DP DHL adjusts full-year earnings guidance for 2012 upwards
Air and ocean freight specialist DHL Global Forwarding increases presence in Brazilian automotive market
The Deutsche Post DHL group remains on growth path. Frank Appel, the CEO of the leading postal and logistics group, Deutsche Post DHL, stated this at the presentation of the current key figures. In the first half of the current fiscal year, the company boosted revenues by EUR 1.5 billion, or 5.8 per cent, from EUR 25.6 billion in the previous year to EUR 27.1 billion in 2012. Compared with the first half of 2011, the group’s operating result rose by 3.6 per cent to EUR 1.2 billion (2011: EUR 1.2 billion). In the first half of the year, consolidated net profit climbed from EUR 603 million in 2011 to EUR 734 million in the ongoing fiscal year. Against this background and the company’s positive development in the second quarter 2012, the group has made an upward adjustment to its earnings guidance for the ongoing fiscal year. It now expects to generate EBIT of EUR 2.6 billion to EUR 2.7 billion. Previously the company had anticipated the group’s operating result to be between EUR 2.5 billion and EUR 2.6 billion.
As to international express business, DP DHL was able to further expand its worldwide market share. In the second quarter of 2012 revenues rose by 10.7 per cent to EUR 3.2 billion. In the process, double-digit revenue improvements were produced in all regions – except Europe. Revenues and volume rose particularly fast in Asia and in the United States. At EUR 3.5 billion revenues in the Supply Chain division were 12.5 per cent above the previous year’s total of EUR 3.1 billion. This growth was fuelled in particular by strong gains in the Asia Pacific region as well as in the ‘Automotive’ and ‘Life Sciences & Healthcare’ sectors.
DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist within Deutsche Post DHL, has recently opened a new Automotive Competence Center in São Paulo, Brazil. With nearly 2,000 shipments per month, the centre bundles all the automotive activities of DHL for the local market, mainly addressing original equipment manufacturers and first-tier suppliers. In the Global Forwarding, Freight division, revenues climbed by 5.7 per cent to EUR 4 billion in the second quarter of 2012.
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