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DHL Group was the largest logistics company worldwide in 2022. [5] [better source needed] DHL Group is the successor to the German mail authority Deutsche Bundespost, the oldest modern postal service in the world, [6] tracing its roots to the middle ages. It was privatized in 1995 and became a fully independent company in 2000.
DHL (originally named after Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn) is a multinational logistics brand, founded in the United States and headquartered in Bonn, Germany. [5] It provides courier, package delivery, and express mail service, delivering over 1.7 billion parcels per year. [6]
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Robert Lynn (August 11, 1920 – February 8, 1998) [1] was an American businessman best known for co-founding DHL alongside Adrian Dalsey and Larry Hillblom.He was the “L” in DHL, and the last of the three founders to die.
DHL Global Forwarding, formerly known as DHL Danzas Air & Ocean, [1] is a division of Deutsche Post DHL providing air and ocean freight forwarding services. It also plans and undertakes major logistics projects under the brand name DHL Industrial Projects. Together with DHL Freight, it forms Deutsche Post's Freight/Forwarding department.
' German Post ') is a brand of the DHL Group [4] (listed as "Deutsche Post AG" [5] [4]), used for its domestic mail services in Germany. [2] The services offered under the brand are those of a traditional mail service, making the brand the successor of the former state-owned mail monopoly, Deutsche Bundespost.
The rest of the business was merged with DHL Express to form DHL Exel Supply Chain. Exel operates 441 facilities and works with over 40,000 associates in North America. Exel serves the automotive, chemical, consumer, energy, industrial, life sciences, retail, and technology industries.
1986 – DHL enters into a joint venture with the People's Republic of China and becomes the first express company active in China. 1990 – DHL enters into strategic alliances with Lufthansa, Japan Airlines and Nissho Iwai. 1991 – DHL becomes the first international express company to restart service to Kuwait after the Gulf War.