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Deutsche Post  Group —  Annual Report
 Materials expense
 m
2014 2015
Cost of raw materials, consumables and supplies,
and of goods purchased and held for resale
Goods purchased and held for resale 2,052 1,761
Aircraft fuel 1,338 1,047
Fuel 817 755
Packaging material 354 421
Spare parts and repair materials 96 110
Oce supplies 62 60
Other expenses 112 136
4,831 4,290
Cost of purchased services
Transportation costs 18,814 19,754
Cost of temporary staff and services 2,124 2,521
Expenses from non-cancellable leases 1,845 2,096
Maintenance costs 1,016 1,117
 services 617 612
Commissions paid 462 557
Expenses from cancellable leases 478 493
Other lease expenses (incidental expenses) 265 393
Other purchased services 1,590 1,337
27,211 28,880
Materials expense 32,042 33,170
e reduction in goods purchased and held for resale is largely at-
tributable to the revised terms of the procurement and logistics con-
tract with the  National Health Service , United Kingdom.
e increase in materials expense is primarily due to currency
eects. is aected transportation costs in particular.
Provisions of  million were recognised in relation to the
write-down of the  programme. ey relate to unavoidable ex-
penses from ongoing contracts where the obligations exceed the
economic benets. e provisions were reversed in the amount of
 million in the fourth quarter, based on agreements with the im-
plementation partner. e associated income was recognised in
other operating expenses.
Other expenses include a large number of individual items.
 Staff costs / employees
 m
2014 2015
Wages, salaries and compensation 14,583 15,723
of which expenses under Share Matching
Scheme 1 82 99
of which expenses under Performance
SharePlan 2 3 10
of which expenses under   Plan /  3 105 33
Social security contributions 2,164 2,300
Retirement benefit expenses 965 1,031
Expenses for other employee benefits 477 586
Staff costs 18,189 19,640
1 Equity-settled and cash-settled.
2 Equity-settled.
3 Cash-settled.
e rise in sta costs is primarily attributable to exchange rate
movements. e increase in employee numbers and salary adjust-
ments also had an impact on sta costs.
Assuming that rights to shares are converted in full in the
respective subsequent year, a maximum of  million of the ex-
penses under the Share Matching Scheme in the reporting year
(previous year:  million) is attributable to cash-settled share-
based payments. e obligation at the balance sheet date was
 million (previous year:  million). In addition, as in the pre-
vious year, expenses of  million were incurred for equity-settled
share-based payments.
Sta costs relate mainly to wages, salaries and compensation,
as well as all other benets paid to employees of the Group for their
services in the year under review. Social security contributions re-
late in particular to statutory social security contributions paid by
employers.
Retirement benet expenses include the service cost related to
the dened benet retirement plans. Detailed information can be
found in  Note  . ese expenses also include contributions to
dened contribution retirement plans for civil servants in Germany
in the amount of  million (previous year:  million), as well
as for the Group’s hourly workers and salaried employees – particu-
larly in the , the  and the Netherlands – in the amount of
 million (previous year:  million).
e average number of Group employees in the year under
review, broken down by employee group, was as follows:
Employees (annual average)
Headcount
2014 2015
Hourly workers and salaried employees 440,973 451,882
Civil servants 37,963 35,669
Trainees 5,089 5,314
Employees 484,025 492,865
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