Packeta Romania accelerates the pace of investment in Romania and assigns a budget of up to 5 million euros for development in 2022

• The company aims to open two new warehouses and double the number of pick-up points, to over 1,000

• Packeta Romania registered in 2021 a turnover of 11.7 million euros, 160% higher than in 2020

• The costs of an online store that delivers at pick-up points are 35% – 40% lower than on-site delivery

Packeta Romania, the local branch of Packeta Group, the global digital platform for online commerce and the company with the largest network of pick-up points in Central and Eastern Europe, is accelerating investments in the local market and assigning a budget of up to 5 million euros for the development of the Romanian business.

The investments will be directed, mainly, towards the opening of two new warehouses in Romania and in the extension of the network of pick-up points, the company aiming at doubling them by the end of the year. Packeta will continue its previous investments in logistics development, technical and parcel handling equipment, platform development, increasing staffing, creating new international shipping lines, technical integration and increasing the number of online stores. partners.

Packeta Romania’s investment plans are based on a significant increase, the company registering a turnover of over 11.7 million euros last year, an increase of 160% compared to the previous year.

“Due to the potential of the delivery market and due to the evolution of online commerce locally, Romania is at the center of the company’s concerns at group level. Packeta’s plans in Romania are thus focused on the development of delivery capacities throughout the country, being at the same time interested in contributing to the development of the industry and offering quality services at advantageous prices, especially in the current context “, says Alexandr Jeleascov, CEO Romania, mentioning that among the priorities of this year of the company is the doubling of the network of pick-up points, at over 1,000 locations.

“Transport tariffs are becoming more important in this period of increases in fuel prices, rising inflation, the conflict on the Romanian border, and the fact that we practice the lowest shipping costs, of only 7 lei without VAT, at any pick-up point in Romania is likely to generate significant savings for partner online stores ”.

Thus, from the point of view of transport and return logistics, the costs of an online store that delivers at pick-up points are 35% – 40% lower than the costs involved in delivering parcels to the address.

Packeta Romania is a global digital platform for online commerce, a member of Packeta Group, present on the Romanian market since 2017. The company aims to facilitate the logistics process for sellers and online stores through multiple delivery services, without imposing the place of end customers and time to pick up the products. This is possible thanks to an extensive network of over 10,000 own pick-up points and over 2,160 Z-Boxes in the international network of Packeta Group and another 92,000 partner pick-up points throughout Europe. In 2021, the Packeta group shipped more than 73 million parcels, thanks to collaboration with over 32,000 online stores and legal sellers. Online stores can ship their packages not only nationally but also internationally to all 27 countries in the European Union, plus the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Turkey and Ukraine.