Deutsche Post DHL is to shut down its loss-making unaddressed mail business in the Netherlandsin the latest pullout from the Dutch postal market.
The company, Interlanden, will stop trading on April 30, 2011, with the loss of 246 jobs. Asocial plan has been set up for the workers and they will get help in finding new jobs.
The closure is the result of a ‘strategic review’ which looked into all possible scenarios forthe company’s future, DP DHL announced. Deutsche Post DHL bought the company in two stages in 2002and 2004.
Interlanden, founded in 1969, provides advertising mail delivery across the Netherlands from itsthree centres at Apeldoorn, Eindhoven and Zoetermeer. Its revenues were not disclosed. According toinformation on its website, it distributes 3.2 billion advertising leaflets and 102 million freenewspapers a year.
The German company is already planning to sell its Dutch addressed mail company, Selektmail, toprivately-owned rival Sandd. The two pullout measures will leave the company only with itsinternational mail business, DHL Global Mail, operating in the Dutch postal market.
“DHL Global Mail will provide international mail services in the Netherlands for exports andimports and some added-value services,” a DP DHL spokeswoman told CEP-Research. The other DHLbusinesses in the country were not affected by the move, she stressed.
