. for the finnish technology company see exel composites . for the former dutch airline see air exel . not to be confused with excel disambiguation . exel raising expectations type exel is a wholly owned entity of deutsche post industry logistics founded westerville ohio 1992 headquarters westerville oh united states key people john gilbert ceo revenue us 4.2 billion p.a. number of employees 40 000 associates in the united states and canada parent deutsche post website www.exel.com exel is a supply chain and logistics company operating in north america and europe . exel is wholly owned by the german firm deutsche post dhl . it reports annual revenues of about 4.2 billion . 1 contents 1 history 2 operations 3 controversies 4 references 5 external links history edit the company has its origins in several independent warehouse and transportation management companies in the united states which were acquired in 1985 by nfc plc formerly the national freight consortium the nationalised uk transportation business created by the post war labour government . the new company was re branded exel and the americas headquarters was established in westerville ohio in 1992 . by the year 2000 exel had grown and expanded operations to include canada latin america and south america . its portfolio of solutions also grew to include transportation management freight consolidation contract packaging contract manufacturing demand planning and other supply chain services . in may 2000 nfc plc merged with ocean group plc and adopting the name of its american subsidiary became exel plc. 2 in 2004 exel plc acquired tibbett & britten a leading uk based contract logistics business for 710m . 3 on 14 december 2005 deutsche post announced the completion of the acquisition of exel plc. 4 operations edit deutsche post continues to trade under the exel brand in north america . the rest of the business was merged with dhl express to form dhl exel supply chain . exel operates 441 facilities and works with over 40 000 associates in north america . exel serves the automotive chemical consumer energy industrial life sciences retail and technology industries . services include supply chain management inbound to manufacturing in plant services manufacturing assembly and packing warehousing and order fulfillment transportation management home and business delivery and reverse logistics . controversies edit the company has attracted notice in the press over the years for its labor practices . in august 2011 the main distribution center for hershey candies was subjected to a strike by about 400 5 young foreign workers brought to the united states under the j1 cultural exchange visa program . the center in palmyra pennsylvania was run for hershey by exel . 6 exel in turn subcontracted the staffing of the center to another firm shs onsite solutions based in lemoyne pennsylvania . the students were recruited by yet another organization called the council on educational travel cetusa . 7 in 2012 the department of labor s occupational safety and health administration fined exel almost 300 000 for wilfully failing to record and report on the job injuries for four years . 8 references edit company website on 28 february 2012 nfc and ocean forge 3.2 bn alliance to exploit commerce top 25 third party logistics providers bigger and broader deutsche post 2005 12 14 . deutsche post dhl completes acquisition of exel . archived from the original on october 22 2008 . retrieved 2008 11 07 . adams susan . hershey fudges labor relations image . forbes . foreign guestworkers union members protesting hershey co. policies for foreign workers hershey leaves a bitter taste for foreign students department of labor news release entitled us labor department s osha cites 2 companies proposes 288 000 in fines for workplace safety and health violations involving foreign students 12 o321 phi dated 13 february 2012 external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title exel & oldid 738944903 categories companies established in 1985companies based in ohio 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 languages portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 22 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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