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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.
In the 1970s, DHL became an international delivery company, similar to Loomis and Purolator who were the only other international courier companies at the time. In 1979, under the name of DHL Air Cargo , the company entered the Hawaiian Islands with an inter-island cargo service using two Douglas DC-3 and four DC-6 aircraft.
In July 2011, DHL acquired Tag Worldwide, an international provider of marketing execution and production services. [9] In 2017, DHL sold the combined Williams Lea Tag business to Advent International. [10] In May 2018, DHL Supply Chain strengthened its presence in Latin America by acquiring Colombian logistics company Suppla Group.
Larry Lee Hillblom (May 12, 1943 – May 21, 1995) was an American businessman and, alongside Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn, co-founded the shipping company DHL.After his disappearance in 1995, his estate paid $360 million to four impoverished children whom he had fathered as a result of "sex safari" trips in Southeast Asian countries, where he reportedly raped prepubescent girls and teenaged ...
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.
DHL Aviation is a group of airlines that are either owned, co-owned or chartered by DHL Express. [ citation needed ] DHL currently [ when? ] owns six main airlines to service various global regions: European Air Transport Leipzig (EAT Leipzig) is responsible for the major part of the network for Europe, and for long-haul services to the Middle ...
' 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.