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Group Management Report
33
We will save considerable costs as a result of our expanded business plat-
forms.In various cross-sectional functions, Group-wide restructuring
projects have already been launched by which we hope to realize savings
of several hundred million euros over the next few years.
The main driving forces here are the best practice approaches and pooling
effects,for example in the personnel and corporate purchasing departments.
At operational level,too,we are realizing synergy effects:office space,ware-
houses and sorting infrastructure are being used across the corporation and
transport capacities worldwide are being optimized.
Some of these initiatives will lead to actual revenue increases and cost reduc-
tions as early as in the current financial year.And,integration work that has
already been completed successfully will also bear fruit in the current year.
Now that DSL Bank has been integrated we are in a position to realize new
business potential in the area of FINANCIAL SERVICES. In the EXPRESS
corporate division we already have an integrated European parcel distri-
bution network and the first truly European products are now emerging.
And the LOGISTICS corporate division too will be seeing some benefit
in the current year from the integration efforts they have already made.
All in all,the macro-economic parameters continue to be comparatively
favorable in the current financial year.Even if the trend in the mail business,
in particular with a partial access for competitors,cannot be predicted with
complete certainty as yet,our expectations for the Group in 2001 are opti-
mistic.We are convinced that we will be able to increase revenue and prof-
its in the current year.
Deutsche Post World Net has optimum prospects for establishing itself as a
leading global player in the logistics business.We want to be our customer’s
partner throughout the world and, therefore,assure the long-term devel-
opment potential of our company.And the ones who stand to gain?
• Our customers,because we offer worldwide services from one source,
• Our employees,because we have attractive employment opportunities
with the chance of career development,
• And our shareholders,because they own part of a growing,highly prof-
itable and value-generating corporation.
We shall use these opportunities and are set to continue successfully along
the course we have chosen.