DHL occupies more than 40% of the express delivery market in Europe. In addition to the American international market, in the domestic market, Asia-Pacific and European international markets, its market share ranks first in the industry. It is the company with the highest degree of international express delivery in the world. With more than 325,000 employees worldwide and an air freight fleet of more than 250 aircraft, DHL can provide perfect solutions for almost all kinds of logistics needs.
DHL was founded in San Francisco, USA in 1969 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. In 2002, it merged with Deutsche Post. Deutsche Post controlled all its shares and merged its DHL Air Cargo and Danza Freight Forwarding companies. (Danzas) and European Express were integrated into the new DHL Air Cargo Company, for which Deutsche Post Group changed its name to Deutsche Post DHL.
Afterwards, Deutsche Post successively acquired Airborne in the United States and Exel Logistics in the United Kingdom, both of which were merged into the DHL segment, gradually establishing DHL’s unshakable status as a logistics giant. Compared with several other logistics giants, Germany’s overseas revenue accounts for 70%, which further demonstrates DHL’s high degree of internationalization.
As the world’s largest integrated logistics company, DHL’s business scope covers more than 220 countries and regions. The main business of the entire DPDHL Group includes four aspects: postal service, express delivery, freight forwarding and supply chain. In terms of specific business, the company is currently the largest postal service provider in Germany. In the international market, it ranks first in the world in terms of market share in air and sea freight agency, contract logistics, and express delivery services. Recently, perhaps stimulated by FedEx’s acquisition of TNT, DPDHL plans to acquire the UK Mail Group, which is impressive.
In 2015, DHL achieved operating income of 59.23 billion euros, a year-on-year increase of 4.59%, and net profit of 2.411 billion euros. The operating income of each business segment is balanced. The largest contributor to profits is the express delivery segment, which contributes more than 50% of the net profit and has the strongest profitability. China is the world’s major market and production base, and is also DHL’s largest market in the world.
DHL’s operating revenue in China is nearly 5 billion euros, more than half of its total operating revenue in Asia. In the cross-border e-commerce logistics circle, DHL has always played an important role. In order to seek long-term development in this rapidly changing industry, it was decided to establish DHL eCommerce and start e-commerce small packages to meet market positioning.
The Greater China region has also been established in the Asia-Pacific region to be closer to China’s cross-border e-commerce groups, launching a new DHL e-commerce Shenzhen parcel operation center, and expanding the existing parcel processing centers in Shanghai and Hong Kong, China. scale. Due to the lack of a domestic collection network, DHL has many domestic agents, such as Sifang, Baiqiancheng, Junhui, Zhonghuan Yun and Huianhuiyi, etc. There are also many large customers who use agreed discounts to deliver goods.
DHL established a joint venture with Sinotrans DHL in 1986, each holding 50% of the shares, to provide international air services to major cities in China. DHL-Sinotrans has established a total of 73 branches and 88 express delivery centers in China. According to official information, DHL-Sinotrans currently ranks as the leader in my country’s international air express industry, with a market share as high as 37%. Relying on the advantages of both China and Germany, DHL Sinotrans is a model of successful joint ventures. It has maintained its absolute advantage in China’s market share. DHL has become the main source of performance for Sinotrans’ development. In 2015, it contributed 85% of the net profit, and every year Still maintaining rapid growth.
If you click on the DHL official website, you will find that the logistics solutions it develops involve aerospace, automobiles, chemicals, consumer goods, fashion, life sciences and health care industries, engineering and manufacturing, renewable energy, technology logistics, and retail. and many other industries. DHL provides distinctive solutions for the automotive industry. Its core services include incoming goods to manufacturing plants, warehousing and order processing, transportation management, on-site logistics, after-sales logistics and fourth-party logistics services. Therefore, it is almost impossible to imitate the current business form of these companies in the short term, and their aircraft have even transported giant pandas!