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  • The Healthy Chef partners with Quantium Solutions to expand into APAC

    The Healthy Chef partners with Quantium Solutions to expand into APAC

    Quantium Solutions, a leading end-to-end logistics service provider in Australia, has announced a partnership with The Healthy Chef, a company founded by internationally lauded chef, nutritionist and award-winning cookbook author Teresa Cutter. The partnership will help the Australian business expand its eCommerce presence in the Asia Pacific, and it is also the first in the Australian food industry for Quantium Solutions.

    Owned by Singapore Post, Quantium Solutions is an established eCommerce logistics solutions provider in the Asia Pacific, operating in 19 markets, and handling every touch point of their partners’ supply chain process, from delivery to fulfilment. It enables major eCommerce companies – including some of the world’s largest fashion and beauty brands, and now, the Australian food industry – to expand their footprint globally.

    Founder of The Healthy Chef, Teresa Cutter is one of Australia’s leading authorities on healthy cooking. She is also known internationally, having designed menus and recipes around the world for InterContinental Hotels Group, and publishing a weekly column for Time Magazine in the USA. Dedicated to improving the health of individuals, Teresa launched The Healthy Chef eCommerce site in 2012 to sell organic, wholefood nutritional products and her bestselling cookbooks to Australians and overseas customers. Since its launch, the eCommerce store has seen consistent year-on-year growth in its online orders.

    The Healthy Chef enlisted Quantium Solutions to help the business take its popular products, such as Whey Protein Isolate and Organic Pea Protein, to more customers overseas. Quantium Solutions will handle its warehousing, packaging and delivery of orders across Australia, New Zealand and around the world.

    Teresa Cutter, Founder of The Healthy Chef, said: “Our customers are our priority, so it’s important that they receive their order quickly and effectively. With Quantium Solutions an order can now take two to three days to reach our customers in the Asia Pacific. If there are any issues with deliveries, we can count on someone there to rectify the situation immediately. Having Quantium Solutions as part of our team is reassuring and enables us to expand with outstanding service.”

    Per Gustafsson, Australia and New Zealand General Manager at Quantium Solutions, said: “We are very excited to have The Healthy Chef onboard as they are our first customer from the food industry. Having worked with major hotels around the world, Teresa has insights to the demands and buying power of overseas destinations. Also, Australia’s proximity to leading eCommerce markets like China, Singapore, and Southeast Asia, makes it ideal for Australian brands to take their products to larger and more lucrative markets. With a well-established network across the Asia Pacific, Quantium Solutions is able to help brands like The Healthy Chef expand overseas.”

  • How a local logistics-retailer partnership boosted sales volumes from the Asian markets

    How a local logistics-retailer partnership boosted sales volumes from the Asian markets

    The lucrative Asian e-commerce market is growing fast, with sales in the Asia-Pacific region having increased by 31 per cent in 2017 to $1.349 trillion – 83 per cent of which came from China. A leading e-commerce logistics provider is helping one of Australia’s largest online retailers expand its presence into these markets.

    Quantium Solutions is one of Australia’s major end-to-end logistics providers – delivery, mailing, warehousing and fulfilment. Owned by Singapore Post, Quantium Solutions operates in 19 markets and is a key logistics market leader in the Asia-Pacific. It enables major e-commerce companies – including some of Australia’s largest fashion and beauty brands – to move their products around the world.

    Quantium Solutions’ warehousing volume is steadily increasing, growing 21 per cent last year, on the back of stronger demand from local companies looking to take advantage of the e-commerce growth in Asia. Its services that connect the Asia-Pacific e-commerce markets grew to 35 per cent of its revenue in 2017.

    One such local e-commerce company is MySale Group, which owns 24 websites across 8 countries including OzSale, TopBuy, DealsDirect and oo.com.au. Through its international services, Quantium Solutions has helped MySale Group grow its revenue in Asia, by providing a seamless shipping solution into the Philippines market, and helping it expand further into Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong.

    As the exclusive logistics partner of Mysale Group in Asia, Quantium Solutions helps distribute, process and return all of MySale Group’s merchandise from around the world to and from customers in Asia.

    Quantium Solutions is also the e-commerce logistics provider of choice for Clarins Australia, a leading international premium skincare brand. Quantium Solutions is the heart of Clarins’ e-commerce solution in Australia, offering state-of-the-art warehousing, order packing and domestic distribution. Over the last two years, Quantium Solutions has demonstrated its agility and ability to scale by supporting Clarins Australia’s rapid e-commerce growth.

    Per Gustafsson, Australia and New Zealand General Manager at Quantium Solutions, says: “Quantium Solutions is ideally positioned as the gateway to Asia for Australian e-commerce businesses wanting to reach the world’s largest e-commerce market. With fulfilment centres around the world, including in competitive and lucrative markets like Singapore and Malaysia, Quantium Solutions helps Australian e-commerce businesses expand in Asia. With our well-established delivery eco-system and full suite of customised fulfilment and delivery solutions, we are the leading end-to-end delivery provider in the Asia-Pacific region.”

     

     

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  • SingPost GD Express sale to boost eCommerce

    SingPost GD Express sale to boost eCommerce

    Singapore Post (SingPost) has sold off part of its stake in GD Express (GDEX) for S$78.4 million (US$55.88 million) and will use the proceeds to drive global growth for its eCommerce logistics.

    This is a net gain of S$64 million – about five times return on the initial investment.

    Yamato Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese transportation and forwarding group Yamato Holdings, has bought the 137,418,000 shares.

    Proceeds from the SingPost GD Express sale will be reinvested into its eCommerce services and networks in the US, Europe, China and the rest of Asia Pacific, in line with the group’s strategy to continue strengthening its integrated end-to-end eCommerce logistics, including front-end web management, warehousing and fulfilment, last-mile delivery and international freight-forwarding.
    SingPost deputy group CEO Mervyn Lim says the group is gearing up “on an accelerated path” to becoming a global leader in end-to-end eCommerce logistics.

    “This deal gave us a good return on our investment and also boosted our available resources to drive SingPost’s eCommerce logistics growth as it pivots into the US with the recent investments inTradeGlobal and Jagged Peak.”
    With interlinked systems with GDEX, the group will continue to reap business synergies with the added uplift Yamato brings to GDEX.

    “Collaborations and partnerships are vital to SingPost as we connect the dots in building a global eCommerce logistics ecosystem,” says Lim. “We continue to work with strategic partners in Malaysia and the rest of Southeast Asia while leveraging the Quantium Solutions commercial network, as well as those of our associated companies, to reinforce the ecosystem we are building.”

    SingPost now holds a 11.2 per cent strategic stake in GDEX and retains its board seat.

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  • SingPost invests in Hong Kong ventures

    SingPost invests in Hong Kong ventures

    SingPost has revealed investments in two Hong Kong companies as it continues its aggregation of interests in eCommerce and logistics businesses in the broader Asian region.

    SingPost subsidiary Quantium Solutions Holdings has spent HK$8 million (about $1.5 million) acquiring 1 million new shares in E Link Station, representing about 50 per cent of the business. Founded last May, E Link Station is creating “a rapidly expanding network of self-collection parcel service points”, a concept with similarities to SingPost’s POPStations across the island state.

    “ELink… is an extension of how we approach parcel deliveries elsewhere in many parts of the world – that is, we give customers flexibility through multiple channels that include locker storage and redemption centres,” explained Dr Wolfgang Baier, group CEO of SingPost.

    The second, larger deal sees SingPost take a 33 per cent stake in Morning Express & Logistics for HK$39.6 million (S$7.2 million). ME provides logistics, documents and parcel delivery services in Hong Kong. The Singaporean company has an option to take a further 33 per cent stake for the same amount if certain terms and conditions are fulfilled.

    “Morning Express gives us a strong last-mile and parcels capability in Hong Kong and extends our eCommerce value chain there, adding on to our warehousing, freight forwarding and front-end eCommerce,” said Baier.

    “As a company, Morning Express has 28 years in the logistics business and they are led by a professional management whose thinking is remarkably similar to ours.”

    Baier said Hong Kong, as a gateway to China, is a priority market for SingPost and a node in its pan-Asian network through which it serves its customers and partners.

    SingPost is 14.51 per cent owned by Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba Group.

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