Change is a constant theme for the business and Appel says its employees need to embrace it or they will be left behind. And one of the big beneficiaries in that sphere was Amazon, a company that accounts for 2 per cent, or €1.26 billion, of DPDHL’s global revenues. Does Appel think that the tech behemoth is getting too big? Ireland, too, will rapidly recover, he predicts, citing our sixth-place ranking on the DHL global connectedness index. Appel will hope that Brexit and Trump were one-off phenomena and that the virus might actually bring them closer.

Source: The Irish Times July 08, 2020 03:56 UTC