It achieves the Customs Simplification, Security and Safety certificate, the most comprehensive existing nowadays.

The world’s largest tobacco company again chooses Logista as its integrated logistics operator in Spain for the next 5 years.

GTECH, a leader in games design as well as in developing and implementing lottery technology, and Logista, the number one integrated logistics operator in Spain and Portugal, and one of the foremost companies in Southern Europe, have constituted a joint venture to complement the distribution and marketing of active games and instant lottery (scratchcards) by Organización Nacional de Ciegos (National Organization for the Blind).

The joint venture is aimed at extending the network of points of sale where these Organization’s specific games will be available, thus extending the geographical reach and opening hours for selling these products.

It is a complementing network of points of sale to improve ONCE’s and its Foundation’s ability to reinforce the social coverage given to more than 4 million disabled people living in Spain.

The Organization has awarded this task to the company, owned by Logista and GTECH each with a 50 per cent stake, which will offer this service until the end of 2020. The joint venture will place the aforementioned products in tobacconists, newsstands, service stations, convenience stores and other outlets.

The agreement will offer a comprehensive service, including product planning and design, marketing, commercial operations, the technological solution at the point of sale, logistics, billing and collection to the point of sale.

It will build on each partner’s capabilities in their respective activity areas. GTECH will provide its experience in marketing, innovation and technology in the lottery sector, while Logista will provide its experience and knowledge in sales channels in which it currently operates, as well its services in logistics, commercial, customer service and marketing at points of sale areas.

Grupo Logista is a leading logistics group broadly present in Europe offering an integrated, specialized and high quality logistics service. Its cutting-edge information management systems allow to guarantee complete product traceability and operating control. Logista manages one of the most extensive, specialized and technologically advanced logistics network of infrastructures and transport in Southern Europe, allowing to recurrently reach more than 300,000 points of sale within specialized channels in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and Poland, to which it makes more than 43 million yearly deliveries.

Lottomatica is the market leader in the Italian gaming industry and one of the largest lottery operators in the world based on total wagers and, through its subsidiary GTECH Corporation, is a leading provider of lottery and gaming technology solutions worldwide. Together, the companies are the only vertically integrated full service lottery group. De Agostini+, belonging to a century-old publishing and media services group, is Lottomatica’s majority owner. Lottomatica is listed on the Stock Exchange of Milan under the trading symbol “LTO”. In 2008, the Company had €2.1 billion in revenues and has a staff of 7,500 employees in over 50 countries when combined with GTECH.

It achieves the Customs Simplification, Security and Safety certificate, the most comprehensive existing nowadays.

Logista, the number one integrated logistics operator in Spain and Portugal, and one of the foremost companies in Southern Europe, has been granted the Authorised Economic Operator certificate for Customs Simplification, Security and Safety.

This reinforces Logista’s image as a reliable economic operator for customs operations, for other members in the supply chain throughout the European Union and, by the mutual recognition mechanism, across much of the world.

Logista is the first integrated logistics operator obtaining the certificate in Spain, which until now had only been awarded to manufacturers and to some companies’ forwarding activities.

This certificate represents an array of operational benefits for Logista, its customers and the customs administration. According to this, Logista will have more flexible customs procedures, optimizing flows and transit times in international transactions undertaken for clients.

With this certification Logista starts enjoying priority in controls, higher easiness for simplified customs procedures, summary entry or exit declarations with reduced data or previous notification of physical recognitions decisions, easier access to customs, international recognition in trade and fewer physical and documentary controls.

This certificate is the most comprehensive of the three existing. In Spain, it is granted by the Departamento de Aduanas e Impuestos Especiales de la Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria (Department of Customs and Excise at the State Agency for Tax Administration) after auditing that the company has a satisfactory record in compliance with customs requirements, a proper system of trade risk management and transport records allowing a proper customs control, as well as proven financial soundness and adequate security levels.

Furthermore, it is necessary a proper administration management and solvency to ensure a satisfactory tax compliance.

This certificate, together with the expected shortly for Logesta, Grupo Logista’s specialized company for long distance and full truck load transportation management, will enable Grupo Logista to complete the customs facilities and guarantees in the broad range of integrated logistics services Grupo Logista offers to its multinational clients at international scale.

The Authorised Economic Operator figure has been developed by the European Commission as one of the mechanisms, perhaps the most important, through which customs will develop their significant role for a safe international supply chain for legitimate trade benefitting consumer protection, the environment or the fight against organized crime.

The world’s largest tobacco company again chooses Logista as its integrated logistics operator in Spain for the next 5 years.

Logista, the number one integrated logistics operator in Spain and Portugal, and one of the foremost companies in Southern Europe, has renewed with Philip Morris Spain its tobacco distribution agreement for Spain, again excluding Canary Islands, for the next 5 years until 2014.

Logista will keep servicing Philip Morris Spain with the broadest logistics service, including product transportation from Philip Morris International factories in the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland and Germany, which will be carried out by Logesta, Grupo Logista’s affiliate specialized in long distance and full load transport management with high security standards.

Logista’s services to Philip Morris Spain extend to the whole logistic value chain, including product pick up at factories, international transportation, planning and firm supply, stock management, order management, groupage, packaging, distribution, invoicing collection, as well as customer after-sales services.

This long time agreement with Philip Morris Spain is part of the overall company’s strategy for bringing predictability to the whole industry, so the different agents involved in its value chain may adequately plan their acts or future investments.

During 2008, Philip Morris Spain sales exceeded 28.944bn cigarettes from a broad portfolio including Marlboro, Chesterfield, L&M, Philip Morris and Next.

Philip Morris International is the world’s largest tobacco company, with USD 25.7bn in revenues, presence in 160 countries and has the world’s best selling brand, Marlboro, making its preference for Logista even more relevant.

This renewal and the extensive services signed prove the trust Philip Morris Spain places in Logista, as well as the efficiency reached by Logista in providing integrated logistic distribution  services for tobacco-related products to some 14,000 tobacconists in Spain.

Logista remains as the industry’s preferred distribution company and the leader due to its customers’ success and confidence constantly placed in Logista, which continues with its investment policy in order to keep efficiency, innovation and creation of technology-based high value added services.

Grupo Logista is an European leading logistics operator, with extensive presence in Spain, Italy and Portugal, distributing tobacco related products to more than 85,000 points of sale, due to continuous confidence by all main international and national tobacco companies. Also, Grupo Logista has extended its activity to Eastern Europe, being also present in Poland through Logista Polska.