The squad traces back to 2005, when Shimano's backing put a Dutch outfit on the road as Shimano-Memory Corp. Iwan Spekenbrink was running it by the time it raced as Skil-Shimano in 2008, and stayed on through the name changes that followed: Argos-Shimano from 2012, Giant-Shimano in 2014, Giant-Alpecin for 2015 and 2016, Sunweb from 2017, DSM from 2021, dsm-firmenich PostNL in 2024 and Picnic PostNL from 2025.
Promoted to the WorldTour for 2013, the team built its early identity around sprinting. Marcel Kittel won the opening stage of the 2013 Tour de France in Bastia and pulled on the yellow jersey, then won four stages of the 2014 race. John Degenkolb won Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix in 2015, when the squad raced as Giant-Alpecin.
Tom Dumoulin won the 2017 Giro d'Italia, the first Dutch rider to win the race, and took the world time trial title in Bergen later that year, where the team also won the men's team time trial. At the 2017 Tour de France, Warren Barguil won two stages and the mountains classification, and Michael Matthews won the points jersey. Dumoulin finished second at both the 2018 Giro and the 2018 Tour.
The team has been built around coaching and structure rather than headline signings, and riders have tended to move on soon after a breakthrough. Marc Hirschi left after winning a stage of the 2020 Tour de France, where Søren Kragh Andersen also won twice, and Jai Hindley left after finishing second at the 2020 Giro d'Italia, a race in which Wilco Kelderman finished third.
Romain Bardet joined for 2021 and won the opening stage of the 2024 Tour de France at Rimini, taking the yellow jersey. Oscar Onley finished fourth overall at the 2025 Tour. The same organisation has fielded a women's WorldTeam under the same name and management, run as a separate squad.









