industry postal service founded 1999 headquarters amsterdam netherlands area served european union key people rico back ceo services postal parcel delivery collecting revenue 2.1 billion owner royal mail number of employees over 14 000 1 website http www.gls group.eu general logistics systems b.v. gls is a dutch british owned logistics company based in amsterdam . it was founded in 1999 2 and is a subsidiary of royal mail 3 a postal service operator based in the united kingdom . gls operates within 42 european countries and is the 3rd biggest parcel provider in europe . 4 gls also provides services all over the world with the exception of some high political risk countries such as north korea or cuba through its partnership network . in the 2014 15 financial year gls shipped 436 000 000 parcels for over 220 000 customers generating revenues of 2.1 billion . gls has ca. 19 000 vehicles servicing 39 hubs spanning 42 european countries . 5 references edit facts and figures gls history about gls about gls facts and figures external sources edit official website this dutch corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title general logistics systems & oldid 743919967 categories logistics companies of the netherlandsroyal maildutch company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages danskdeutschespa olfran aisitalianopolski edit links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 01 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view