From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post AG
Type Founded Headquarters Key people
Public (FWB: DPW, LSE: DPO) 1995 Bonn, Germany Wulf von Schimmelmann
(Chairman of the supervisory board),
Frank Appel (CEO), John Allan (CFO) Industry Products Logistics, distribution Post delivery, express mail, freight forwarding, third-party logistics €54.47 billion (2008)[1] ▼ (€567 million) (2008)[1] ▼ (€1.688 billion) (2008)[1] 456,720 (2008)[1] www.dp-dhl.de
Revenue Operating income Profit Employees Website
The Deutsche Post Tower in Bonn successor to the former German state-owned mail monopoly, but has significantly expanded its business area through acquisitions since its privatisation in 1995.
Corporate divisions
Mail
Delivery bike, Cologne Deutsche Post AG (FWB: DPW, LSE: DPO), operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL, is the world’s largest logistics group. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 470,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of € 63.5 billion ($ 97.8 billion) in 2007. Deutsche Post is the The Mail division delivers approximately 70 million letters in Germany, six days a week and provides services across the entire mail value chain, including production facilities at central hubs, sales offices and production centers on four continents, as well as direct connections to more than 200 countries. The Mail division inherits most of the traditional mail services formerly offered by the state-owned monopoly, for which it uses the Deutsche Post brand.
1
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As of January 2008, it is divided into the following business units[2]: • handles domestic mail service as well as international mail from Germany • handles domestic distribution of print products (newspapers and magazines). • operates domestic retail outlets (post offices), which offer a complete array of letter mail, parcel and Postbank services. • provides services for direct marketing such as market research and address verification. • handles the domestic, non-express parcel service, including the Packstation network. It was changed over to the DHL umbrella brand when it was temporarily assigned to the Express division. • handles international mail and domestic mail in other countries under the DHL umbrella brand.
Deutsche Post
• handles documents (collection, digitalisation, printing, storage, archival) of all types.
Financial Services
The financial services division operates through its Deutsche Postbank subsidiary, a retail bank network in Germany, which has approximately 14.5 million customers.
Brands Mergers and acquisitions
Deutsche Post acquired Airborne Express in August 2003 and integrated it into DHL, which is now known as DHL Express. On 20 September 2005 the company announced that British logistics company Exel had agreed on a £3.7 billion (€5.5 billion) takeover. The combined revenue of the two companies was €50 billion over 2004. In 2006 DHL GlobalMail UK merged with Mercury International.
Express
The Express division transports courier, express and parcel shipments all over the world, combining air and ground transport, under the DHL brand. It is divided into business units along regions: • Europe • Asia Pacific • Americas • Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa (EEMEA)
Trivia
• In 1998, Deutsche Post World Net began to acquire shares in DHL, finally reached majority ownership in 2001, and completed the purchase in 2002. • In 2002 it was granted a license to deliver mail in the United Kingdom, breaking Royal Mail’s long-standing monopoly. • Deutsche Post offers a service called a (literally "garage agreement" in English) to its German customers. The postman can leave packets and parcels in a specified place (such as the garage, or a neighbour’s house) if the addressee is not at home to receive them. This on the one hand saves the recipient a trip to the post office to pick up their mail. On the other hand, any item left at the specified place is regarded as “delivered” and hence not covered by Deutsche Post’s insurance anymore. • Deutsche Post’s exclusive right to deliver letters under 50 grams in Germany expired on 1 January 2008 following the implementation of European legislation. A number of companies are vying to challenge Deutsche Post’s near monopolistic hold on letter deliveries,
Forwarding/Freight
The Forwarding/Freight division carries goods by rail, road, air and sea under the DHL brand. It consists of two main business units: • DHL Global Forwarding handles global air and ocean freight. • DHL Freight runs a groundbased freight network covering Europe, Russia and traffic into the Middle East.
Supply Chain/CIS
The Supply Chain/Corporate Information Solutions provides contract logisitic and corporate information solutions tailor-made for customers. It consists of two main business units: • provides warehousing and warehouse transport services as well as value-added solutions along the entire supply chain for customers from a wide variety of sectors.
2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
including Luxembourg-based PIN Group and Dutch-owned TNT Post [3]. • In 2008 Neo-Nazis created 20 Rudolf Hess stamps after using Deutsche Post Plusbrief Individuell, a "design-your-own" stamp service which delivers pre-franked, personalised envelopes.[4] A spokesman for the Deutsche Post stated that this was an accident. The usual screening process for illegal and offensive content didn’t work in the case of Nazi post stamp as it is the case in other accidents where content remains blocked; this was explained as result of "unknown causes".[5]
Deutsche Post
References
[1] ^ "Annual Report 2008" (PDF). Deutsche Post. http://investors.dp-dhl.com/en/ investoren/publikationen/archiv/2009/ finanzpublikationen/ dpwn_annual_report_2008_en.pdf. Retrieved on 2009-03-14. [2] http://investors.dpwn.de/en/investoren/ segmente/brief/index.html [3] Businessweek.com 2 Aug 2007 [4] You’ve Got Nazi Mail: German Postal Service Admits Inadvertently Printing Hess Stamp - Der Spiegel, May 21, 2008 [5] http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/ 1,80277,5236273.html
Ownership
• KfW: 35.5% • Free float: 64.5% • Institutional: 56.5% • Private investors: 8%
External links
• Deutsche Post • Yahoo! - Deutsche Post AG Company Profile • [1]
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Post" Categories: Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, Communications in Germany, Companies of Germany, Postal organisations, Transport and distribution companies, Deutsche Post This page was last modified on 13 April 2009, at 06:22 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers
3