Dhl Introduction

- DHL picture From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DHL redirects here. For other uses, seeDHL (disambiguation). DHL establish Deutsche persuade AG Type Division Industry Express Logistics Founded 1969 Headquarters Bonn,Germany Key people Ken Allen (CEO, Chairman)1 Adrian Dalsey(co-founder) Larry Hillblom(co-founder) Robert Lynn (co-founder) Products DHL Express Worldwide DHL Express 900 DHL Express 1200Owner(s) Deutsche Post DHL Employees 275,000 Website www. dhl. com DHL Expressis adivisionof the German logistics companyDeutsche Post DHLproviding internationalexpress mailservices. Deutsche Postis the worlds largest logistics company operating approximately the world. 2DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail. 34 Originally founded in 1969 to deliver documents betweenSan FranciscoandHonolulu, the company expanded its service end-to-end the world by the late 1970s.The company was primarily interested in offshore and inter-continental deliveries, but the success ofFedExp rompted their own intra-U. S. expansion starting in 1983. DHL sharply expanded to countries that could not be served by any other delivery service, including theSoviet Union,Eastern Bloc,Iraq,Iran,China,VietnamandNorth Korea. In 1998,Deutsche Postbegan to acquire shares in DHL. It finally reached mass ownership in 2001, and completed the purchase in 2002.Deutsche Post then effectively 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 Expressshares its well-known DHL brand with other Deutsche Post business units, such asDHL Global ForwardingandDHL Supply Chain. The DHL Express Service has ceased home(prenominal) operations in the United States of America, as of February 2009. 5