M & A wave of private express courier to seek strategic investors to play every day

Express industry consolidation wave of mergers and acquisitions business is clearly already begun. Daily Express and a number of Chinese and foreign enterprises are being contacted, and actively looking for strategic investors, the introduction of money.
Daily Express Inter-Sheng Zhan, chairman and CEO said today, as a private courier "second echelon" of every day, much-needed capital to expand investment and increase market share.
Inter-Sheng Zhan said that the object being contacted, including Hainan Airlines Group, headquartered in Shanghai, Grand China Logistics, but he said everything is uncertain, "there are many variables."
Inter-Sheng Zhan, said: "We are ideal for investors must have two characteristics: First, not a purely financial investment, make some money left in that; second, there must be sufficient funds." He said that at this stage want to sell, Many courier companies looking for funding, the funds want to enter this industry there are many, we have to interact together, a breakup, the possibility of collapse, according to every day, and now said it might be whom cooperation would have been premature.
Inter-Sheng Zhan said that the reason for seeking funding, not express delivery are not optimistic about the prospects for development of the industry who wanted to obtain money to leave. "Express industry, low prices, low-cost, low level of development of the state will not be too long, every day needs capital, increase investment, need to be to enhance competition in the next step." He said.
Express delivery industry, M & A Tide
2006 DTW Group will express business sold 32 billion Federal Express, the whole industry speechless. Last year, the entire stake sold to a courier in turn Sinotrans - DHL, according to financial and economic understanding of NetEase, the selling price of about 3 million yuan, the whole price of a courier's shareholders are very satisfied.
An industry, researchers, said: "As far as I know, this industry of private companies, in addition to good luck, ZJS, tact, Shen Tong that several large companies are looking for several other funds. Future development trend of dispersed continuing concentration of industry, the strong Hengqiang, the share of small companies will be increasingly less a year or two selling prices may be much lower. "
STO De-Jun Chen, chairman of the annual meeting in 2009, the company said that after several years of development, followed by the courier industry will usher in a wave of mergers and acquisitions, he said that before the development of business and the market as "horse", the next to "ride Tiger, "Tiger is the capital, mergers and acquisitions.
This stage, the Express object of the sale, in addition to the difficult access to the Chinese market, four express delivery giants - FeDex, UPS, TNT and DHL addition, some large enterprises have entered into their field of vision. HNA Group, one of the seven sections - a subsidiary of Grand China Logistics Logistics plates are also involved.
"Grand China Logistics was established in 2006 and since, shipbuilding, shipping, air cargo business has, but the whole industry chain has not yet improved.'s Yangtze River Express air cargo company, is currently a lot of courier companies have rented from him the cargo hold, the sky the aircraft, and then have a ground delivery network and can effectively integrate resources at its disposal, which may express delivery company that they acquired the reason why. "
2010-03-16 Source: China World Logistics Network