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60 per cent growth and 15,000 new express customers over the past year – Express-Services now go international

Aschaffenburg, 13 March 2008 – In 2008 DPD, the provider of standard and express parcel services, is continuing the offensive on the express market which it began last year. After establishing a comprehensive and high-performance express service in Germany in 2007, international express routes are now gradually being launched, starting with the Benelux countries. From May DPD customers will be able to ship express parcels to and from Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, taking advantage of a range of supplementary services in the process. The same service options are available within these countries, and further neighbouring states to Germany will be linked in the course of this year.

"The Express-Services we launched in 2007 featuring deliveries at 8.30 hrs, 10.00 hrs, 12.00 hrs or 18.00 hrs and backed up by a range of service options made a tremendous start," says Arnold Schroven, Chief Executive Officer of DPD GmbH & Co.KG. "We've acquired 15,000 new express customers, and shipment volumes have risen by 60 per cent." For 2008, too, DPD's CEO expects double-digit growth rates.

Mr Schroven is especially pleased by the fact that "with a 99.6 per cent rate for punctually delivered express shipments our performance level reached an absolute quality peak from the very beginning." He adds that the groundwork for this had been put into place by DPD in recent years in the form of a gradual and targeted expansion of its network. This is able to ship even time-critical goods fast and reliably thanks to direct transport links between almost all of its German depots. "In future, too, the quality of our services will be the principal benchmark in the expansion of our product range," states Mr Schroven. "This is why further express links to new countries will be thoroughly tested and optimised before they come on stream step by step."