{"id":2056,"date":"2009-07-14T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T00:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2009-07-14T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T00:39:56","slug":"dhl-increases-prices-by-just-over-2-in-a-decade-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/dhl-increases-prices-by-just-over-2-in-a-decade-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"DHL increases prices by just over 2% in a decade&#8230;wow?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague of mine was running a DHL press conference last week and invited me along as a blogger (they just opened a big distribution centre locally).<\/p>\n<p>During the Q and A one of the guys from DHL stated they have only increased prices twice in the last decade, one at 0.75% increase the other just over 1% making for ~2% increase.<\/p>\n<p>That is amazing if you ask me. \u00a0As a point of comparison during that time crude oil prices (a driving cost in logistics) have gone from (inflation adjusted) $21.12\/barrel in 1999 to $126\/barrel in 2008! Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inflationdata.com\/inflation\/Inflation_Rate\/Historical_Oil_Prices_Table.asp\">InflationData<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How did they achieve it?<\/p>\n<p>Well DHL has an internal measure (and belief) that they shouldn&#8217;t have to increase prices as long as they focus on productivity gains.<\/p>\n<p>By driving productivity as costs increase DHL have actually been quite successful don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague of mine was running a DHL press conference last week and invited me along as a blogger (they just opened a big distribution centre locally). During the Q and A one of the guys from DHL stated they have only increased prices twice in the last decade, one at 0.75% increase the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[375,977,989],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}