Yunda group*, a listed company in Shenzhen, China with a logistic service coverage in China of 90%, sending daily 12 million parcels (on peak days 40 million), holding a market value of 50,9 billion yuan (6,8 billion euro) a year has officially announced the Grand Opening of the Yunda Europe headquarters in the Netherlands on June 14 2017.
The establishment marks Yunda’s expansion plan in Europe. This strategic move is also in line with the “One belt, one road”, the initiative that President Xi proposed which provides interconnected logistics service. It opens up new paths, corporations & connectivity within the global economy. A new path of development to further meet and support the growing demand for cross-border e-commerce trade between China and Europe.
Therefore Yunda & NL Express proudly announced a strategic partnership, through the strenghts of both sides, this will provide Chinese enterprises and global consumers more opportunities to enter overseas markets.
At the Grand Opening Ceremony the director of the Yunda International Express, Mr. Guan, expresses his vision of the Yunda Europe headquarter; to improve its international express channels, to better serve the local Chinese in the Netherlands, to further expand the European local express delivery market, to offer the Chinese local express companies a high-quality, high efficiency & low cost operating models.
At the same time he enhanced the Yunda influence in the European market; strengthen the European Yunda branches with each other and improving the Yunda network in the European countries.
The director of NL Express Alex Kan also gave a humorous speech, the whole speech with “choice” as a topic to introduce the development of his career and the importance of opportunity in personal development. E.g.: “Some options will have a short impact on life, and some choices will have a permanent impact. So.. think well through before making your choices.” He also quoted the famous Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, said, “choosing the industry is like to choose means of transportation, whatever you choose has to suit you.”
Alex Kan continued with the choice he made in 2010, the choice to pursue his career in the Netherlands, to choose to do trade and then to select the logistics industry and then the establishment of NL Express became a fact. Nowadays he has his own IT departments and has continuously successfully pursued his acquisition of the technology company in Shanghai.
He finalized his speech that choice of Yunda choosing to establish the European headquarters in the Netherlands, and to start a strategic cooperation with NL Express, is the most well made choice, and he strongly believes that the cooperation will bring synergy to the entire company, Yunda and NL Express will achieve a win-win situation.
NL Express B.V., established in July 2013 in the Netherlands. The company provides professional logistics and delivery services. As one of the earliest and now the biggest logistics companies to China, NLE’s package service and container transportation solution is tailored to the needs of customers, and has won a good reputation among our customers. Since August 2015, NLE is headquartered in Nieuw Vennep, near the Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. The company has so far set up a branch in Germany and Italy; and on March 14, 2016 in Maastricht, which is the first branch in the Netherlands, which marks that NLE market size is further expanded.
During the opening ceremony, the organizers also provided wonderful songs and dances, martial arts performances and other programs. Scenes were lively, especially the performance given by the NLE team, singing “being thankful from the heart” has shown more than words, giving a vibration of positive, happy and harmonious, united corporate culture. All in all, it was a success, around 200 guests have attended the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Yunda headquarters in Europe.
* “Yun Da” brand was founded in August 1999, headquartered in Shanghai, January 18, 2017, Yunda has its shares on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (May 2017 shares: 002120).
