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We also planned to increase consolidated earnings to at least €3.7 billion in 2005 – and
we achieved this, too! We would like you to share in these successes, and I will therefore
be proposing a dividend of €0.70 per share to you at the Annual General Meeting in May.
is represents a substantial increase of 40% per share.
In August, our share price broke the €21 mark for the rst time since March 2001 and thus
kept pace with the extremely positive performance of the DAX. is reects the trust and
condence that you have placed in Deutsche Post World Net and its future. We will do
everything we can to increase the value of your investment.
We see ourselves as a company that, despite being international, still has an extremely
strong local presence and is aware of its responsibilities. It is therefore particularly impor-
tant to us to get involved in activities locally. 2005 was a year of major natural disasters.
Our experienced DHL crisis team enabled us to eectively support the aid measures in
countries such as Pakistan. In the United States, we coordinated the aid ights to the hur-
ricane-hit areas, and our employees as well as the organization donated US$1 million for
reconstruction.
Once again we face major challenges in 2006. Allow me to name three of them: rstly,
we intend to merge the former competitors Deutsche Post World Net and Exel to form a
powerful new company that focuses on the quality of its services and employees. Secondly,
we must prove ourselves in the domestic and international mail business as well as in the
global express business every single day. And thirdly, we must accompany Postbank with
BHW and the new retail outlets on its quantum leap.
I would like to sincerely thank all those who have supported us in our achievements to
date, above all our employees. And I would like to extend a warm welcome to the more
than 110,000 new sta who have joined us.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Klaus Zumwinkel
Chairman of the Board of Management
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