British B2C specialist HDN announced today it has agreed an international partnership with TNT forcross-border deliveries of home shopping parcels. The deal extends an existing cooperation between
TNT Post Parcel Service and HDN in the UK.Under the cooperation deal, HDN, the UK’s largest dedicated home delivery and collectionservice, has extended its service to the rest of the world by using TNT’s worldwide deliverynetwork to help its clients reach consumers at home in more than 200 countries.
HDN said it has already successfully launched the service with a number of clients includingShop Direct Group, the leading online retailer. It is now being extended to other clients who willbe able to increase their sales volumes by reaching customers in areas where they were previouslyunable to deliver.
Brian Gaunt, chief executive of HDN, said: “This new partnership agreement with TNT willvastly improve the breadth of service that we can offer our retail clients, as well as bringingfantastic benefits to consumers who will now be able to order products online and have themdelivered to their homes wherever they may be in the world.
“We chose TNT Post Parcel Service Ltd. because we have an existing partnership with them inthe UK and have been impressed with their quality of service which matches our own focus oncustomer satisfaction,” he added.
“Both businesses have invested significantly in their systems over the last couple of yearsto improve parcel visibility and to provide greater convenience to their clients and customers. Aspart of our partnership we have both extended this system investment by joining our parcel trackingcapabilities together so that parcels can be followed wherever they are going across the globe.”
Gerrit Mastenbroek, Managing Director TNT Post Parcel Service Ltd, commented: “We havealready built a valuable relationship with HDN over several years now. We share the same customervalues and we are impressed with the innovative spirit at HDN. Therefore, TNT Post Parcel Service’scross border strategy will benefit greatly from the new partnership announced today.”
HDN delivers some 300,000 parcels daily to homes across the UK. TNT Post Parcel Service Ltd.is part of TNT Post that processes 16 million postal items (including 400,000 parcels) each day anddelivers to more than 7.6 million addresses in the Netherlands.
