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"Indeed, we want to be a global leader in
logistics services for the e-commerce sector. In Germany, we're
the number one already," Frank Appel told Euro am Sonntag in an
interview published on Saturday.
Deutsche Post, the world's biggest postal and logistics group,
is best known internationally for its DHL parcel delivery
business but it is keen to win more work from the global boom in
online shopping.
E-commerce is expanding rapidly, with online retail sales in
Europe seen doubling from 2012 levels to around 323 billion
euros ($440 billion) by 2018, market research firm Mintel
forecasts.
Appel said it was the group's goal to grow organically in the
e-commerce sector.
"However, smaller acquisitions ... are always possible - also in
this area," he said.
Deutsche Post, which went public in 2000 and lost its German
mail monopoly seven years later, makes three-quarters of group
revenues from its DHL logistics business, compensating for the
decline in traditional letter deliveries.
($1 = 0.7336 euros)
(Reporting by Christoph Steitz; Editing by Alison Williams)
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