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Divisions Group Management Report
Deutsche Post World Net Annual Report 2007
Newspapers for Germany
We deliver newspapers and magazines nationwide and on the day speci ed by the
customer. Our Press Services Business Unit o ers two product groups. e preferred
periodical is the product traditionally used by publishers to mail subscribed publica-
tions, whilst the standard periodical is our distribution product primarily for com-
panies which publish customer magazines to advertise their products and services.
Our special services include electronic address updating as well as complaint and
quality management.
According to market studies, the press services market amounted to . billion items
in , or . fewer than in the previous year. Growth in the business of television
programme guides and magazines enabled us to o set decreases, particularly in the
daily newspaper segment, so that we maintained our market share (.). e trend
towards heavier items, and therefore higher average prices, is being sustained.
Highly contested parcel business
We deliver around . million parcels a day in Germany and seek to make access
to our services as simple as possible for customers. We have developed special solu-
tions tailored to the segments in which our business customers operate. We support
mail order companies, for example, in transporting their merchandise to consum-
ers and carrying their returns. By way of more than , retail outlets and some
Packstations, we enable our private customers to send and collect parcels and
small packets around the clock practically everywhere. In addition, we have suc-
cessfully tested the Paketbox – a letterbox for franked parcels. We make systematic
use of the high-speed medium that is the internet: Private customers can purchase
cardboard boxes, frank parcels, place parcel collection orders and track items online.
Business customers can register easily, and send and track parcels immediately.
In , the market volume of the parcel business totalled . billion, which repre-
sents a year-on-year rise of .. Several very capable providers compete for shares
in this highly contested sector. We stabilised our share at around .
Source: company estimates
Market share (volume) in
press services, 2007
Market volume: 17.9 billion items
11.4% Deutsche Post
88.6% Competition
Source: company estimates
Market share (revenue) in parcels, 2007
Market volume: €6.3 billion
38% DHL
62% Competition