Press Releases 2005

DPD delivers tournament footballs across Europe

Aschaffenburg, 14 December 2005 – adidas has extended its cooperation with DPD by a further two years, taking it up to 31 December 2007. Under this contract, DPD will deliver approximately 1.5 million adidas parcels per year from Germany to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany. The contract also covers a tailor-made return management system and forwarding bulk goods in Poland.

Charles Prussky, Head of Warehousing & Distribution at adidas, says that DPD was chosen because of its international expertise and the positive long-standing working relationship between the two parties. “We are looking at a major logistic challenge during this exciting football year. Therefore we need a partner we can fully rely on. DPD have repeatedly demonstrated their high standards and flexibility by recording punctual delivery rates of over 95 percent, both domestically as well as internationally."

Last weekend, DPD delivered 17,500 parcels with the new adidas “Teamgeist” ball to sports retailers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux. During the already busy Christmas season, more than 1,500 German DPD employees pulled together for a special night shift last weekend to make sure the balls were ready to go. On Saturday, DPD delivered more than 14,500 parcels to 1,700 sporting good retailers in Germany and in the Benelux, Switzerland and Austria with a punctual delivery rate of 99.7 percent.

Hans Fluri, CEO of DPD and member of the general management of GeoPost with responsibility for GeoPost’s operations in Germany, Switzerland and the Benelux, says about the extension of the cooperation with adidas-Salomon: “We always work hard to be a reliable and flexible partner to our customers. We are very pleased that adidas has rewarded us with a two year extension of the partnership. We will keep combining our local competence with our international network capabilities to offer the highest quality service to adidas.”