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On 6 of September the company "DPD Ukraine", one of the leading parcel delivery providers in the CEP market of Ukraine, celebrates the fourth anniversary of its activities.
For this, which at first glance appears to be only a short period of time, "DPD Ukraine" has successfully established a unified nation delivery network, ensuring prompt delivery to any destination in Ukraine and has gained the trust of more than 1,500 customers. Between 2008 and 2011, 8 branches were opened as well as 22 representative offices throughout Ukraine.
As a result of 4 year activity more than 4,5 million parcels were delivered across Ukraine.Turnover of DPD in Ukraine for the period January-August 2011 almost doubled compared to the same period in 2010. The total weight of all transported freight exceeded 53 thousand tons.
The rapidly developing company "DPD Ulraine" offers a rational relation "price-quality" and a professional service level matching the European standards.Today, the company counts 200 qualified employees, with a total infrastructure space of 5,500 m2. A fleet of over 150 vehicles of various capacities ensures quick and efficient delivery of parcels and freight from the shipper's door to the consignee's door in more than 29 000 cities and towns of the country.
Due to the positive, dymamic developing of the company and the high quality of customer services "DPD Ukraine" was awarded with "Ukrainian Transport Olimp" in the nomination of "National delivery network" in 2011.
"Stable dynamics of growth of the client base-this is one of the main criteria by which we evaluate the development of our company. This year we expanded our branch network by opening a new branch in the city of Ternopol, which allowed us to significantly reduce delivery time for the western region, thereby attract even more new customers in the western part of the country. We are working for consistently high standards of delivery,as well as improving our portfolio of services, constantly updating it with new convenient services and additional options to satisfy all the needs and wishes of our customers"- said the Managing Director of DPD Ukraine, Oksana Yakovleva
"I want to thank all our partners for choosing DPD! We will do our utmost in order to justify your confidence. We aim to ensure that another new year will strengthen our relationships and bring new successes!"
By the decision of the Secretariat of Ukrainian Awards the company "DPD Ukraine" was awarded with "Ukrainian Transport Olimp" in the nomination "National delivery network".
Expert Committee of the Award recognized DPD in Ukraine as one of the leading parcels, freight and documents delivery companies in the Ukrainian market, which shows the positive dynamics of development, provides high quality customer service and deserves to be awarded with a special industry award.
"We are proud that "DPD Ukraine" became a laureate of "Ukrainian Transport Olimp" for the second consecutive yaer. I'm sure, that the high evaluation of our company is the result of an impeccable reputation in parcels delivery market. We provide high quality services to iur customers than certainly earned their trust. All the activity of "DPD Ukraine" - its strategy, experience, professional team focused primarily on the needs of our customers" - said Managing Director of DPD Ukraine Oksana Yakovleva.
DPD Ukraine successfully operates in Ukraine since September 2007 and provides its customers with services of documents, parcel and freight delivery corresponding to international high standards. During more than 3 years of operations DPD Ukraine successfully established a comprehensive domestic delivery network. At this moment this network covers the whole terrotory of the country and services more than 29 000 cities and towns by offering European service.
Kiev / May, 27, 2010 – DPD in Ukraine, which belongs to GeoPost Group, a leading European player in the market of express parcel delivery, recorded a consolidated turnover growth of 90% in 2009.
In spite of being impacted by the global financial crisis, which started in 2008, DPD Ukraine managed not only to maintain but also to improve its pace of growth due to coverage network expansion, services portfolio enlargement and service quality improvement.
In 2009 DPD Ukraine opened a new terminal in Kyiv, four depots in the cities Dnipropetrovsk, L’viv, Zaporizhzhia and Simferopol and eight representative offices in the main cities of Ukraine, thus providing a 100% covering of 19 regions of Ukraine. A range of service options such as cash payment for delivery, online tracking system, online calculator, intracity tariff, money back guarantee and an automatic insurance of up to 520 EUR were offered to customers in Ukraine last year.
In 2009, DPD strengthened its position as leading player in the field of express parcel delivery in Ukraine, transporting and delivering more than 1.2 million parcels, which is 2.5 times more than in 2008. The total weight of delivered parcels amounted to more than 10.000 tons.
“Despite unstable economic situation in the country, we managed to keep our leading position at the express parcels’ delivery market”, notes Oksana Yakovleva, Managing Director of DPD in Ukraine. “In 2010 we plan to improve reached results and continue expanding and improving the range of services for our clients.” DPD in Ukraine plans to expand the coverage, reduce delivery terms, launch new services and options such as: express delivery within Ukraine, packaging services and additional online services.
Sergey Kruglov, President of DPD Russia and CIS within GeoPost Group, states: “Our achievements in Ukraine are an important step in the ongoing development and expansion of the DPD network in CIS countries. Future launch of international parcel operations of DPD in Ukraine will make access to European market for our customers easier and closer.”
Kiev / April, 13, 2010 – GeoPost, subsidiary of La Poste and leading player in the market of express parcel delivery, recorded consolidated sales of 3.093 billion euros, in 2009, at constant exchange rates and on a like-for-like basis. GeoPost’s 2009 sales were slightly down by 4.6% compared with the previous year’s sales. This decrease was due to a 1.9% fall in volumes and a drop in prices.
In 2009, in spite of being impacted by the global financial crisis, which started in 2008, GeoPost maintained its pace of growth both in Europe, with the acquisition of ten new Seur franchises in Spain, and outside Europe. GeoPost’s sales and operating profit held up well and the company won numerous new clients.
In 2009, GeoPost maintained its position as leading specialist of express parcels in Europe, transporting and delivering more than 540 million parcels, thanks to its extensive network.
Moscow, February 25th, 2010 – The launch of a state-of-the art sorter took place at the central hub of DPD in Russia, located in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region. The intelligent sortation equipment is unmatched on the Russian express parcel market.
Innovation plays a key role within the strategy of DPD in Russia. As the volumes or parcels and freight delivered by DPD continuously grow, this strategy makes it possible for DPD in Russia to operate ever more effectively, to offer sustainably high quality of transportation logistics services and to flexibly adapt to the dynamic requirements of today’s marketplace.
The opening of the new sorter means a significant expansion of DPD’s operations capacity. The number of parcels processed at the central hub daily can be increased by 50%. The intelligent control system of the sorter which is run by one operator from a central programmable logic control unit, allows optimum utilisation of the hub capacity. Thanks to the automation of parcel scanning, sorting, weighing and measuring operations the deployment of the sorter considerably reduces manual work and nullifies the probability of errors when performing these operations.
In 2010, the advanced sorting equipment will help DPD in Russia process over 5 million parcels at its central hub. The automated sorter and its intellectual control system complying with the industry’s top international standards have been manufactured, installed and put into operation by BEUMER, a worldwide leader in material handling and sorting solutions, a company of a German origin.
“In line with the development of the national economy we focus on upgrading the operations processes and technologies. The launch of the state-of-the-art intellectual sorter which is unmatched on the Russian market is a major step towards maximizing our effectiveness. As a result, the customers of DPD in Russia will benefit from even higher quality of our service,” commented Nikolay Voinov, General Director of DPD in Russia.
Wolfgang Lehmacher, CEO of GeoPost Intercontinental, adds: “In our strategy, Russia holds a strategic position between the European Union, Turkey and the booming Asian market. Over the past 5 years we have expanded our high quality European platform into a worldwide capability, into a global network. The new sorter is another innovative move in a series of developments not only for customers in Russia, but as well for more than 300,000 customers of GeoPost all over the world.”
Kiev, December 8, 2009 - DPD Ukraine continues to expand its regional network and opens a depot in Zaporizhzhya.
Zaporizhzhya is one of the largest administrative, industrial and cultural centers of the Southern Ukraine with population of almost 800 thousand people. The economic potential of the city is more than 280 industrial enterprises, most of which are of the machine building, metallurgy and metal processing, chemical and petrochemical industry, food industry. Zaporizhzhya is situated at the intersection of two major linehauls: Moscow-Kharkiv-Simferopol-Zaporizhzhya, Kryvy Rig-Zaporizhzhya-Donbas.
Due to the economic and geographic importance of the city, DPD Ukraine opened a new office in a convenient location in the center of Zaporizhzhya, at the intersection of major traffic crossings of the city with the access possibility by all means of transport, covering both banks of the city. Office is located on the territory of the newly built warehouse with total area of 190 square m with capacity of up to 1000 parcels per day.
Opening a depot in Zaporizhzhya provides effective backhaul and handling freight traffic of the Southern and Eastern regions of Ukraine, as well as allows delivering parcels and documents to any town of Zaporizhzhya region, thereby providing 100% coverage of the region. In addition, Zaporizhzhya depot ensures the delivery of parcels and freight within 24 hours to such cities as Kiev, Odesa, Mykolayiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvy Rig, Kharkiv, as well as in the opposite direction from all the listed cities.
"The active expansion of our depot network is an important component of further development of our company in Ukraine. Due to this we offer our customers even greater coverage of the territory of Ukraine for the delivery of parcels and freight, while ensuring the traditional high quality DPD standards», - said Managing Director of DPD Ukraine Oksana Yakovleva.
Kiev, 30th of November 2009 – Following a longlasting partnership with the Swedish Post DPD has now become partner to the new Posten Norden in most Scandinavian countries. Now that the final hurdles posed by anti-cartel legislation have been overcome DPD, the international provider of parcel and express services, is working closely together with the newly founded Posten Norden postal service in northern Europe.
Posten Norden has been created by a merger between the Danish and Swedish postal services, the latter of which was a longstanding DPD partner. “We now have an even stronger major partner for the big four northern-European countries and have effectively reinforced our position in Scandinavia”, confirms DPD CEO Arnold Schroven. “This opens up new and attractive prospects for the further expansion of our operations in this region, due to the broad range of services Posten Norden is offering.
In order to prevent any negative effects on free competition the European Commission had made it a condition for the merger that in Denmark DPD and the Danish postal service should dispose of a small number of specific assets and contracts in the B2B sector. This precondition was met with the recent disposal of customer contacts and one depot. DPD's operations in Denmark will be continued unchanged with its new partner, which has been strengthened by the merger. DPD Denmark will continue as before to implement its partner's B2B services in Denmark, with products, services and customer contacts remaining under the DPD brand.
International parcel and express service provider DPD has been operating in Scandinavia since 1996, and the cooperation with Sweden's postal service has been in place since 2001. Over the years the company has registered continuous growth in its parcel shipments to and from northern Europe.
"This initial merger between two postal services in Europe represents a ground-breaking development for the whole industry and may turn out to be the model for further mergers", comments Mr Schroven. "DPD has only benefited from the development and was involved as a partner throughout the entire process."
Kiev / Bangalore / Chennai, 2 November 2009 – DPD Continental has now opened two new depots in India, which considerably extends the company's network in the south of the sub-continent. The joint enterprise operated by DPD majority shareholder GeoPost, the express and parcels holding company of France's La Poste, together with Continental Air Express, which is part of the Continental Carriers Group, has identified the metropolitan regions of Bangalore and Chennai as the principal growth markets in India. Since the beginning of October the company has established a presence in both centres with a depot of its own.
After successfully creating a base for itself in Delhi and Mumbai, DPD Continental is now entering on a phase of expansion, with particular focus on the business centres of Bangalore and Chennai.
As India's IT capital Bangalore offers DPD Continental just as promising growth opportunities as Chennai, the former Madras, which is home to a large part of India's electronics industry as well as a large number of mechanical engineering companies and textile manufacturers. "Our involvement in India is an important building block in the ongoing development of our attractive intercontinental CLASSIC service. With the current expansion of DPD's parcel operations in India we are optimising access to the Indian market for our customers with DPD's reliable quality standards, and at the same time coming closer to our Indian customers", explains DPD CEO Arnold Schroven.
At present DPD Continental is concentrating on the import and export of parcel shipments to and from India, and has set itself the aim of providing its customers with especially simple and reliable shipping solutions. In addition to its own infrastructure DPD Continental uses the capacities of the Continental Carriers Group, which has been operating on India's transport market for 52 years now.
Kiev, October 20, 2009 - DPD Ukraine continues to expand its regional network. In September a new depot was opened in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Simferopol.
Simferopol is a major transportation hub of Crimea. Big part of connections of the republic with the rest of Ukraine is made through Simferopol.
With the opening of Simferopol depot the company DPD Ukraine guarantees the delivery of parcels and documents in each town of the Crimea, thus providing 100% coverage of the region.
Opening of the depot allowed the company to improve the delivery of parcels to such important cities as: Sevastopol, Kerch, Yalta and other towns of Crimea. The introduction of daily linehaul routes between the Southern, Central and Eastern regions of Ukraine ensures delivery of shipments to the major cities of these regions within 24 hours.
"Opening a depot in such an important location as the city of Simferopol means not only the expansion of our branch network, but also the possibility of even faster and more qualitative response to the requests of our customers", - said Managing Director of DPD Ukraine Oksana Yakovleva.
Kiev, October 14, 2009 - DPD Ukraine participated in the 3rd International Congress of Logistics on "Logistics in crisis time: Instruments of resource saving and Sustainable Development" - the main event in the logistics sector.
Company DPD Ukraine was presented at the Congress by the managing director Oksana Yakovleva with a report "CEP strategies to counteract the recession on the example of DPD Ukraine and DPD in Germany”.
The winners of the national rating LOGISTICS AWARD UKRAINE-2009, organized by the Ukrainian Logistics Association (ULA) with the support of the European Logistics Association, were awarded at the Congress. At the ceremony, which was the conclusion of the Congress, the company DPD Ukraine received the diploma of the winner in the nomination "Best Freight Forwarding Company of the Year" from Anthony Alfonso, President of the European Logistics Association.
As the main rating criteria, which correspond to the specifics of modern business logistics and characterize all major aspects of financial and industrial activity of logistics companies, were used the following characteristics: comprehensiveness of services (number of services and coverage of logistics functions), the company's image (time and geography, openness, fame, reputation, competitive advantage), the level of competencies, technical and technological equipment, financial condition, the volume of works and services, economic efficiency and quality of logistics solutions.
As a result of the rating a leaders’ team of the logistic services’ market of Ukraine was formed, which includes the best companies, by definition of experts and competent judges, the participants of the rating of «Logistics Award Ukraine», having a reputation of stable and reliable companies by the results of 2008-2009.
Winners of the national rating will take part in the European rating, which will be held by the European Logistics Association.
"The winning in the national rating in the field of logistics gives us confidence in the right direction of our development, and the services we provide are demanded by the customers and the market. We will strive to continue to fully meet the highest requirements of both international standards and requirements of our customers and partners", - said Managing Director of DPD Ukraine Oksana Yakovleva.
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