Remote bus – Flixbus buys Fernbusgeschäft Deutsche Post – Süddeutsche.de

• Flixbus, the market leader in the remote bus market, accepts claims to be the Geschäfft competitor Postbus.
• The industry leaders want to achieve better on the merger seniors and families, and plans will be strengthened by the to drive the country’s coastline.

the German remote bus leader Flixbus takes over the business of the competitor Postbus. As of November, the first lines of the remote bus unit of Deutsche Post are to be integrated into the Flixbus network. That said Flixbus CEO André Schwämmlein the German Press Agency.

With the acquisition drives Flixbus its expansion ahead. Earlier this year, had the remote bus companies to figures from market research company Iges in Germany with a market share of 71 percent – Postbus 10 percent. Currently Flixbus moves to 900 goals, 450 of them in Germany. Postbus offers connections to 112 destinations, about 85 of them in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “With the acquisition of the public bus service, we shall strengthen aware our core business in Germany,” says Schwämmlein. Only the end of June had the remote bus provider acquired the British competitors Megabus and thus also expanded its European network.

buses will in future often approach the coast

To purchase price of Flixbus founders wanted no Provide information. The deal will but bring additional annual income of 15 to 20 million euros. Postbus had gone in November 2013 as the cooperation with the ADAC to the start. The Auto Club rose in November 2014 the project but again, the Post had operated further the business since alone.

In a first step, it’ll now important to adapt the timetables of both providers and improve the route network, said Schwämmlein. So far, parallel moving lines on compounds such as Munich-Berlin are to be reduced in favor of new targets. “We want, for example, hit the coast more frequently and expand the cross-border traffic, strengthen the regions and especially.” would benefit small towns that are not yet connected to the remote bus network.

Flixbus hopes new access to families and seniors

Flixbus hopes that the acquisition also new customer groups. “While we are addressing through our position especially a young, online-affine audiences, the Post has achieved through offline channels also seniors or families,” said Flixbus founder.

In addition, want Flixbus and Post Collaborate in the logistics. At present, the Bonn-based company is testing an express courier service between Hamburg and Berlin, in which DHL packages are shipped the same day with the remote bus. “We look at how we expand this service together with FlixBus” said the CEO of German postal Mobility, Joachim Wessels

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