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EXPRESS DIVISION
Revenue in time-definite business grows at a high level
Revenue in the division increased by .  to , million in the reporting year (previ-
ous year: , million). Our business continued to grow: excluding negative currency
eects of  million and the eect from the sale of the domestic express business in
Romania in the rst quarter of , revenue in the reporting year increased by . .
In the fourth quarter of , revenue climbed year-on-year by . .
In the Time Denite International  product line, both per-day shipment vol-
umes and daily revenues rose by .  compared with the prior year. An increase of . 
in the nal quarter armed the growth in per-day volumes.
In the Time Denite Domestic  business, our customers sent .  more ship-
ments each day year-on-year in . Daily revenues in the reporting year remained
at the prior-year level. In the fourth quarter of , daily shipment volumes went up
by . .
Eective  January , we transferred the Indian subsidiary Blue Dart as well
as the domestic express business in the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland to the PeP
division. Since then our focus in the Express division in these countries has been on our
core competence, international business. e subsidiary Sky Courier Inc. in the United
States was transferred to the Global Forwarding, Freight division.
. : revenue by product
 m per day
12013
adjusted
2014 + / – % Q 4 2013
adjusted
Q 4 2014 + / – %
Time Definite
International  34.7 37.4 7.8 37.5 40.0 6.7
Time Definite
Domestic  3.9 3.9 0.0 4.1 4.3 4.9
1 To improve comparability, product revenues were translated at uniform exchange rates.
These revenues are also the basis for the weighted calculation of working days.
. : volumes by product
Thousands of items
per day
1
2013
adjusted
2014 + / – % Q 4 2013
adjusted
Q 4 2014 + / – %
Time Definite
International  643 693 7.8 694 748 7.8
Time Definite
Domestic  361 367 1.7 380 395 3.9
1 To improve comparability, product revenues were translated at uniform exchange rates.
These revenues are also the basis for the weighted calculation of working days.
 volumes in Europe region see final-quarter double-digit increases
Revenue in the Europe region was , million, .  above the prior year’s gure of
, million. e gure for the reporting year included negative currency eects of
 million, which related mainly to our business activities in Russia and Turkey. Exclud-
ing these eects and the eect from the sale of the domestic express business in Romania
in the rst quarter of , revenue growth in  was . . Daily revenues in the 
product line grew by . , due primarily to the .  increase in daily shipment volumes.
In the fourth quarter of , daily revenues in international shipments increased by
.  compared with the prior-year quarter; shipment volumes were even up by . .
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