DHL'S Acquisition Of UK Mail Is Aimed At Deepening The 3 Largest Electricity Supplier Market In Europe.

Deutsche Post Group Deutsche Post (DHL) offered 243 million pounds to buy British Post operator UK Mail group to consolidate Europe's 3 largest electricity supplier market: Britain, Germany and France.

European postal companies must cut costs and invest in new technologies and services, because they try to lead foreign competitors in the lucrative parcel delivery market, such as Amazon, an American e-commerce giant.

UK Mail focused on business users and launched new in Coventry last year.

Equipped with advanced

It can handle 24000 packages per hour (4 times before).

"The expansion of our logistics network in Europe is due to the growing demand for cross-border distribution of electricity suppliers," said JuergenGerdes, member of the DHL board.

In recent years, there has been a wave of integration in the logistics market.

For example, last year, the US FedEx bought Holland express giant TNT Express for 4 billion 400 million euros, thus surpassing UPS.

Second logistics companies.

In the past 2 years, the share price of UK Mail has dropped by 1/3, and DHL has taken the opportunity to buy it.

"The Board believes that with the support of DHL's huge financial and operational resources, the situation of UK Mai can be improved, and the parcel and mail business will also get better development," Peter Kane, chairman of UK Mail, said at the conference.

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