Annual report 2004 (English) - PDF 3546K - Imperial Tobacco

JUAN RIZO
Chief Operating Offi cer, Logista,
Spain and Portugal
“ In Portugal, Logista holds
the front-ranking position
in logistics services and is
a leader in the newspaper
and magazine distribution.
sector.”
New platforms were inaugurated in Pamplona,
San Sebastián and Tarragona, and construction began
on an ultra-modern facility near Madrid. All of these
improvements will enable Integra2 to continue to
optimize the quality of its industrial parcel delivery
service and to satisfy growing demand.
Courier service
Nacex, which ranks among the leading Spanish courier
companies, continued to expand and confi rm its solid
growth record of the past few years, with new agencies
opened in, among other cities, Madrid, Alicante,
Tarragona and Lisbon. The new agency in Portugal
was the fi rst step in a process that will continue in
2005. With 9.7 million deliveries, 15 major platforms
throughout the Iberian Peninsula and 264 franchisees,
Nacex is the third-ranking company in its sector.
Development of logistics resources was ongoing in 2004,
with a new EUR 2 million platform inaugurated in July in
Barcelona, and Nacex also started a franchisee training
program that will be ongoing in 2005.
Long-distance transportation
Logista handles this activity through Logesta,
a company specialized in long-distance transportation
management. In 2004, Logesta’s customer base grew
considerably with a 56% increase in the number of
shipments managed, bringing the total to 105,000.
Underpinned by these good results, Logesta is wellpositioned
for its alliance with Basegar, one of the
Arcelor Group’s principal road transportation companies
in Spain. In 2004, Logesta initiated moves to merge its
parcel-bulking activity with that of Integra2. In 2005,
the company’s business outside Spain will expand
through a contract with Philip Morris covering
transportation services from the Netherlands and
Germany to Italy and Spain.
Publications and books
Acquisition of the Cyberpoint software company in
early-2004 provided Logista with a key position in
Spain’s news-stand modernization and computerization
sector. Its specialized management program, Kios 2001,
has already been installed in close to 1,000 stands
throughout the country.
In the book logistics segment, Logista continued
to upgrade its 40,000-square-meter platform in
Guadalajara in 2004. A total of 25 million books were
stocked at the facility during the year for distribution
throughout Spain, and four new major publishing
companies joined Logista’s customer portfolio, which
now boasts 22 clients.
Promotional logistics
With its 2004 acquisition of Geopost Logistics, Logista
reinforced its presence in the promotional- and
marketing-materials sector. In Spain, Logista’s activities
in this specialized area have averaged strong 30%
annual growth over the past three years.
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