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| Geopost SA | |
| Formerly | DPDgroup (2015–2023) |
| Type | Limited |
| Industry | Courier |
| Founded | 1999 in Paris, France[1] |
| Headquarters | Issy-les-Moulineaux, France |
Areas served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Yves Delmas (CEO) |
| Services | Parcel delivery Express mail freight forwarding Third-party logistics |
| Revenue |  €15.8 billion (2024)[2] |
| Owner | La Poste |
Number of employees | 55,000 (2024)[2] |
| Subsidiaries | DPD BRT Chronopost CitySprint Seur Speedy AD Jadlog Ninja Van (40%) DTDC (42%) |
| Website | geopost |
Geopost SA (formerly DPDgroup) is a French multinational logistics company and an international parcel delivery service for sorter compatible parcels based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.[3] Until 2015 DPD stood for Dynamic Parcel Distribution. Its brands are DPD, Chronopost, Seur, Speedy AD and BRT. The company is based in France and operates mainly in the express road-based market. Geopost is owned and operated by La Poste, the French state-owned postal service.[4]
Geopost services are available in Europe, Asia, South Africa, India, Brazil and several other countries, either directly or through partnerships.
In 2024, Geopost delivered 2.1 billion parcels worldwide and achieved revenues of €15.8 billion.[5]
Geopost bought the UK-based Parceline (now DPD UK) and Ireland's Interlink (now DPD Ireland) parcel service in November 2000, for around $277 million.[6]
In 2001, Geopost became the main shareholder of DPD, a company created in 1977 in Aschaffenburg, West Germany (Deutscher Paketdienst until January 2008, then Dynamic Parcel Distribution).[7] In the same year, Geopost rebranded Parceline as DPD, completing the transition in March 2008.
Geopost then made successive acquisitions:
In 2015, Geopost combined its DPD, Chronopost and Seur brands under one umbrella: DPDgroup.[9] On this occasion, Exapaq became DPD France and the logo of Chronopost was modified to show it was part of DPDgroup.
In 2018, the stake in the SEUR network was increased to 94% and DPDgroup acquired a minority stake in Ninja Van, a specialist in last-mile services in Southeast Asia.[10]
In 2019, DPDgroup became the major shareholder in BRT by increasing its share in the capital to 85%,[4] acquired a majority stake in Lenton, the Asian-based cross-border service provider[11] and entered into an agreement with the logistics company in the Czech Republic and Slovakia Geis Parcel.[12]
In 2020, DPDgroup increased its stake to 98% in Jadlog in Brazil.[13][better source needed]
In 2023, GeoPost/DPDgroup rebranded as Geopost, replacing the company’s logo and substituting a lower-case p in the name.[14][15]
Geopost operates in the light-weight parcel delivery market (less than 31.5 kg), which is typically referred to as the “CEP” market (courier, express and parcel).
The CEP market differs from courier services (that do not require a sorting centre) and from freight (that requires several people or equipment to handle the parcels).
Geopost operates in the different sub-segments of the CEP market, which are defined according to the following criteria:
Geopost mainly operates in Europe, with a direct presence in 24 countries:
The company also operates through joint ownership and commercial partnerships in other European countries such as Nova Poshta in Ukraine,[18] PostNord in the Nordic countries,[19] and Yurtiçi Kargo in Turkey, which it GeoPost has partly owned since 2007.
Outside of Europe, Geopost operates:
Since the beginning of 2022, the company has been chaired by CEO Yves Delmas, who is also Executive Vice-president of La Poste Groupe.[21]
Geopost's strategy is to develop its business in several lines:
In 2012, the company committed itself to carbon-neutral deliveries. CO2 emissions are gradually being reduced and offset, through support for renewable energy projects in India and Brazil. In 2019, DPDgroup reduced its CO2 emissions generated by road transport by 14% per parcel compared to 2013.
Offset of the remaining transport emissions is done by purchasing carbon credits. DPDgroup's investment represents more than 1% of the global voluntary carbon offset market in 2019.[25]
For inner-city deliveries, DPDgroup has implemented smart urban delivery initiatives. Since October 2019, Chronopost France has been operating 100% green deliveries in Paris, thanks to low-emission vehicles and urban depots.[26] In autumn 2018, DPD UK's first urban depot opened in London[27] and now 700 electric vehicles are deployed in the United Kingdom, to form the largest UK green livery.[28] The company's green fleet and urban depots are in line with London's Ultra Low Emission Zone standards. Deliveries by alternative vehicles are also operated in Dublin,[29] Hamburg,[30] Madrid, Tallinn and Warsaw.
In November 2019, DPDgroup launched a Group-wide air quality monitoring programme measuring air quality with sensors on vans and Pickup points.[31] Data are provided for free to cities & citizens.
In October 2020, DPDgroup announced its commitment to deliver 225 of the largest European cities with zero- and low-emission delivery means.[32]
In February 2018, DPD faced widespread criticism in the UK due to the treatment of Don Lane, one of its couriers. Lane had previously been fined £150 by DPD UK for attending a medical appointment to treat his diabetes and ultimately collapsed and died of the condition. According to Lane's widow, he had missed appointments with specialists because he felt under pressure to cover his route. Frank Field MP, Chairman of the House of Commons' Work and Pensions Select Committee, said "DPD have been told time and again that their punitive regime is totally unjust, particularly as their workers are labelled ‘self-employed’. Such mistreatment of workers smacks of sweated labour from the Victorian era." In March 2018, DPD UK announced that they would be offering all of their UK workers the opportunity to be classed as employees, and that they would abolish the fines for missing work. Plans were announced in March 2018 to create a DPD Driver Code later in the year, and to introduce a "self-employed worker" contract, which will offer drivers an alternative to working as a direct employee of DPD UK or working with the company on a self-employed basis.[33]
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Geopost SA (formerly DPDgroup) is a French multinational logistics company and an international parcel delivery service for sorter compatible parcels based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Until 2015 DPD stood for Dynamic Parcel Distribution. Its brands are DPD, Chronopost, Seur, Speedy AD and BRT. The company is based in France and operates mainly in the express road-based market. Geopost is owned and operated by La Poste, the French state-owned postal service. Geopost services are available in Europe, Asia, South Africa, India, Brazil and several other countries, either directly or through partnerships. In 2024, Geopost delivered 2.1 billion parcels worldwide and achieved revenues of €15.8 billion.
Wolfgang Lehmacher, born in 1960 in Bonn, West Germany, is an international expert in supply chain, transport, and logistics. His career spans executive positions and board memberships. Lehmacher was president and CEO of GeoPost Intercontinental, the global investment arm of French La Poste, in numerous senior leadership positions at TNT, and as director and head of Supply Chain, and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum. His expertise includes advising companies of all sizes and supporting organizations such as RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society, Singapore, The European Freight and Logistics Leaders Forum, Brussels, and Global:SF in San Francisco. As a thought leader, business mentor, and technology advocate, Lehmacher actively contributes to the public discourse through writing and frequent speaking engagements worldwide, like the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Global Leadership Lecture Series at MIT, and the IfM at University of Cambridge. Lehmacher's commitment to sustainable practices is evident in his advocacy for sustainability and the circular economy. He is involved in EU-funded projects like CIRPASS, a digital product passport initiative, and BALTIC-FIT, which aims to enable maritime transport in the Baltic Sea Region to meet the 'Fit for 55' decarbonization targets. He also serves on the Ethical Committee for Dynex Moonshots, guiding the world's only accessible neuromorphic quantum computing cloud. His leadership in the field is further exemplified by his role as lead author of the "Practical Playbook for Maritime Decarbonisation," underscoring his commitment to sustainable industry practices. In collaboration with experts and academics, Lehmacher pioneers innovative research methods, including the Claros study, which utilizes ChatGPT to generate expert-validated insights into maritime industry trends. The mentor at Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale is a founding member of the Logistikweisen, a logistics expert committee under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry BMDV, and NEXST, a think tank initiated by Reefknot, Kuehne & Nagel and SGInnovate in Singapore. Lehmacher's influence extends to major publications such as the Financial Times, Nikkei Asian Review, and Business Insider. His authored books, published by Springer Gabler and others, cover a wide range of topics from logistics' impact on daily life to the disruption of supply chains by startups and emerging and advanced technologies, and numerous papers exploring the intersection of technology and logistics, including blockchain applications in ports and AI's role in reducing urban congestion.
La Poste (French pronunciation: [la pɔst]) is a postal service company in France, operating in Metropolitan France, the five French overseas departments and regions and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Under bilateral agreements, La Poste also has responsibility for mail services in Monaco through La Poste Monaco and in Andorra alongside the Spanish company Correos. The company was created in 1991 following the split of the French PTT, a government department responsible for mail, telegraph and telephone services in France. The PTT, founded in 1879, was then divided between La Poste, which became responsible for postal service, and France Télécom (nowadays Orange) for the telecommunication services. France Télécom was immediately privatised but La Poste has remained a public company. However, in 1997 EU directive 97/67/EC required member states to "fully open the postal sector to competition", with the result that the French government allowed private postal service companies in 2005 and transformed La Poste into a public-owned company limited by shares in 2010. La Poste is part of the Groupe La Poste, which also comprises a bank and insurance company (La Banque Postale), a logistics service company (Geopost) and a mobile network operator (La Poste Mobile). Although its postal activities are declining because of the development of the Internet, they still represented half of the company's income. Other activities, such as parcel delivery and banking, are on the rise. The two represented respectively a quarter of the company's income in 2017.
Ritchie John Torres (born March 12, 1988) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served on the New York City Council from 2014 to 2020. Torres served as the New York City Council member for the 15th district from 2014 to 2020. Torres chaired the Committee on Public Housing and was a deputy majority leader. As chair of the Oversight and Investigations Committee, he focused on predatory lending associated with taxi medallion procurement and the city's Third Party Transfer Program. In July 2019, Torres announced his bid for New York's 15th congressional district to succeed Representative José E. Serrano. The district is one of the most Democratic-leaning congressional districts in the country. Torres won the November 2020 general election and assumed office on January 3, 2021. This made Mondaire Jones and him the first openly gay Black men elected to Congress. It also made Torres the first openly gay Afro-Latino elected to Congress. Torres served as one of nine co-chairs of the Congressional Equality Caucus (previously known as Congressional LGBTQ+ Caucus) and as one of the co-chairs of the Congressional Albanian Issues Caucus in the 117th United States Congress. Torres is known for his pro-Israel advocacy and has faced criticism from progressives opposed to Israel's conduct in the Gaza war.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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