Company profile of Deutsche Post Direkt GmbH

Deutsche Post Direkt's four business units are as follows:

Through the address cleansing service provided by ADDRESSFACTORY private customer addresses are verified to ensure mail is delivered to the right person, household and building. As well as errors in postal addresses, naccurate first names and surnames are also corrected and forms of address and titles added. Duplicates are also identified and flagged up and current relocation addresses are added. Deutsche Post Direkt's comprehensive postal reference file with more than 190 million active and inactive addresses forms the basis for address matching. This file is maintained on an ongoing basis to ensure that it is complete and fully up to date in Germany. The DATAFACTORY products include street names, buildings and geo data which companies can incorporate directly into their applications, for example, into their CRM systems to maintain the addresses of customers and interested parties.

As part of address enhancement address lists are linked with relevant marketing and sales information. The microdialog microgeographic system in particular provides a wealth of data, for example on consumer behaviour, sociodemographics and living space. microdialog automotive and microdialog finance provide additional sector specific information on car ownership and financial services. Addresses can also be enhanced with microm Geo Milieus ^®, microm Limbic ^® Types and microm LoHaS. The features provide information on the lifestyles of the target group and their buying motives.

As part of its address analysis service ANALYSISFACTORY provides a broad range of analysis options to effectively tap the potential of customer databases, for example, customer profile analyses based on score cards or a service to prevent cancellations from occurring. Geo-based analyses provide greater transparency using a visual representation of complex facts by integrating spatial references. Solutions in the areas of database management and data mining create the basis for long-term customer relationships and systematically unlocking new potential.

In terms of address leasing Deutsche Post Direkt offers a wide selection of target group addresses to acquire potential new customers. The lease database, with some 37 million consumer addresses, ensures that almost every household across Germany is covered.The addresses are continuously maintained using the postal reference file and specific target groups are selected based on information from the microdialog microgeographic database. Some six million lifestyle addresses supply personal data on buying behaviour, specific consumer focus and purchasing requirements. All lifestyle data are released for commercial use. In the area of list broking Deutsche Post Direkt acts as an independent broker of customer addresses from list owners to advertising companies. As the only list broker on the German market Deutsche Post Direkt cleanses consumer lists of undeliverable addresses free of charge. Address lists are also marketed exclusively. With some four million German business addresses across more than 7000 sectors, customers have direct access to companies and the appropriate contact partners within the company. In order to approach new customers in foreign markets consumer addresses from 22 European countries and business addresses from 70 nations around the world are available. Several million e-mail addresses complete the address leasing portfolio.