Enabling sport and career to be combined: DPDsupports the "Junior Sportsmen and Women of the Year"for the eleventh time
From 2004 to 2014 DPDhas provided around 300 training grants worth over 600,000 euros in total
First prize goes to judoka Sappho Coban
DPD announces extension of its partnership withSporthilfe
Potsdam/Aschaffenburg, 13October 2014 – As partner to the Deutsche Sporthilfe foundationDPD is now supporting Germany's"Junior Sportsmen and Women of the Year" for the eleventh year in succession. With this campaignDeutsche Sporthilfepromotes top up-and-coming German sporting talent, and last FridayBoris Winkelmann, CEO of the international parcel and express service provider, presented the 2014 awards to the young sportspeople in Potsdam'sNikolaisaal.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony DPD CEO Boris Winkelmann stated: "I am proud that together with SporthilfeDPD has now been providing support for the next generation of sportsmen and women here in Germany for more than 10 years now". At the same time he announced the expansion of the company's cooperation with Sporthilfe: "In future we aim to continue our commitment and to extend it further."
Training grants for the "Junior Sportsmen and Women of the Year"
Promoting the "Junior Sportsmen and Women of the Year" is a central component of DPD's support for Sporthilfe. This year first prize in the individual category went to judoka Sappho Coban, who in2013 won Germany's first-ever junior world championship title in judo. Second place went to track cyclist Maximilian Dörnbach, with mountainbiker Lukas Baum taking third prize. In the team category theunder-21national hocky team came out on top. The special award in paralympic sports went to Anna-Lena Forster (Alpine skiing), while Linda Neumann (swimming) took the award for hearing-disabled sport.
All the sportswomen and sportsmen who received awards and nominations are provided by DPD with training grants to enable them to buy books or pay fees for their studies, for example.Since the year 2004 DPD has financed something like 300 training grants to a value of more than 600,000 euros. DPD CEO Boris Winkelmann explains: "The aim of our training grants is not just to provide support for tomorrow's model sportspeople, but also to help them combine their sporting and occupational careers."
As partner to Deutsche Sporthilfe DPD's commitment goes well beyond the "Junior Sportsmen and Women of the Year"competition. For example, with theSporthilfe fund-raising campaign "Dein Name für Deutschland" (Your Name for Germany) DPD is campaigning for greater support for Germany's up-and-coming and top sporting talents. In addition, as part of the "SprungbrettZukunft"(Springboard Future) initiative DPD is supporting parallel sporting and occupational careers with its so-called 'code-word application'process, which offers sportspeople theirown individual channel for making job applications, thus facilitating their access to work opportunities. In addition the Sporthilfe logo also appears on the over 8,000 delivery vehicles operated by DPD in Germany, ensuring that the logo is a familiar everyday sight on the country's roads.
Photo: Sappho Coban is the"Junior Sportswoman of the Year" 2014. DPD CEO Boris Winkelmann (right) and Dr. Michael Ilgner, Chairman of Sporthilfe (left) celebrate with Germany's first-ever junior world champion in judo.
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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 4.391 billion euros in the year 2013 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 more than 5,000 DPD ParcelShops, with a workforce of 7,500 and more than 8,000 vehicles in daily operation on behalf of the customers in B2B and B2C parcel shipping.
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