DPD Russia has signed an agreement as the logistics partner for the domestic multi-channel retailerENTER for deliveries within the country and also further expanded its regional network with four
new depots.Prior to cooperating with DPD, ENTER has been offering to customers two different options ofreceiving their orders within 1-2 days (except for furniture) including pick-up on their own orpersonal delivery by a DPD driver within 40 Russian cities.
Thanks to the new contract, residents of 48 other cities where no ENTER shops or parkingservices are available can also access 32,000 products of the retailer with a weight of up 31.5 kgfrom 14 different product categories including household and electronic appliances, health andbeauty products, furniture, to name a few. The delivery times range from three to ten days whilethe delivery price is determined by the partner company according to the agreement.
Vasily Mostizky, Marketing Director at ENTER, said: “We started to receive a significantnumber of incoming calls at our contact centre from regions that we cannot serve on our own interms of delivery. We have created a new way of shopping in Russia with more than 32,000 productsto be purchased in a convenient way. Residents of Perm, Ufa, Jekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Habarovskand other cities got interested in our services.
“We have been confronted with a choice: keeping the ‘last mile’ regulation (all contacts withour brand are effected through our specialists meaning delivering on our own) or making ENTERaccessible to a large number of Russians via partnerships with delivery providers. Our desire tomake residents in 40 Russian cities familiar with what we have created won,” he added.
Meanwhile, DPD is continuing expanding its regional network with four new offices inVolgodonsk, Kostroma, Norilsk and Sterlitamak.
The city of Kostroma is located on the Volga River, 300 km from Moscow, and has the status ofa historic city included in the Golden Ring of Russia. Kostroma features different industriesincluding machine engineering, timber manufacturing, polymer production, jewellery, food processingand printing.
The city of Volgodonsk in the Rostov region is one of the youngest cities in the south of thecountry and one of its most important power engineering centres. The leading industries inVolgodonsk are power engineering, atomic power engineering, furniture manufacturing, metallurgy andmanufacturing of thermal power stations equipment.
The city of Norilsk is located in the polar region, to the north of Krasnoyarsk region. It isone of the coldest cities in the world, with average annual temperatures as low as -16 C°. Norilskis the major centre for nonferrous metallurgy, copper mining, nickel, cobalt, and precious metals.
Sterlitamak is a large regional centre in the Republic of Bashkortostan, the second-largestin the region after Ufa. The main manufacturing industries represented there are engineering,chemical industry and food processing.
The economic potential of the four cities confirms the growing demand for transportation andlogistics services and high prospects for developing transport logistics there. The offices offerthe standard range of DPD services including time-definite delivery by 13:00, DPD Russia said.
