The Business Units Danzas Eurocargo (European land transport) and Danzas Solutions (supply chain management solutions) will be integrated into DHL.

Danzas AEI Intercontinental (air and ocean freight) will continue to operate from Basel under the name DHL Danzas Air & Ocean.

- All services for Danzas customers will remain in full force during the transition phase and in the restructured organization - Danzas Head Office will remain in Basel but be downsized; Danzas still a legally separate company

As part of its groupwide "STAR" value creation program, (The programme aims to ensure the complete integration of the Group companies DHL, Danzas and Deutsche Post Euro Express.), Deutsche Post World Net is reorganizing its activities in the areas of Express (now DHL and Euro Express) and Logistics
(now Danzas). In the past there has been some overlapping among the group companies, especially in the realm of European land transport. Bundling activities under the DHL brand will make it possible to optimize the transportation networks, expand customer services, and reduce duplication in the service functions.

The group will fully integrate all companies in the Express and Logistics areas under the DHL umbrella. DHL in future will act as a single brand for all Group Express and Logistics activities. Starting in 2003, it will combine the Group's domestic and international parcels and express business as well as its logistics activities under a single umbrella.

In the future, Danzas AEI Intercontinental will operate under the new brand name DHL Danzas Air & Ocean. The current CEO of the Danzas Group, Renato Chiavi, will become CEO of DHL Danzas Air & Ocean headquartered in Basel. The present Head Office in Basel will be downsized to accommodate the management of DHL Danzas Air & Ocean as well as certain support functions.

The new DHL management team will now start developing the concrete models for the future. Operations will be switched to the new structure on April 1, 2003.

For Renato Chiavi, it is perfectly clear that this far reaching change represents a big challenge for the Danzas organization. "I am convinced that intensive cooperation within the group is the only solution for the future," he declares. "But I am also well aware that this is a very trying moment for our people. Some will be confronted with the need to move house or with a reorientation. For all of us, the nearly complete disappearance of the traditional Danzas brand name is very sad indeed - even though we know that the worldwide DHL brand provides a strong basis for continued growth in this hard-fought market. For many of our people, too, attractive new opportunities will arise within a fascinating group."

Benefits for the customers

Danzas customers will benefit most of all. At first, nothing will change for them. Up to April 1, 2003, all Danzas Business Units (Solutions, Intercontinental, Eurocargo) will continue operating as usual. Once the integration is complete, Danzas customers will profit from the expanded range of services offered by the new DHL. They will have just a single contact - DHL - for the whole spectrum of Express and Logistics services, from parcel to heaviest tonnage. Truly service from a single source.

"DHL Danzas Air & Ocean will in any case offer greater capabilities than the old Danzas did before it was taken over by Deutsche Post," notes Renato Chiavi.