Company type | Subsidiary[1] |
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Industry | Courier |
Founded | September 25, 1969San Francisco, U.S. | , in
Founders | Adrian Dalsey Larry Hillblom Robert Lynn |
Headquarters | Bonn, Germany |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Tobias Meyer (CEO)[2] |
Products | DHL Express Worldwide DHL Express 9:00 DHL Express 12:00 |
Services | Package delivery, EMS, freight forwarding, third-party logistics |
Revenue | €81.7 billion (2021)[3] |
Number of employees | 586,404 (Q1 2023)[4] |
Parent | DHL Group |
Website | www |
DHL[5] is a logistics company[6] providing courier, package delivery and express mail service, delivering over 1.7 billion parcels per year.[7] A subsidiary of the German logistics firm DHL Group, its express mail service DHL Express is one of the market leaders for parcel services in Europe. DHL Express is Germany's main international courier and parcel service.[8] DHL also operates a separate parcel service targeting the German consumer market in conjunction with Deutsche Post. This service is linked to DHL Express with some shared infrastructure but they operate as different entities within DHL Group and have separate vehicles and couriers for last mile delivery.
The company DHL itself was founded in San Francisco, United States in 1969 and expanded its service throughout the world by the late 1970s.
The company was primarily interested in offshore and intercontinental deliveries, but the success of FedEx prompted DHL's own domestic (intra-US) expansion starting in 1983. In 1998, Deutsche Post began to acquire shares in DHL. It reached controlling interest in 2001, and acquired all outstanding shares by December 2002.[9] The company then absorbed DHL into its Express division, while expanding the use of the DHL brand to other Deutsche Post divisions, business units, and subsidiaries. Today, DHL Express shares its DHL brand with business units such as DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Supply Chain.[10] It gained a foothold in the United States when it acquired Airborne Express in 2003.
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