DPD mourns founding partner Horst Walter Schröter
Aschaffenburg / Berlin, 17April 2013 – International parcel and express service provider DPD is mourning the death of Horst Walter Schröter,one of its founding partnerswho died on 6 April at the age of 85. With his Zeitfracht group of companies he was one of the 18 German freight forwarders who founded the DPD parcel service in 1976. Zeitfracht is the only founding freight forwarder which still has a participation in DPD Dynamic Parcel Distribution GmbH & Co. KG.
"For more than thirty years Horst Walter Schröter was one of the personalities who shaped our company", states DPD CEO Arnold Schroven. "He was not only one of the founders of DPD, but to the very last he contributed a great deal to the company with his experience and ideas, both as a shareholding partner and member of the supervisory board. In Horst Walter Schröter DPD has lost a unique entrepreneur who will have a valued place in our grateful memories. Our deepest sympathy goes to his loved ones."
The establishment of the ZeitfrachtGroupwith its headquarters in Stendal, the town of his birth, was Horst Walter Schröter's life's work. DPD Zeitfracht GmbH & Co. KG operates two DPD depots in Berlin together with a DPD depot in Raunheim, Hessen, which serves the entire Frankfurt conurbation. The group has a workforce of around 1000 and includes both the Zeitfrachtfreight forwarding business and the bus company Altmark Bus GmbH.
The Zeitfracht Group continues to hold 6.21% of the shares in DPD. In June 2011 Horst Walter Schrötertransferred a large part of his shareholding to his niece JasminSchröter.
About DPD
With the shipment of 2.5 million parcels a day DPD is a leading international provider of parcel and express services. The company has the most efficient road network in Europe and delivers to 230 countries worldwide. Customers can choose services from an extensive product range of national and international parcel and express services for business and home deliveries.
Every parcels sent via DPD’s network are carbon neutral in major European markets as of July 2012. This Total Zero principle means carbon neutral parcel shipping at no extra cost to the customer. Total Zero, DPD’s new carbon neutrality commitment, demonstrates the company’s ongoing efforts to reduce its environmental impact on the planet.
A workforce of 24,000 and 18,000 vehicles operate at more than 800 locations. The majority shareholder in DPD with 83,32 % shareholding is the GeoPost Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French Groupe La Poste. With a consolidated turnover of 4.026 billion euros in the year 2012 GeoPost is currently Europe's second-largest provider of express parcel services.
In Germany DPD is the market leader in national and international B2B parcel services. It has 75 depots country-wide and over 4,000 DPD Parcel-Shops, with a workforce of 7,500 and 7,000 vehicles in daily operation on behalf of the customers in B2B and B2C parcel shipping.
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