of Tof.”
Read MorePanalpina Fischer emphasised the company’s independence at his annual press conference in Zurich: “Our shareholder [the Ernst Gohner Foundation] is dosely watching potential alliances but regards the recent concentration and acquisition euphoria in logistics as a thing of the past.”
In this context Fischer welcomed the fact that SairLogistics had sold back its 10% stake in Panalpina and 45% share of SwissGlobalCargo back to Goihner and Panalpina (Airtrade, May). “This gives us back our entrepreneurial freedom: we no longer have to consider minority interests.” He added; “When we decided to get out, we did not know where SAirGroup (now Swissair Group) was going”.
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