Press reviews 2002

• Stern: "Testing parcel post deliveries"

The trouble with the German Post: Parcel delivery takes too much time and is mostly sloppily executed. The test of "Stern"-magazine reveals the weak points of the 'yellow giant' - and shows us how the gigantic machinery works.

by Stefan Schmitz

published 12 December 2002 in the German "Stern"

• DVZ special edition: "Postal markets are competing worldwide"

Revenues of more than 500 billion Euros and strong monopolies - the global postal market seems to be appealing to postal companies.

by Horst Manner-Romberg

published 10 December 2002 in the special issue of the German "DVZ"

• DVZ: "Barriers on the express highway"

Not only collapsing prices are giving the postal service providers a hard time. New demands of shippers are adding to the situation. Thanks to intensive use of new technologies, express providers are succeeding in staying competitive.

by Horst Manner-Romberg and Helmut Deecke

published 09 November 2002 in the German der "DVZ"

• Logistik inside: "The small ones are keeping their market shares"

After the wave of acquisitions of the big CEP service providers, the small ones are taking their chances. 

by Serge Voigt

published in issue 22/2002 of the German "Logistik inside"



 

• DVZ insert: "Top dogs and their  districts"

by Erwin Maruhn

published 09 November 2002 in the German "DVZ" insert

• Verkehrsrundschau: "Lying in wait"

There's a lot at stake. To be precise: 115 billion consignments. That big is the EU mail volume. No wonder that all participants watch the cake like a hawk in order to miss no small crumb when the mail market gets liberalised.

by Michael Cordes

published December 2002 in the German "Verkehrsrundschau"

• Handelsblatt: "Deutsche Post has to cut down when it comes to expansions"

Deutsche Post CEO Klaus Zumwinkel wants to present his European strategy for the mail business together with the value enhancement programme "Star" not until autumn.

by Axel Granzow

published 16 August 2002 in the German "Handelsblatt"

• DVZ: "Small businesses still own 44 percent"

The concentration in the CEP market will continue.

by Frank Schnell

published 05 November 2002 in the German "DVZ"




  

• Transporte XXI: “La normativa europea lleva a una situación de oligopolio en el sector PEC, con cuatro operadores copando el mercado”

"The European law leads to a situation of oligopoly in the CEP sector, with four service providers dominating the market."

by Javier Descalzo

published 15 November 2002 in the Spanish "Transporte XXI"



  

• Anuario del Transporte 2002: "El Modelo A Seguir"
  
  

"A model to be followed"

published in the Spanish "Anuario del Transporte 2002"

• Postcomm: "Following the great success of last year's first edition the Hamburg based MRU has now published a new volume of "The Top 101 of the European CEP Market"."
  
  
  

published 09 October 2002 on the Postal Services Commission website www.psc.gov.uk

• KFZ-Anzeiger: "CEP services: Market overview"

published 17 October 2002 in the German "KFZ-Anzeiger"

• KFZ-Anzeiger: "The Deutsche Logistik Akademie and the Manner-Romberg business consultancy offer advanced training courses to become a CEP manager, ..."

...which have been specially designed for employees and executive managers of shipping companies. The training courses are starting in autumn.



published 05 September 2002 in the German "KFZ-Anzeiger"






  

• TW Frontal: "As easy as public relations can get"

The handbook "Public relations for CEP services" delivers the basic tools for professional external communication. Includes current mailing list.

published August 2002 in the German "TW Frontal"

• DVZ KEP-Nachrichten: "Market overview"

MRU Manner-Romberg business consultancy, Hamburg, has published a new issue of its study "The TOP101 of the European CEP Market".

published 27 September 2002 in issue 39 of the German "DVZ KEP-Nachrichten"







    

• Dekra Newsletter: "Manner-Romberg going to be head of department at the Deutsche Logistik Akademie"

Horst Manner-Romberg has been announced to be head of the CEP department at the Deutsche Logistik Akademie (DLA), Bremen (Germany).



published in issue 06 of the German "Dekra Newsletter"





   

• ProFirma: "Good times to gamble on conditions"

The market could get tougher for the many service providers of the CEP market - which is advantageous for small-scale customers. The odds are good to negotiate new prices and delivery conditions. 

by Uta Janzen
published in the August issue 2002 of the German "ProFirma"




  

• Logistik für Unternehmen: "CEP market developments"

The European CEP market is situated in the conflicting areas of concentration, recession and growth.


by Bernd Müller

published 07 August 2002 in the German "Logistik für Unternehmen"


 


  

• Logistik inside: "Universally active? By no means."

Big logistics service providers such as Fedex like to excite the impression to be at home at all levels. That's basically not true.



by Alexander Heintze

published 09 August 2002 in issue 15 of the German "Logistik inside"





 

• Logistik inside: "DLA assigns department executive"

published 12 July 2002 in the German "Logistik inside"

• Handelsblatt: "Deutsche Post buys foreign letter service provider for the first time"

by Axel Granzow
published 09 July 2002 in the German "Handelsblatt"




  

• KEP Spezial: "Bluetooth technology offers chances for rationalisation to CEP service providers"

by Marcus Walter

published in issue 1/2002 of the German "KEP-Spezial"







  

• Wirtschaftswoche: "Dynamic impulse"

by Reinhold Böhmer

published 20 June 2002 in the German "Wirtschaftswoche"

• MM Logistik: "CEP: Time is money"

If you want to be "well received" with your customers, you need clear-sightedness when it comes to the manifold and confusing offers of CEP service providers.

by Uta Janzen

published 14 June 2002 in the German "MM Logistik"

• Transporte XXI: "UPS, un gigante en Estados Unidos y un enano en el continente europeo"

"UPS, a giant in the US and a dwarf in Europe."

published 01 June 2002 in the Spanish "Transporte XXI"

• Logistik inside: "Battle of the parcel giants"

Deutsche Post and UPS both claim leadership in the European market.

by Anne Katrin Peters

published 17 May 2002 in the German "Logistik inside"






 

• Handelsblatt: "The top of the European CEP market"

published 15 May 2002 in the German "Handelsblatt"

• VDI agenda: "Quo vadis CEP market?"

Agenda of VDI-Gesellschaft Fördertechnik Materialfluss Logistik

05 and 06 June 2002 in Bad Soden, Germany







  

• KEP aktuell: "The issue of transport is to be decided in the very end"

Warehousing and distribution concepts: Shippers have three basic choices.

published in the issue 01/2002 of the "KEP aktuell"

• Die Zeit: "Distances are getting longer"

Consultant Horst Manner-Romberg talks about customer friendliness and Africa as a growth market.

by Karsten Huhn

published 04 April 2002 in the German "Die Zeit"

• Wirtschaftswoche: "Bumpy road"

Integrating its numerous subsidiaries - central promise before going public - turns out to be an Herculean task.

by Reinhold Böhmer

published 04 April 2002 in the German "Wirtschaftswoche"

• wik-Newsletter: "Effect of e-commerce on the postal market"

by Hilke Smit

published March 2002 in issue 46 of the German "wik-Newsletter"








 

• tw.frontal: "Straight from a consultant's workshop"

by Paul Itzer

published in issue 03/2002 of the German "tw.frontal"









 

• DVZ: "Truth and fiction in the CEP market"

by Erwin Maruhn

published 14 March 2002 in issue 31 of the German "DVZ"

• Logistik inside: "Postal companies are still top dogs"
  
  

The formerly state-owned postal companies are dominating the European courier, express and parcel market (CEP).



by Serge Voigt

published in issue 01/2002 of the German "Logistik inside"

• DVZ: "Book about the CEP market gives a clear overview of the booming industry"

German Manner-Romberg business consultancy has published a new study.



by Erwin Maruhn

published in issue 17, 09 February 2002 in the "DVZ"