Hermes is U.S. e-tailers in Europe to help break
Hermes is looking for a German manufacturer specializing in the management of the supply chain for large retailers and brands to more U.S. retailers who want to gain from the sale in Europe. The company provides U.S. traders access to the European market over the logistics and fulfillment services that serve all the countries on the continent.
"Hermes is now in a position where our range of services to U.S. retailers of services, the supply and quality control, international transportation and warehousing, construction and home to offer including delivery," says Hanjo Schneider, CEO of Hermes Europe. "We believe that 740 million Europeans, 364 million use the Internet regularly looking for online shopping offers around the world."
Hermes was founded in 1972 as a package service from its parent company, Germany-based e-retailer Otto Group. Hermes has about 11,000 employees. It is also the parent company of 12 firms with offices in 22 countries around the world and uses a network of logistics and fulfillment partners in Europe and other countries worldwide. The seller, who had a turnover of 1.8 billion euros ($ 2.2 billion) for the fiscal year-end results in late May, the company is primarily in Europe, but now wants to expand international activities, said a spokesman Hermes.
For retailers, this means the United States, Hermes could act as an international partner and access to Europe. States of the European Union's 27 member states together are now worth about 165 billion euros (200 billion U.S. $) to € monitor, with great potential for U.S. retailers.
U.S. retailer that can sell in Europe now benefit from Hermes understanding of Member States of the European Union as a German company with local presence in all European markets, said Hermes. For example, traders can use Hermes and sellers she has relationships with Asian manufacturers to produce products and find they have to be tested for quality and safety. Hermes is to arrange for the goods transported by ship or by plane to Europe and to organize local ground transportation to your own warehouse or customer and manage the delivery and returns. The seller may also help U.S. retailer, to develop the European e-commerce sites to accept payments online and call center.
"How has the goods to the customers has always been a specialty of Hermes," said a spokesman. "In Germany, only to ring door bells to 1.5 million every day by hand on plots of many [Hermes] customers.
Hermes has also recently added several new offerings, called into life including:
? The Package Store Great Britain and Russia are in stores, consumers can not make their packages, they have delivered to their home
? Order online package tracking
? Web site design
? Markets
? A platform products online fashion, fashion enthusiasts, the connection with international brands in the German retail sector.
The provider is already working with several retailers in the U.S., including QVC and Guthy-Renker.
Hermes has helped nearly 125 million QVC complete deliveries within Europe since 2004. QVC uses Hermes transport logistics, quality control and service delivery. QVC sells a TV, Internet, and since early 2012, mobile devices in Germany. The retailer has nearly 4,000 employees in Europe and around six million customers in Europe. It also operates two call centers and a logistics center in the country.
Hermes operates a platform within QVC distribution center in Warrington, Germany, said the QVC sends, there is more than 15 million packages per year to German customers, with a rate of about 11 000 an hour. Hermes also manages the delivery of QVC customers in Austria and Great Britain
Guthy-Renker, another customer in the U.S. retailer, which sells mainly Hermes, beauty care and spa products, operates a distribution center in the Netherlands, where he uses his Hermes ship products to customers in Germany and Austria. Alternatively, Guthy-Renker sent customers the opportunity to present their packages to have one of the Hermes Parcel Shop around 14,000 in Germany and Austria in 1500 Package Store.
"The reliability and fast delivery are the key ingredients for satisfied customers," said Matthias Epp, CEO of Guthy-Renker. "With Hermes, we can be sure that an average of 80% of our packages reach their destinations on the day from the warehouse."