“I am impressed not only by the DPD performance in Romania and its double-digit growth year by year, but also by the very dynamic market,” Yves Delmas told ZF in an interview.
The growth in Romania lately has been higher than the European average, and online commerce is developing really fast in this country, he added.
Yves Delmas has an over 20-year experience in the courier service sector, which he gained in companies like Chronopost in France and Spain, TNT Express, SEUR and GeoPost.
GeoPost groups all the express subsidiaries of La Poste, the French postal company. La Poste also owns Mediapost Hit Mail in Romania, a direct marketing company. Its courier service brands are SEUR, Chronopost, Interlink Express and DPD.
DPD operates in Romania via Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD), which posted EUR21 million revenue last year. DPD Romania is the third largest courier service provider in the country, the company said.
The plans for the next five years are really ambitious, the size of the business in Romania should double. Looking at this year’s trend, it seems like an easy job, Yves Delmas said. DPD Romania is a good member of the international DPD team, it has a very good image on the market and now has to focus on improving the offer to the B2C and international segments, but the Geopost official is optimistic about DPD Romania’s position on the market in the coming years.
Yves Delmas was in Romania for the inauguration of the newest logistics hub of the company, in Mogosoaia, a EUR1.5 million investment. The hub is part of a broader investment plan for the country. This is his first visit to Romania, a market where the group has ambitious growth plans. DPD wants to become market leader in Eastern Europe.
The Romanian market is interesting not just because its geographic location or the size of the country, but also because of the growth potential DP sees here on both the B2C and international delivery segment, the official says. The courier service market reached EUR370 million last year, according to DPD Romania’s previous estimates.
Romania is lagging behind countries like UK, Germany, France and even Poland when it comes to the number of people who use the Internet, buy products online, the number of online transactions or the percentage of online sales in the total sales of retailers, which have a direct impact on the parcel delivery market.
Once these indicators improve, Romania will see some good years. In some countries retailers’ online sales account for 15% of their business, while in others for 2%, which is why he is optimistic about the future of the courier service market in Romania, Yves Delmas said.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)