An international express mail and logistics company founded in 1969. The acronym stands for the founders' surnames: Dalsey, Hillblom, and Lynn.
Founded in 1969 by Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, and Robert Lynn, who started by shipping documents between San Francisco and Honolulu. The company name simply combines the first letters of their surnames.
DHL was born from a brilliantly simple idea - Larry Hillblom realized that shipping documents by air was faster than shipping them by sea, and this insight grew into one of the world's largest logistics networks, proving that sometimes the obvious solution is revolutionary.
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