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Significant events
No significant events
ere were no events with material eects on the Groups net assets, nancial pos-
ition and results of operations in nancial year .
Results of operations
. Selected indicators for results of operations
2012 2013
Revenue m 55,512 55,085
Profit from operating activities   m 2,665 2,861
Return on sales 1  4.8 5.2
Consolidated net profit for the period 2 m 1,640 2,091
Earnings per share 3  1.36 1.73
Dividend per share  0.70 0.80 4
1  / revenue.
2 After deduction of non-controlling interests, prior-year amount adjusted.
3 Basic earnings per share, prior-year amount adjusted.
4 Proposal.
Changes in portfolio and reporting
e amendments to   (Employee Benets) have been required to be applied
since  January . is has in some cases signicantly impacted the recognition of
pension plans and partial retirement arrangements in the balance sheet and income
statement. Detailed information can be found in the
Notes
. e prior-year amounts
have been adjusted.
To improve the transparency of the balance sheet, we broke down the receivables
and other current assets item on the assets side into trade receivables and other current
assets. On the liabilities side, the capital reserves included in the other reserves item are
now shown separately. e prior-year amounts have been adjusted.
We disposed of our domestic express business in Romania by selling our subsidiary
Cargus International ... with eect from  March . Since then, our focus there
has been on international business.
In the   division, we sold our interests in  Fashion (France) ,
 company Exel Direct Inc. and  GmbH, Germany, together with their subsidiaries
in the second quarter. All of the companies’ assets and liabilities had previously been
reclassied as held for sale.
In the  division, we acquired optivo GmbH, a leading German e-mail market-
ing services provider, on  June . is acquisition enhances our range of services
and will allow us to develop our business in this area.
We sold   of our shares in Deutsche Post Mobility GmbH to Allgemeiner
Deutscher Automobil-Club  in the second quarter. Since October , we have
jointly operated a coach network and have entered the deregulated coach market with
the “ Postbus.
Note 
48 Deutsche Post DHL 2013 Annual Report
Group Management ReportReport on Economic Position
Significant events
Results of operations