Will UPS have dedicated DHL flights?

[AV8OR]

The reason for the separate ramp may be that UPS wants DHL to maintain a branded presence in the US in order to avoid problems with scope when the joint product moves overseas.

Right up until the US infrastructure is gone. And then, there won't be a DHL brand when UPS tells DHL, "Did we say a billion dollars? Mmm sorry it's really gonna take about 3 Billion to move your freight. Now if you'll just sign right here, we'll get back to moving your freight."

If this deal goes through, and it most likely will, DHL's toast.

 

[shooter]

It's a done deal. The Germans will not change their minds.

Fisher said DHL is willing to explore options, but made it clear that it intends to move forward with the UPS deal.

http://www.whiotv.com/news/16634771/detail.html

My guess is that is the loose translation they printed. I think the real translation is something like: "If you want to waste your breath, go ahead and talk. But I am going forward with this deal...". Now for the part that they all left out: "...even if it kills us".

Brought to you by; Hans, Fritz, & Horst. :laugh:

Guten Tag!

 

[Whistlin' Dan]

A DHL "branded" ramp?

Maybe not the ramp, per se, but the product. Maintaining a unique identity to the product, aside from the markings on the boxes and waybills, is probably necessary to keep UPS' unions from crying "Foul!" The immediate loss of jobs for Astar/ABX here will be matched by slow/no growth for IPA guys overseas.


I can't see any other reason UPS would want to climb into bed with DHL on this deal. Let's face it...customers have been migrating over to UPS and FedEx in droves ever since the merger. Why would they bail out their biggest International competitor? All they had to do was wait DHL out, and at some point they (or FedEX) would have had the business anyway.

UPS is not some magnanimous company. They see this as a win-win deal for them.

 

[shooter]

All they had to do was wait DHL out, and at some point they (or FedEX) would have had the business anyway.

UPS is not some magnanimous company. They see this as a win-win deal for them.

The experts already agree with you. But now its on a fast track.

Analysts suggest that the decision of DHL to pull back from the U.S. express market may help FedEx grab a bigger share of the business.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/06/17/ap5125928.html

 

[MACHTRANSDUCER]

The experts already agree with you. But now its on a fast track.



http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/06/17/ap5125928.html

add:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9eSWNGbnMc0&feature=related

 

[MACHTRANSDUCER]

add:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9eSWNGbnMc0&feature=related

oops sorry i meant this:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/17/buffett-inbev-bid-markets-equity-cx_je_0617markets06.html

foreign ownership of Anheuser-Busch is OK?