2009 week 36
TNT in the media - week 36
TNT Post Celebrates UK Birthday
1 September 2009
TNT Post is celebrating five years of success since it launched its services in the UK in August 2004. In that time, the company has experienced incredible growth from delivering 300 million items in its first year to over 2.5 billion today. With a 14 per cent market share, it has consistently been the leading competitor to Royal Mail and now employs over 800 people.
The company launched with Sky as its first client and now has nearly 4,000 customers across the UK in all sectors ranging from financial services, utilities and retail. Well known clients include Barclays, Centrica and BT, NPower, Next and Orange.
TNT Post was the first company to develop dedicated services for customers with small and irregular mail volumes which has enabled it to provide small and medium sized organisations with the opportunity to share the economic and service benefits of UK postal service deregulation.
TNT Post has also made significant progress in working for clients in the public sector, including Shropshire County Council, Solihull Community Housing, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust as well as through Government procurement agencies including Buying Solutions and Value Wales.
The company has made multi-million pound investments in regional sorting and distribution depots that house market leading mail sorting technology. Customers throughout the UK have benefitted from the rollout of dedicated offices in Scotland, the South West and Wales, the North, Midlands and London and the South East with the head office in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
TNT Post said that when it launched its UK operations, it made a commitment to innovate the UK postal market and that it has delivered on that promise with a series of new services, including:
- The UK’s first carbon neutral mail service in the UK (2008)
- greenPost designed to encourage direct mailers to meet the new PAS2020 environmental standard
- yourStamp a bespoke, customer designed stamp service which have proven to increase the response rates of direct mailings
- TNT-it an innovative hybrid postal service, allowing users to send letters from their PC to TNT Post’s partners print and fulfillment facilities, for printing and delivery
- 3-DM: first true 3D effect direct mail product in the UK
Nick Wells, chief executive of TNT Post UK said, “I want to thank all our customers, partners and staff for their contribution to making TNT Post the success it is today. We promised five years ago that we would offer an innovative, value for money service that would benefits all potential customers. We have made great progress, but we will not sit back and be complacent.
“We face stiff competition from Royal Mail that has a 374 year advantage over us and we have worked tirelessly to make sure that everyone in the UK benefits from postal deregulation; we continue to lobby for a competitive playing field in the UK on issues such as VAT that currently put 40% of the market out of our reach.
“We will continue to innovate and provide value for money service for our customers and look forward to another five years of success in the UK.” he said.
Source: www.hellmail.co.uk
TNT tops DJ Sustainability Indexes for third year
4 September 2009
TNT has been named as a global ‘Supersector leader’ for ‘Industrial Goods and Services’ (including ‘Industrial transportation’) of the 2009 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI).
TNT also earned the highest score of all companies included in the DJSI for the third consecutive year. The company was awarded an overall score of 95 out of a possible 100, an improvement over last year’s score of 92. In addition, TNT earned the highest score in two of the indexes’ dimensions – economic and social – and showed a score improvement in the environmental dimension.
In addition, TNT achieved the highest scores in the supersector ‘Industrial Goods and Services’ in 12 out of the 16 criteria that make up the index. Areas that achieved a 100% score for the first time are Environmental reporting, Climate strategy, Occupational health and safety, and Social reporting. TNT maintained its score of 100% in Risk and Crisis Management, Code of Conduct and Compliance, Customer Relationship Management, Fuel Efficiency, Human Capital Development and Talent Attraction and Development.
Peter Bakker, CEO of TNT, commented: “We are extremely proud to maintain our top position in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. This distinction is all the more outstanding given the difficult economic conditions. It recognizes the constancy of the sustainability efforts of TNT's teams around the world, whom I wish to thank enormously. Our customers will know that we are taking our corporate responsibility very seriously.”
Separately, Deutsche Post DHL announced that it has been added to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the first time as well as to the European Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index.
The DJSI World sector classification is based on the ICB industry, supersector, sector, and subsector classification. All the companies in the DJSI World investable stocks universe are assigned – based on the company’s primary revenue source – to one of the 58 DJSI sectors. TNT belongs to the sector ‘Industrial transportation’, which is part of the supersector ‘Industrial Goods and Services.’
The scores were awarded by SAM, a sustainability investment specialist, which assessed the sustainability performance of over 1,000 listed companies. Launched in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide. Based on the cooperation of Dow Jones Indexes, STOXX Limited and SAM they provide asset managers with reliable and objective benchmarks to manage sustainability portfolios.
Source: CEP Research, www.cep-research.com
TNT and Renault join forces on electrics
4 September 2009
Postal distribution company TNT has joined forces with Renault in a bid to drive down the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of its global post and express delivery fleet.
As part of its international environmental programme known as Planet Me, the company is working with Renault with the idea of using its electric vehicles to meet its needs in the Netherlands.
According to Ruben van Doorn, the strategy manager for TNT, the electric vehicles represent an ideal solution for its urban activities. He said that the work with Renault on developing electric vehicles matches its ambition to cut CO2 emissions and will help to speed up the acceptance of electric cars.
Renault only recently unveiled its electric vehicle strategy to fleet managers and now vehicle development will begin with the aim of making the vehicles operational by 2011.
Source: The Green Car Website, www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk