Tag: Post & express services
Bloomberg interested in Dow Jones or Washington Post
Michael Bloomberg The former mayor of New York apparently wants to expand his media empire. (Photo: Reuters) Los Angeles / New York According to an unconfirmed report, media entrepreneur Michael…
Booming freight business inspires Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post parcel service The Bonn group expects strong Christmas business. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Bonn-based Dax group had already announced that Deutsche Post DHL would increase its profit forecast…
Delivery service Liefergrün recruits staff from Hermes and Amazon
Dusseldorf The delivery start-up Liefergrün wants to attack established parcel services with a newly formed management. The experienced logistics manager Nils Fischer becomes co-managing director and, as head of the…
Deutsche Post promises higher profits
Deutsche Post parcel center The core business is no longer a growth driver. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Despite its slightly declining parcel business, Deutsche Post intends to revise its earnings forecast…
Deutsche Post promises higher profits
Deutsche Post parcel center The core business is no longer a growth driver. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Despite its slightly declining parcel business, Deutsche Post intends to revise its earnings forecast…
Parcel service DPD expects a drop in shipments
parcel deliverer According to its own statements, DPD Germany generated sales of 2.4 billion euros last year. (Photo: dpa) Aschaffenburg In view of the high inflation and the impending recession,…
Parcel service DPD expects a drop in shipments
parcel deliverer According to its own statements, DPD Germany generated sales of 2.4 billion euros last year. (Photo: dpa) Aschaffenburg In view of the high inflation and the impending recession,…
Deutsche Post suffers an unexpectedly sharp slump in online retail
Dusseldorf The sharp slump in German online retail is dampening the growth of Deutsche Post DHL. The European market leader in the parcel business lost 10.7 percent of its sales…
Retailer delivers purchases using drones
san francisco Walmart becomes the first American retailer to use drones extensively for grocery delivery. Four million households in six states – Texas, Arizona, Utah, Virginia, Arkansas, Florida – will…
Deutsche Post boss promises acquisitions
Bonn Post boss Frank Appel announced further company acquisitions at the virtual general meeting of the group on Friday. “Our balance sheet has become significantly stronger over the past year,”…
The supervisory board of Deutsche Post is becoming more female
State Secretary Luise Hölscher The tax expert is to be elected to the Deutsche Post supervisory board on Friday. (Photo: imago images/Jens Schicke) Dusseldorf The nomination last December was not…
Deutsche Post: E-commerce is weakening, freight business is growing
Deutsche Post headquarters in Bonn Dusseldorf For two years, numerous lockdowns during the corona pandemic had brought Deutsche Post’s parcel business a steep rise. But the boom seems to be…
Deutsche Post balance sheet check: The cash dilemma of the post office
Deutsche Post in the balance sheet check The logistics group takes in more money than it had expected. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Post CFO Melanie Kreis simply can’t get rid of…
“We were too complacent with what we achieved”
Dusseldorf None of the major economies are being hit as hard by the consequences of the Ukraine war as Germany’s. But what does that mean in concrete terms? How will…
Deutsche Post shares: Shareholders receive more dividends
Dusseldorf Deutsche Post raised its earnings forecast four times last year – most recently in November 2021, when it announced an operating profit of 7.7 billion euros. She has even…
Amazon is closing its own bookstores
new York Amazon’s farewell comes as a surprise. On Wednesday evening, the Seattle-based world leader in e-commerce announced that it intends to close all of its own physical bookstores, four-star…
Deutsche Post increases postage: standard letters cost 85 cents
Postage increases Five cents more will be due from January 1st for a standard letter. Anyone who still has old postage stamps has to postage them. (Photo: dpa) Bonn Those…
A UPS driver is cycling through Munich
Munich At the end of that day, Zlatko Hlota will have made 121 stops, burned 2309 calories, cycled twelve kilometers and walked 19,000 steps. The effort, often in vain. Just…
A UPS driver is cycling through Munich
Munich At the end of that day, Zlatko Hlota will have made 121 stops, burned 2309 calories, cycled twelve kilometers and walked 19,000 steps. The effort, often in vain. Just…
The state should sell post and telecom soon
regensburg What has been tried and tested in the USA often comes to Germany. For Jürgen Kühling, head of the Monopolies Commission, this is a threatening prospect. Corporate profits there…