DHL Group

DHL Group has become a large, world-wide company in about two decades. The following are significant dates in the development into its current form. • 2 January 1995: Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst becomes Deutsche Post AG; this is the company's privatization. The government of Germany still owns a large share of the company; the state development bank KfW owns 50 percent. • 1998: Deutsche Post begins acquiring shares in DHL International. • 1999: Deutsche Post World Net acquires the Dutch distribution company Van Gend & Loos from Nedlloyd and in 2000 the Swiss distribution company Danzas. • 20 November 2000: Deutsche Post AG becomes a fully private company, with a new board of directors, in an IPO listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The government of Germany sells one third of its shares and KfW bank sells some of its shares. • December 2002: Deutsche Post AG acquires the remaining shares in DHL International. • August 2003: The company acquires the Seattle-based Airborne Express (est. 1946). The company integrates Van Gend & Loos, Danzas, Airborne Express, and its own EuroExpress into DHL to form DHL Express. • December 2005: The group acquires the logistics company Exel in the UK, a £3.7 billion (€5.5 billion) takeover; Exel provided transport for corporate customers. • 2006: DHL GlobalMail UK merges with Mercury International. • December 2014: The group acquires StreetScooter GmbH, a small manufacturer of electric vehicles in Aachen, Germany. • December 2016: The group completes the purchase of UK Mail, a business-focused postal service - "one of the largest integrated parcels and mail operations in the U.K." – for US$315.5 (£243) million. The former company becomes a division of the Deutsche Post European parcel network, although its web site reveals only a relationship with DHL Express. Since the acquisition, UK Mail has rebranded as DHL Parcel UK and now operates domestic parcel services under the DHL network. • February 2019: The group reaches an agreement with SF Express (SF Holding) for its supply chain operations in China. == Financial data ==

The key trends of the DHL Group are (as at the financial year ending December 31): == Corporate divisions ==

Post and parcel division The postal division delivers approximately 61 million letters every working day in Germany, In 2002, Deutsche Post was granted a license to deliver mail in the United Kingdom, breaking Royal Mail's long-standing monopoly. In 2016, in Germany alone, the Post & Parcel (P&P) division delivered over 1.2 billion parcels, an increase of 9.3% over 2015, much of it as result of shipping products purchased by customers on-line. The e-commerce aspect helped to generate a great deal of revenue. This division's revenue increased by 4.1 percent to €16.8 billion while earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased by 30.8 percent to over €1.4 billion. eCommerce division Since financial year 2019, DHL Group has been pooling its international parcel delivery operations in the eCommerce division. Express division The DHL Express division offers worldwide courier, express and parcel shipment service, combining air and ground transport, under the DHL brand. It owns five airlines: European Air Transport Leipzig, DHL Air UK, DHL Aero Expreso, SNAS/DHL and Blue Dart Aviation. In 2016, this division's revenue increased by 2.7 per cent to €14 billion. The operating profit before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased by 11.3% over 2015 to €1.5 billion. Express is divided into business units along regions: • Europe • Asia Pacific • Americas • Europe, the Middle East and Africa Global Forwarding – Freight division The DHL Global Forwarding division carries goods by rail, road, air and sea under the DHL brand and includes the DHL Freight operation which runs a ground-based freight network covering Europe, Russia and traffic into the Middle East. In 2016, this division's revenue declined by 7.7 percent to €13.7 billion but operating profit before interest and taxes (EBIT) improved from -€181 million in 2015 to +€287 million. The division consists of two main business units: • DHL Supply Chain provides warehousing and warehouse transport for customers from a wide variety of sectors. • Corporate Information Solutions handles documents (collection, digitalisation, printing, storage, archival) of all types. In July, 2020, Deutsche Post DHL Group significantly increased earnings in Q2 2020 despite COVID-19. Operating profit (EBIT) improved by around 16% to around EUR 890 million. ==Electric van manufacturing==

In December 2014, Deutsche Post DHL Group purchased StreetScooter GmbH, a small manufacturer of electric vehicles in Aachen, Germany. By April 2016, the company announced that it would produce 2,000 of the StreetScooter Work model in Aachen by year end. The Work vehicle is equipped with lithium-ion battery packs and is powered by 30 kW asynchronous electric motors. The peak/continuous output is stated as 48 kW/38 kW. The range (before the need to recharge) is said to be 50 to 80 km, depending on the weight of the load and traffic conditions. The load capacity is 710 kg. Deutsche Post's 2016 annual report indicates that it plans to replace its fleet of delivery vehicles in Germany with the electric StreetScooter products "in the medium term". A mass production plan was announced in April 2016. StreetScooter GmbH would be scaling up to manufacture approximately 10,000 vehicles annually, starting in 2017. If that goal is achieved, it will become Europe's largest electric light utility vehicle manufacturer, surpassing Renault, which makes vans such as the Kangoo Z.E. StreetScooter showed a larger prototype, the Work L, in September 2016 that will provide double the capacity in cargo size; its load capacity will be 1,000 kg. The range (before recharging is necessary) is estimated at "up to 100 km". The company also announced that it was developing a Work Orange model with an "electro-hydraulic three-way dumper" for use by businesses that deal in trash or construction material handling. In 2021, plans for the sale of Streetscooter to Luxembourg-based Odin Automotive, now B-ON, were reported. == Brands ==

• Deutsche Post – offers domestic mail services under its traditional name; the division is called Post - eCommerce - Parcel (PeP). • DHL – brand used as an umbrella brand for worldwide logistics services. • Power Packaging – supplier of food and beverage contract manufacturing and packaging services to North American companies. • StreetScooter – electric vehicle manufacturer owned by the group since December 2014. == See also ==