Düsseldorf-based freesort GmbH opens new sorting centre in Leipzig
Leipzig, February 28, 2007, 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.
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