Jaan Lepp: big company can be flexible

The chairman of the Board Jaan Lepp said, that the companies biggest aim for the nearest future is to prove, that big comapnies are able to offer felxible service to their clients.

"Every merger is different one, tooking over Frans Maas was new experience for us, we had some unpredicted problems, but right know the process is finished. After the merger we found, that we weren't a flexible comapny anymore. Our goal is to re-establish felxibility and rise service standards," said Lepp.

In 2007 the consolidation of freight forwarding companies will continue due to the globalisation.

Third place went to Valev Udras, companys core business along transport is real estate. Valev Udras held fifth place last year and was the only company who maintained the position in TOP 5 two years in a row.

To create the chart, Äripäev compared six figures: net sales in 2004 and 2005, net profit in 2004 and 2005, ROE, the increase of sales, the increase of net profit and cost efectiveness.

Each figure gave points, the winner was the company who earned less points.

Most data was recieved from the registry of Ministry of Justice plus data from databases of Äripäev.

ADR-Haanpää, one of the market leaders in trnasporting dangerous liquid goods in Estonia, took the first place previous year.

Monthly Logistika collected predictions from several freight forwarding companies for service prices in 2007.

In conclusion, service providers estimate an 10-20% increase next year mainly due to the boosting fuel prices and a lack of labour force in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

According to Kaubaekspress CEO Tiit Jõevee prices will rise due to the labour force salary increase and high fuel has also influence to the prices.

"Problably December is the key month, which will lead the way for 2007. Im not very confident that Estonian market rally 2007 as fast as this year. There are slight sings of upcoming hangover," was pessimistic Vahur Oja, the director of finance in Allando Trailways.