01/19/2011 03:14 pm

DHL widens global logistics partnership with Fashion Week

DHL, the world’s leading express and logistics company, has widened its official partnership with fashion weeks around the world to include shows in Paris, Zurich and Tokyo. IMG Fashion continues to support DHL globally via its network of fashion weeks and events.For the fourth consecutive year, DHL provides logistics services to these events, which will now total 25 global ashion eek fashion events in 13 countries on four continents.

In addition, DHL has extended its scope of services, allowing designers at the fashion weeks to use DHL’s GoGreen carbon-offset transport services for their collections.  

“DHL has, over the past decades, gained the experience and knowledge to develop flexible and adaptable logistics solutions for the fashion and garment industry, being an increasingly important sector of the global economy,” says Christof Ehrhart, Executive Vice President Corporate Communications at Deutsche Post DHL. “In that respect, we are proud to continue and widen our official partnership with these fashion weeks.”

DHL is one of the leading international logistics service providers for the textile and garment industries, providing services ranging from procurement of material to sample production, quality control, warehousing and processing of garments to direct delivery to shops. DHL’s customers include both small, independent fashion boutiques requiring a one-off service as well as large retail groups with complex distribution requirements. Top designers such as Michael Michalsky and Vivienne Westwood are utilizing DHL’s know-how and services.

The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, this season’s first, opens in Berlin this week marking the start of the  fall/winter 2011 ready-to-wear season.. The next stop on the fashion week circut will take place in New York, February 10 to17, and then London, February 18 to 23.

 

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