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DPD celebrates anniversary: parcel service
supports "Junior Sportsmen and
Sportswomen of the Year" for tenth time
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Since 2004 DPD has donated 265 educational grants to a value of
over €560,000
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This year's top award goes to biathlete Laura Dahlmeier
Gelsenkirchen/Aschaffenburg, 14 October 2013 – As partner to the
Deutsche Sporthilfe foundation DPD has for the tenth year in succession
supported the foundation's "Junior Sportsmen and Sportswomen of the
Year" awards. With these awards Deutsche Sporthilfe promotes top
junior sporting talent and last Friday Dr. Pia-Maria Zecevic, Head of
Corporate Communications at DPD, presented the prizes to the young
sportsmen and women at Gelsenkirchen's "Musiktheater im Revier".
"DPD is very proud of the past ten years in which we have, together with
Deutsche Sporthilfe, committed ourselves to promoting outstanding up-andcoming sporting achievement", states Dr. Pia-Maria Zecevic. "Since 2004 DPD
has provided 265 educational grants to a value of more than 560,000 euros for
the purpose of supporting sporting talent." The prize-winning junior sportsmen
and women of the past ten years include international sports stars such as
skiing downhill racer and double Olympic champion Maria Höfl-Riesch,
biathlete Magdalena Neuner who retired last year and Viktoria Rebensburg,
who won Gold in the Giant Slalom at the last Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Biathlete Laura Dahlmeier is the 2013 "Junior Sportswoman of the Year"
Support for the "Junior Sportsmen and Sportswomen of the Year" awards is a
central component of DPD's involvement with Sporthilfe. First place in the
individual competition this year went to biathlete Laura Dahlmeier, who has
recently won three World Junior titles. The runner-up was rower Anne
Beenken, twice Junior World Champion in the Single Sculls. Third place went
to Manuel Faißt, triple Junior World Champion in the Nordic Combined event.
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In the team competition awards went to two successful duos in rowing and
bobsleighing. The disabled sports prize went to swimmer Elena Krawzow
while Linda Neumann, also a swimmer, won first prize in the competition for
the hearing disabled.
All the nominated sportsmen and women receive educational grants from DPD
with which they can, for example, buy books for their studies or pay college
fees. "The sportsmen and women supported by Sporthilfe are a model for all
of us. With their dedication, willpower and endurance they display socially
relevant values which we as a company share. The aim of the educational
grants is to help talented junior sportspeople to combine their professional and
sporting careers", explains Dr. Pia-Maria Zecevic.
Long-term
commitment
to
promoting
outstanding
up-and-coming
sporting achievement
As a partner to Deutsche Sporthilfe DPD is also involved in other activities in
addition to the "Junior Sportsmen and Sportswomen of the Year" awards. For
example, with the Sporthilfe fund-raising promotion "Dein Name für
Deutschland" (Your Name for Germany) DPD campaigns for greater support
for outstanding junior sporting talent. With effect from this year DPD is also
involved in the "Sprungbrett Zukunft" (Springboard to the Future) initiative,
which supports sportspeople in pursuing professional and sporting careers,
offering sportsmen and women an exclusive job application option in the form
of the so-called "keyword application" for the purpose of facilitating their entry
to working life. In addition the Sporthilfe logo appears on around 7,000 DPD
delivery vehicles in Germany, making it an everyday sight on Germany's
roads. Only last year DPD extended its partnership with Deutsche Sporthilfe
until the year 2015.
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Photo: Laura Dahlmeier receives the 2013 award of "Junior Sportswoman of the
Year" from the Deutsche Sporthilfe foundation, together with an educational grant
worth €6,000 from DPD. Dr. Pia-Maria-Zecevic, DPD Corporate Spokesperson (right)
and Dr. Michael Ilgner, Chairman of the Sporthilfe Board (left) congratulate the triple
Junior World Biathlon Champion.
About DPD
With the shipment of 2.5 million parcels a day DPD is a leading international provider of
parcel and express services. The company has the most efficient road network in
Europe and delivers to 230 countries worldwide. Customers can choose services from
an extensive product range of national and international parcel and express services for
business and home deliveries. A workforce of 24,000 and 18,000 vehicles operate at
more than 800 locations. The majority shareholder in DPD with 83.32 % shareholding is
the GeoPost Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French Groupe La Poste. With a
consolidated turnover of 4.026 billion euros in the year 2012 GeoPost is currently
Europe's second-largest provider of express parcel services.
Press contact:
DPD Dynamic Parcel Distribution GmbH & Co. KG
Frank Vergien
PR Manager
Wailandtstraße 1
63741 Aschaffenburg
Phone: +49 6021 843-120