Express Benchmarking 2009

The European Express Benchmarking includes overall market shares for the leading players in 12 European countries, as well as across all of the significant market segmentations such as business-to-business, destination, and service level.

Report Highlights
The European (EU-12) express and parcels market amounted to EUR39.1bn in 2007 which implied a year-on-year growth rate of 4.4%. The top 5 DHL (Deutsche Post), La Poste/ Geopost, TNT, UPS and Royal Mail/GLS controlled more than half of this total.

DHL is the leader in the European express and parcels market with a share of 18%, while TNT and La Poste/ Geopost follow behind after continued to show strong revenue growth in 2007. Meanwhile FedEx and UPS have strengthened their positions after improving their networks and integrating their acquisitions, ANC and Lynx respectively.

Rising transportation costs and economic problems have caused a shift from air to road and to customers using more Economy type of products. Broadening of traditional parcel companies' portfolio in Express and B2C has increased competitive pressures on integators and incumbent post offices transforming the competitive landscape in Europe.
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• European Express & Parcels market
– Overall Ranking – slide 6
– Express Vs. Parcel – slide 7
– Domestic Vs. International – slide 8
– B2B Vs. B2C – slide 9
– Market Shares by Service Level – slide 12
– Market Shares by Recipient – slide 14
– Market Shares by Destination – slide 15
– Comments – slide 14
• Country Profiles:
– Belgium – slide 16
– Denmark – slide 25
– Finland – slide 36
– France – slide 45
– Germany – slide 54
– Italy – slide 64
– Netherlands – slide 73
– Norway – slide 82
– Poland – slide 91
– Spain – slide 100
– Sweden – slide 109
– UK – slide 118
• Appendix
– Abbreviations – slide 129
– Definitions for services, regions and other segmentations – slide 130
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