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]] ' van]] DHL is a global market leader in international express, overland transport, air and sea freight. It is also a world leader in contract logistics. The company was founded in 1969 by Adrian Dalsey , Larry Hillblom , and Robert Lynn ; the initials of the founders' last names form the company name. The trio initially provided a service which would fly shipping documents between the US and Hawaii, which since expanded to become the global name DHL has become. Between 1998 and 2002, DHL was acquired by Deutsche Post World Net. In the UK, DHL / Deutsche Post AG also acquired Securicor Omega Logistics at this time. DHL's US headquarters are located in Plantation, FL , while its Asia Pacific headquarters are located in Singapore . DHL owns its own Cargo Airline , European Air Transport . It currently operates out of Brussels International Airport in Belgium , but will transfer the bulk of its European air operations to Leipzig, Germany . Major competitors include Fedex , UPS , TNT , and national post carriers such as US Postal Service and Royal Mail . DHL consists of a large group of separate entities, separated usually by business type and country. (DHL Freight & Contract Logistics (UK) Limited, DHL Express (Finland) etc.) There are over 300 separate 'sister' companies worldwide operating under the DHL name. GLOBAL EXPANSION DHL’s parent company, Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) has completed the US $6.6 billion takeover of Exel . The deal will create a global giant in the contract logistics sector, as well as in air and sea freight forwarding. The global integration process is expected to take up to three years, with most of the work being completed within the first year. In the Middle East, the new management structure has already been announced. The acquisition of Exel was the latest in a series of deals in the logistics sector, which is seeing increasing consolidation. DPWN, for instance, had spent $13 billion in recent years before this takeover, buying up logistics firms, including DHL and Danzas. The recent deal with Exel has caused employees of DHL to become distressed about their job security. Potential redundancys have been announced as of 28.04.06. HISTORY DHL began as a Courier service between San Francisco and Honolulu but in the next ten years expanded to the Philippines , other parts of Asia , Australia , Europe , and the Middle East .
OUTSOURCING Exel outsources its majority IT Logistical Work to Indian IT major Wipro. In that contract , the Software Configuration Management Team which consolidates Exel's CI's into a single stream while shipping to the client. On the development side, currently Integration projects are going on to link data from Exel's Logistics Operating System and DHL's. On the support side , important submodules of Exel's Freight Forwarding System are monitored and calls are being answered, patches for the development releases are produced. GLOBAL FACTS AND FIGURES
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