On 20 September 2005 the company announced that British logistics company Exel had agreed on a £3.7 billion (€5.5 billion) takeover.
Investors include the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the KfW Banking Group, and twelve industrial groups of ALTANA, BASF, B. Braun, Robert Bosch, CEWE Color, Daimler, Deutsche Post DHL, Deutsche Telekom, Qiagen, RWE Innogy, Tengelmann and Carl Zeiss.
Because of the community’s “heavenly” name – Himmel means “heaven” or “sky” in German – the Weihnachtspostamt Himmelstadt (“Himmelstadt Christmas Post Office”) has existed since 1986, jointly run by Deutsche Post and the community.
On November 13, 1994, the Deutsche Post changed the format of its emissions to sheets of ten stamps each, due to reasons of efficiency.
It is also the location for the letter processing center for the Stuttgart region of the Deutsche Post.
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The race has been sponsored by several different companies since the 1980s, including Puma, Deutsche Post and IVG.
The letter processing center for the greater Rostock area is located in Roggentin.