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Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG / Miscellaneous/Miscellaneous
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Leipzig, February 28, 2007
Düsseldorf-based freesort GmbH opens new sorting centre in Leipzig
Further sorting centres planned
freesort GmbH, Düsseldorf, is officially opening its new branch in Leipzig
on March 1, 2007. It is the fifth branch of the Düsseldorf company, only
established in 2005, which collects outgoing post from business customers,
sorts them in its branches by post code and supplies them to a Deutsche
Post AG letter centre for delivery. The Leipzig sorting centre is located
in direct proximity to the Deutsche Post AG letter centre in
Leipzig-Radefeld and currently employs six staff. It is intended to
increase the number of employees to 12 to 15 when the number of customers
increases as planned. Currently freesort Leipzig works for companies such
as MTG Miettreuhandgesellschaft, Cyclone Fahrradkurier or OverNight GbR.
freesort GmbH is a company of the listed Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG in
Birkenwerder/ Brandenburg.
'We are happy to now also be in Leipzig and to offer companies in Saxony
our services and the resulting saving on postal costs', said freesort
Managing Director, Christian Theisen, on the occasion of the official
opening of the branch. 'We are thus successfully continuing our expansion
in important German conurbations.' After establishing sorting centres in
Düsseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt/Main and Hamburg, and now also Leipzig, new
locations are to be opened in Stuttgart, Hanover and Munich this year, with
plans being made for Berlin and Nuremburg.
About freesort GmbH:
Located in Düsseldorf, freesort GmbH is a provider of consolidation
services in Germany independent of the Post Office. For business customers
with more than 500 letters of outgoing mail a day, it offers collection of
the post several times a day from the customer, sorting of all letters by
postal code, consolidation to large delivery packages and delivery to one
of the Deutsche Post AG receiving centres. For this value-added service,
Deutsche Post AG grants freesort discounts on the postage charge, staggered
by volume. Regulated by the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur),
this reduction is between 3% and 21%. freesort GmbH passes on this discount
to its customers and invoices a service fee for the services provided. In
the 2006 fiscal year ending on December 31, freesort processed
approximately 42 million letters.
With 67 employees (December 31), 46 of whom are severely handicapped,
revenues of EUR 2.5 million were generated. For its services in respect to
the integration of severely handicapped persons into working life, the
company received the Hessian State Prize for exemplary employment and
integration of severely handicapped persons in 2006. freesort was founded
in March 2005 as the first commercial consolidator in Germany by the
current Managing Directors Christian Theisen und Martin Swart and commenced
operations in August the same year. Since the beginning of November 2006,
the post services provider specialising in franking and inserting machines,
Francotyp-Postalia, has had a participation in freesort.
Should you have any questions, please contact:
Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG
Media Relations
Telefon: +49 (0)3303 525 777
Telefax: +49 (0)3303 537 077 77
E-Mail: ir@francotyp.com
Postal address:
Triftweg 21-26
16547 Birkenwerder
Deutschland
Contact:
Hartmut Schumacher
Brunswick Group GmbH
Telephone: +49 69 24 00 55 19
Telefax: +49 69 24 00 55 55
E-Mail: hschumacher@brunswickgroup.com
DGAP 28.02.2007
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Language: English
Issuer: Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG
Triftweg 21-26
16547 Birkenwerder Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)3303 525 777
Fax: +49 (0)3303 53 70 77 77
E-mail: ir@francotyp.com
WWW: www.francotyp.com
ISIN: DE000FPH9000
WKN: FPH900
Indices:
Listed: Amtlicher Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in
Berlin-Bremen, Stuttgart, München, Düsseldorf
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