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Kempten/La Verrie, 6 July 2010. Following Überherrn in the Saarland and Bratislava in Slovakia, it’s now the turn of France: on 6 July 2010 in the municipality of Combronde, some 30 kilometres north of the French city of Clermont-Ferrand, the internationally operating logistics provider gave the starting signal for construction of its third Eurohub. This will be built on a 60,600-square-metre site. The new build will mean 100 new Dachser jobs in the region.

“Construction of the French Eurohub illustrates how quickly and dynamically our pan-European network has developed since the first Eurohub opened its doors in Überherrn eight years ago. What’s more, with this we are also pursuing a “Made by Dachser” logistics concept that is fully in line with our activities in the field of sustainability,” says Bernhard Simon, spokesmen for the Dachser management. Dachser has earmarked ten million euros for the new Eurohub project.

A tried-and-tested logistics concept
The basis for all freight services is a central logistics platform that links all branches in the French network. Every night, 55 trucks will arrive at the goods transshipment centre. From here, shipments will be forwarded on directly to their target destinations. The hub will enable 80 percent of the French market to be reached within 24 hours without recourse to expensive express services. In order to realize this, Dachser needed a strategically favourable location, which the company found in the Auvergne and, specifically, in Combronde: the hub site is right in the heart of France with direct links to the A71 and A89 motorways.

“The concept foresees a complete reorganization of our freight services: our goal is to create efficient, precisely timed and highly reliable transport systems. For our customers, this means that we optimize their delivery times,” explains Philippe Tardieu, who oversees the Dachser France national organization.

Swap bodies in France – pioneering achievements in groupage logistics
The second distinctive feature concerns goods transport: in future, Dachser will use double-deck swap bodies both at the Eurohub and at many other locations in France. With this, the company is playing a pioneering role in the French groupage market.

Advantages of the swap body “road container”:  

• High payload – double-deck loading provides space for 38 Euro pallets in one swap body.
• Flexible goods transshipment – fewer transshipment processes optimize goods flows.
• High level of load security thanks to modern stowage systems.

Facts and figures: Dachser creates 100 jobs
The hub will have a transshipment area of 7,150 square metres and 98 loading bays; the office area will measure 1,410 square metres spread over three storeys. At the start-up of operations, scheduled for summer 2011, Dachser will create 100 jobs in the region.

In 2009 Dachser generated total revenue of EUR 3.2 billion. 17,500 staff working in 306 profit centres worldwide handled 41.8 million consignments weighing a total of 29.4 million tonnes.


Picture caption:
Start of construction of the third Dachser-Eurohub near Clermont-Ferrand: Bernhard Simon (left) and Philippe Tardieu plant a tree as a symbol for sustainable economic management.

Kempten/Warsaw/Gdansk. 2 July 2010. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, is continuing to expand its global logistics network. The Dachser Air & Sea Logistics business segment is setting up its own team in the Polish air and sea freight market.

The Polish country organization, Dachser Sp.z.o.o., was integrated into Dachser’s European Logistics transport network over four years ago. Now, the company will also be able to handle its customers’ intercontinental air and sea freight consignments. To this end, Dachser’s Air & Sea Logistics business segment has opened a dedicated branch office at Warsaw Airport headed by ASL country manager Robert Pastryk.

“Polish foreign trade has shown a dynamic development over the past few years, both on the import and the export side. The prospects for growth are favourable,” Robert Pastryk says. Poland has also overcome the global financial and economic crisis relatively well. In 2009 it was the only EU member state to achieve positive growth. “Our intercontinental services allow us to offer our customers attractive logistics solutions to and from Poland, thus providing access to one of Europe’s strongest growth markets,” adds Thomas Reuter, managing director of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics.

Dachser’s European Logistics business segment operates at seven branch locations throughout Poland and now, with a new cross-docking-platform in Danzig, provides new connections serving the north of the country.

In 2009 Dachser generated total revenue of EUR 3.2 billion. 17,500 staff working in 306 profit centres worldwide handled 41.8 million consignments weighing a total of 29.4 million tonnes.  

Kempten/Mannheim, 29 June 2010. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, is investing in the rebuilding of its branch in Mannheim on the Friedrichsfeld-West industrial estate. The company gave the starting signal for the new build at the ground-breaking ceremony on 29 June in the presence of the mayor of Mannheim, Dr Peter Kurz. In the course of the next few years Dachser will create up to 50 new jobs, increasing to up to 100 new jobs over the long term.
Due to insufficient capacities at the current location and the continuously increasing demand for intelligent logistics solutions, Dachser is moving its business premises from Steinzeugstraße to Elsa-Brändström-Straße. The start of construction and ground-breaking ceremony took place on 29 June; completion is scheduled for Q2 2011. The investment volume is around 40 million euros.

The new logistics facility is being built on a 130,000-square-metre site. Dachser is constructing a 9,100-square-metre transshipment hall for industrial goods and a 3,750-square-metre transshipment hall for temperature-controlled goods. There will also be a warehouse for chilled and non-chilled goods with 12,600 pallet spaces, as well as an administrative building. The eco-friendly construction technique will be underscored by the installation of a photovoltaic system with a surface area of approx. 9,600 square metres. This will generate energy with an output of around 600 kWp, saving around 4,200 kilograms of CO₂ per year. An expansion option exists for construction of the transshipment hall and warehouse for industrial goods in a second building phase.

“We will have sufficient space in future to expand our range of services to the benefit of our customers in the region,” says branch manager Christian Klein. The new site is conveniently located near the A656, A5 and A6 motorways. “The Dachser branch connects the heart of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region with all major economic centres in Europe and overseas and has a strong position within our network,” underscores Dachser managing director Michael Schilling. Dachser Mannheim also operates a Dachser Air & Sea Logistics facility and from here handles intercontinental goods flows for its customers.
The Dachser family enterprise currently employs a staff of around 250 in Mannheim. The branch is presently training 30 young people in various different professions. In the medium term there are plans to create up to 50 new jobs, possibly increasing to as many as 100 over the long term.

In 2009 Dachser generated total revenue of EUR 3.2 billion. 17,500 staff working in 306 profit centres worldwide handled 41.8 million consignments weighing a total of 29.4 million tonnes.

Kempten/Shanghai, 28 May 2010. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, is presenting new customer solutions at transport logistic China 2010. The trade fair takes place from 8 to 10 June at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.

In addition to its transport, warehousing and contract logistics services, the company will this year be introducing a number of innovations at its 140-square-metre stand: with dedicated services for the consumer electronics, renewable energies and automotive sectors, Dachser has developed solutions for product segments where production is mainly based in Greater China and goods and components are imported and exported around the world.
One example: In the renewable energies segment, solutions for producers, project planners and retailers are closely coordinated. Dachser staff is specially trained in the handling of the sensitive components. The solution also encompasses management and synchronization of worldwide procurement logistics as well as special safety standards. The range of services on offer is complemented by project-related warehousing, customs clearance and permanent monitoring, through to recycling. “The integration of our air and sea freight services with European overland services and contract logistics allows us to offer customers worldwide tailor-made solutions,” says Thomas Reuter, managing director of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics.
This will already be Dachser’s fourth appearance at Asia's biggest Exhibition for Logistics, Telematics and Transport in Shanghai. For 2010, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting that China’s gross domestic product will grow by 9%. Demand for high-quality logistics services is high. Chinese industrial and retail companies particularly value intelligent logistics along the entire supply chain.

Dachser Far East Ltd. is represented at 15 locations in Greater China. “The trade fair is an ideal time and opportunity to demonstrate to our customers that with us they can realize integrated logistics solutions the world over that operate smoothly regardless of fluctuations in the economy,” says Edoardo Podestá, managing director Greater China.

In 2009, Dachser generated total revenue of EUR 3.2 billion. 17,500 staff working in 306 profit centres worldwide handled 41.8 million consignments weighing a total of 29.4 million tonnes.

Northampton / Kempten, 27th April, 2010 International logistics provider, Dachser, has expanded its service network in the UK through the acquisition of north-west based regional and national distribution specialist, Leach Distribution.

Through the recently completed asset deal, Dachser has acquired the UK transport and distribution business of J.A. Leach Transport Limited, located in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. The Leach Distribution facilities, located in a key industrial area of the UK and well situated to serve the whole of the north of England, represent a significant expansion to Dachser’s presence in the UK market, adding to the existing branch offices in Northampton and Dartford.

“This investment will strengthen our market position in the UK and create operational synergies with Dachser’s established international network. Customers will benefit from the combination of a regional presence and our integrated pan-European pallet and full-load services as well as Dachser’s global network,” says Nick Lowe, Dachser’s UK Managing Director.

“Dachser and Leach are an ideal fit,” says Lowe, “Both share the same traditional values of personalised, high-quality service levels; both are family-owned enterprises. In addition Dachser will be able to bring new levels of investment in IT and infrastructure to the current Leach resources,” he added.

John Leach commented: ‘ I am delighted that my business, which was started by my Grandfather in 1910, will be passing into a very safe pair of hands with Dachser. I am sure that this development will present great opportunities for all our staff and customers.’

Attractive employer
Leach’s staff will join the Dachser family enterprise that currently employs a total of 240 staff in the UK and some 17,500 worldwide. Over the next nine months, a carefully planned integration of the Leach business into Dachser UK will take place, giving the new colleagues access to Dachser training and staff development programmes. Lowe underlines an established Dachser philosophy: “Having professionally trained and motivated staff is a decisive factor for success in modern-day logistics.”

Leach currently operates a fleet of 40 vehicles and has over 7,300 square metres of warehouse space. As the new branch of Dachser, the Rochdale base, perfectly located close to the M62 corridor and within easy reach of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Hull, will enable the pan-European service provider to meet the growing demand of its customers for their distribution and logistics solutions in the north of England.  

In 2009 Dachser globally generated total revenues of EUR 3.2 billion. In the same year 17,500 staff working in 306 profit centres worldwide handled 41.8 million consignments weighing a total of 29.4 million tonnes.

Expanded freight services between the Baltic, the Adriatic and the Black Sea

Kempten/Bratislava, 21.04.2010. In the Slovakian capital of Bratislava, Dachser has for the past three years operated a key logistics hub serving central and eastern Europe. Since the beginning of April 2010, this now links as many as 11 countries.

Dachser’s Eurohub in Bratislava operates daily precision-timed scheduled services for imports and exports to Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, as well as new routes to Slovenia, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia.

“The introduction of new freight services via our hub enables us to integrate interesting growth markets into our network and offer our customers even better daily shipment times and uniform high quality standards Europe-wide,” says Michael Schilling, Dachser managing director for European Network Management & Logistics.

The logistics provider specializes in pan-European full-coverage delivery and collection and has its own warehouse capacities in all economically relevant regions. Gap-free Tracking & Tracing ensures the transparent flow of information. Consignments are consolidated and distributed around the world via Dachser’s Air & Sea network.

Bratislava is the main logistics transshipment platform for all central and eastern European freight services within the Dachser network and has a direct link to the Eurohub in Überherrn, Dachser’s distribution centre for western Europe.

In 2009, Dachser generated total revenue of EUR 3.2 billion. 17,500 staff working in 306 profit centres worldwide handled 41.8 million consignments weighing a total of 29.4 million tonnes.

Kempten/Pradelle di Nogarole Rocca, 02 March 2010. In February, the internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, and Papp Italia s.r.l. launched their cooperation between Germany and Italy in the chilled food logistics sector.

Founded in 1997, the Italian subsidiary of the Munich-based tradition-rich company, Balthasar Papp, has its head office in Pradelle di Nogarole Rocca. Papp is a recognized Italy expert. The food logistics provider makes regular food deliveries to over 1,000 consignees in Italy via its central transshipment point near Verona. The company handles the majority of its deliveries to Italian retailers itself, but for smaller loads Papp Italia uses an extensive network of partners.

The partnership with Dachser provides Papp with direct access to one of the most efficient food logistics networks in Europe. For Dachser as well as Papp, shipment times for consignments to and from Italy will be shorter. From day one, customers of both companies will receive status information on their consignments on the Internet and be able to trace their whereabouts at all times. The Papp group has four locations, all certified to ISO 9001 and IFS Logistic. Thus Papp ideally matches Dachser’s food logistics concept to offer customers the best possible pan-European service, while ensuring highest levels of food safety. As well as Munich and Verona, Papp is also represented in Ramstein (Palatinate) and Kundl (Austria). In addition to contract and distribution logistics, the company offers its customers a wide range of value-added services. The company has 151 staff and every year handles around 70,000 loads, generating revenue of EUR 72 million in 2008.

“With the switch of contractor, we, together with Papp, are underscoring the key role of Italy as an economic partner to Germany,” says Gerhard Riester, managing director of Dachser Food Logistics. According to data of the Federal Statistical Office, Italy is the most important consumer of German foods and beverages after the Netherlands and its third-largest import partner.
On the occasion of signing the contract, the representatives of both sides clearly expressed their will to take maximum advantage of the opportunities the market offers and further develop the partnership.

In 2008, the internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, generated total revenue of EUR 3.6 billion. 18,175 staff working in 305 profit centres worldwide handled 43.3 million consignments weighing a total of 29.1 million tonnes. In the Food Logistics business segment, the logistics provider transports almost eight million food consignments annually at its 26 locations in Germany alone.

Kempten, 24 February 2010. With effect from 1.4.2010, the internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, will take over management of the marketing of its worldwide air freight services and terminate its cooperation with the Future Group.

Dachser was a member of the air freight joint venture, Future, for twelve years. “The cooperation was extremely successful, and since its foundation the Future Group has been considered a trendsetter in the German air freight sector,” says Thomas Reuter, managing director of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics. “Nevertheless, changing market conditions and our own evolution have made this split a step Dachser has to take,” Reuter continues.

The dynamic growth of Dachser’s Air & Sea Logistics business segment has made it necessary to create new synergies to enable higher freight capacities to be marketed worldwide. Dachser is better able to do this without the heterogeneous partner and branch landscape of the Future Group.

The split from the Future Group is a logical step within the context of Dachser’s expansion strategy. The logistics provider has continuously expanded its global network over the past few years and is aiming at further growth in the future. “Despite a decline in business due to the economic and financial crisis, the demand for international logistics supply chains is growing,” Thomas Reuter says. “We are responding to our customers’ requirements by optimizing and further expanding our network structures.”

In 2008, the internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, generated total revenue of EUR 3.6 billion. 18,175 staff working in 305 profit centres worldwide handled 43.3 million consignments weighing a total of 29.1 million tonnes.

Dachser DIY-Logistics presents its supply pipeline

Kempten/Cologne. 3 February 2010. At this year’s International Hardware Fair in Cologne, you can meet Dachser from 28.2. to 3.3.2010 at stand no. 17 Aisle A Boulevard. With its DIY-Logistics industry solution, the company will be presenting its extended services for the DIY and garden centre segment under the title “supply pipeline”.

Dachser DIY-Logistics’ supply pipeline is synonymous with Dachser’s global logistics solutions for the building and DIY sector. Along the entire goods supply chain – from supplier to point of sale – Dachser offers IT-assisted logistics solutions from a single source. Customers have the possibility to individually combine procurement, distribution, warehousing, value-added services and merchandising modules in line with their requirements. “The close integration of all logistics sub-disciplines enables suppliers and retailers to customize their goods flow management with us while ensuring optimum quality,” says Ralf Meistes, division head of Dachser DIY-Logistics.

Dachser’s local DIY specialists are familiar with retailers’ requirements in the respective markets. Goods are delivered to the approx. 18,000 outlets throughout Europe in the desired rhythm, supported by Dachser’s many years of experience in the provision of merchandising and value-added services. Merchandising includes goods shelving or sales promotion and seasonal placements, as well as special tasks such as store checks, product mix analyses or shelf surveying. Thanks to Dachser’s merchandising service, not only are goods delivered straight to the outlets, but goods shelving is reduced on average from 4.5 days to a single day, ensuring all products are on retailers’ shelves gap-free at all times. Professional returns management completes the portfolio.


Consolidated goods flows
Nowadays, more than one third of all DIY products are manufactured in Asia or the US. Goods from overseas undergo quality checks and are transported to Europe with the help of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics. They are distributed via the Dachser European Logistics full-coverage pan-European overland transport network.

In order to assure sustainability, Dachser pursues clear goals at many levels and across all corporate divisions. This ranges from continuous supply chain optimization, through to individual industry solutions. With multi-user warehouses, as well as source and target region consolidation, double-deck loading, setting up hubs, cross docking and tour optimization economy and ecology go hand in hand. “The goal is always to achieve the highest possible capacity utilization of our transport units, which has a decisive impact on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions: we achieve this through the intelligent management of the supply pipeline,” Meistes says.

In 2008, the internationally operating logistics provider generated total revenue of EUR 3.6 billion. 18,175 staff working in 305 profit centres worldwide handled 43.3 million consignments weighing a total of 29.1 million tonnes.

New national company with a presence in three locations

Kempten/Bucharest, 1 October 2009. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, founds a new country organisation in Romania on 1 October 2009.

The new company, Dachser Romania S.R.L., offers intelligent transport logistics services to Romanian and international customers from both industry and retail. Daily services will link the first three branches to open – in the cities of Arad, Brasov and Bucharest – and connect them to Dachser’s Europe-wide overland freight network. The country manager, and manager of the Bucharest branch, will be the seasoned logistics professional, Traian Dumitrescu, who has nine years of experience of the Romanian market.

Romania is the fifth EU country between the Baltic and the Adriatic, after Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, to join Dachser’s own intercontinental logistics network.

“The speedy introduction of our harmonized European logistics standard in Romania will in future enable us to offer our customers access to a market that is rich in potential,” says Michael Schilling, Managing Director of Dachser European Logistics.

In 2008, the internationally operating logistics provider generated total sales of EUR 3.6 billion. 18,175 staff working in 305 profit centres worldwide handled 43.3 million consignments weighing a total of 29.1 million tonnes.

Kempten, Cottbus. 8 September 2009. At the end of August the big day had come: three months ahead of plan, juwi Solar GmbH and Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States, Wolfgang Tiefensee, inaugurated the world’s second-largest photovoltaic installation. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, was responsible for logistics activities across the entire supply chain for the solar farm, which has been constructed north of Cottbus on the former military training site of Lieberose.

The 162-hectare site has the size of 210 football fields. The farm will help save 35,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year, and with an output of 53 megawatts will produce enough power to cover the electricity needs of about 15,000 households.

Dachser Air & Sea Logistics was entrusted with handling the entire logistics management for the construction of the solar farm. Over the past few months, Dachser has moved 800 twenty-foot containers carrying in excess of 700,000 solar panels and 1,200 truckloads of equipment.

Dachser transported the modules from the manufacturer, First Solar, directly to the construction site, where the logistics provider had erected a 1,000-square-metre storage tent. Dachser coordinated the entire materials management for juwi. The company delivered the solar panels by truck to the technicians just-in-time, ready for installation. This meant Dachser kept distances short and CO₂ emissions to a minimum. In the interests of the environment, the logistics provider returned the extensive cardboard packaging from the solar panels to the manufacturer for recycling.


Dachser is the ideal logistics provider for the internationally operating provider of solar power plants. “Dachser has the necessary expertise, operates internationally and is flexible enough to realize new ideas and concepts such as that in Lieberose,” says Christian Hinsch, head of corporate communications for the internationally operating juwi Group. With a staff numbering around 600 and annual revenue in the region of EUR 600 million, juwi is one of the world’s leading developers of renewable energy projects in the fields of wind, solar and bio energy.

Last year, Dachser Air & Sea Logistics established a centre of excellence in Frankfurt specializing in logistics for renewable energies, which develops supply chain solutions for this sector worldwide.

In 2008, Dachser generated total revenue of EUR 3.6 billion. 18,175 staff working in 305 profit centres worldwide handled 43.3 million consignments weighing a total of 29.1 million tonnes.

The family enterprise invests 50 million euros and creates 60 new jobs

Kempten/Nuremberg, 4 September 2009. Dachser has opened one of the biggest logistics centres in northern Bavaria on a 105,000-square-metre site on the Nürnberg-Feucht-Wendelstein industrial estate. Dachser shareholder Prof. Dr Christa Rohde-Dachser, Dachser managing director Gerhard Riester and branch manager Manfred Hauber welcomed a wide audience of customers as well as guests from politics and associations, including Bavarian premier, Horst Seehofer.

The foundation stone for Dachser’s new logistics centre was laid at the beginning of 2009 and the facility took up operations just before the new year. Now it has been officially inaugurated at a formal ceremony. The logistics centre has a 9,750-square-metre transshipment hall for industrial goods and a 6,000-square-metre temperature-controlled transshipment hall for foodstuffs. 188 trucks can be loaded and unloaded at the same time. A high-shelf warehouse that can be run at different temperatures and provides more than 33,600 pallet spaces is also new. Administrative and technical buildings occupy an area of 5,250 square metres.

“This EUR 50 million investment is possible in the current economic climate because we plan for the long term and reinvest the major part of our profits to ensure a long-term stability of investments,” explains Dachser managing director Gerhard Riester.

The company is expanding its contract logistics services at the new location. This offers industrial customers and food producers the advantage that they can focus on their core competences by outsourcing logistics activities.

The expansion will create additional jobs in the region. In the contract logistics segment alone, 60 new staff will be taken on to join the current workforce of 350 in the medium term. At the present time, the branch is training 30 young people to obtain a Bachelor of Arts with specialization in forwarding, transport and logistics, or to become qualified specialists in forwarding and logistics services, as well as other promising careers in logistics.

Over 520 jobs have so far been created altogether in and around the new logistics centre. “Dachser’s goal is to establish a long-term system of values that safeguards the future of the company and offers staff as well as customers the assurance of being able to continue to count on Dachser as an efficient and reliable partner,“ Dachser shareholder Prof. Dr Christa Rohde-Dachser stressed in her speech.

In Nuremberg, all three of Dachser’s business segments are represented: European Logistics, Food Logistics and Air & Sea Logistics. Customers benefit from a full-coverage European logistics network in over 30 countries. As a key nodal point in Dachser’s pan-European network of groupage systems freight services, the logistics provider operates direct daily services from Nuremberg to over 70 national and international destinations.

In the Food Logistics business segment, Dachser each day accepts refrigerated and non-refrigerated goods (in the 2° to 7° and 12° to 18° Celsius ranges) from leading food producers and delivers them to discount stores, wholesalers and retailers. As a specialist in contract logistics, Dachser Nuremberg is a partner to significant companies in the region, offering order picking, finishing, packaging as well as distribution and warehousing services. The company’s services are rounded off by the activities of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics, which connect the metropolitan region to the worldwide markets.

 “With this investment, we are not only sending a highly visible positive message for Dachser, but also for the whole Nuremberg metropolitan region. The logistics centre conveniently links industry and retailers to our efficient and modern logistics network throughout Europe and the rest of the world,” says Manfred Hauber, head of the Dachser Nuremberg logistics centre.

The company has been operating in the Nuremberg region for over 50 years now and ships around one million consignments a year with a total weight of more than 700,000 tonnes.

In 2008, Dachser generated total sales of EUR 3.6 billion. 18,175 staff working in 305 profit centres worldwide handled 43.3 million consignments weighing a total of 29.1 million tonnes.

Investments of 10 million euros and new jobs in Kürnach

Kempten/Kürnach 2 September 2009. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, is investing 10 million euros in the expansion of its branch in Kürnach. Work started on 24 August and is scheduled for completion in early July 2010.

On its 30,000-square-metre operating site, Dachser Kürnach is currently expanding a transshipment hall by 4,000 square metres and 38 loading bays, as well as adding some 500 square metres to an existing office building. Following completion of the work in July of next year, the facility will have transshipment capacities totalling 7,500 square metres with 82 bays and 1,500 square metres of office space.

“With this expansion, we are increasing our capacities and responding to the growing demand in the region for our logistics services,” says branch manager Karl-Heinz Rauscher. The growth in size is expected to create around 20 new jobs in the medium term. Additionally, the company has acquired a further 30,000 square metres of land for future development.

Dachser’s Kürnach branch was opened in autumn 2001 and today employs a staff of 79. The company is currently training seven young people as qualified specialists in forwarding and logistics services, IT administrators and warehouse logistics specialists.

The logistics provider transports goods from the Würzburg region to a number of countries across Europe via 42 scheduled services. The branch also offers its customers extensive contract logistics services for foodstuffs as well as non-refrigerated goods.

Dachser handles intercontinental air and sea freight consignments via its Nuremberg logistics centre, and thus also connects the region to international procurement and sales markets.

The branch is conveniently located at the intersection of the A7 and A3 motorways with optimal access to Dachser’s pan-European logistics network.

Oldest branch to be made fit for the future

Kempten/Neuss, 30 July 2009. Even in economically difficult times, Dachser is making investments and expanding its branch in Neuss into a modern location.

By the end of 2009, Dachser will construct a 4,500-square-metre administrative building; in spring 2010 a 10,500-square-metre transshipment hall for industrial goods will go into operation. The Dachser site will then cover 110,000 square metres altogether. Branch manager Hans-Peter Landefeld is satisfied with developments: “Even in difficult times, we are investing in expanding our facility. This expansion will enable us to continue in future to optimally serve the needs of our customers for modern logistics services.”

An investment on this scale in the current economic climate is possible for Dachser because the logistics company plans over the long term and reinvests a large part of its profits, contributing in this way to creating future-proof jobs.

The Dachser family enterprise currently employs a staff of around 400 at its Neuss location. In the medium term, an additional 50 new jobs will be created. Landefeld places an important focus on the topic of training. Every year, Dachser in Neuss trains 16 young people as qualified specialists in forwarding and logistics services, office communications assistants, professional drivers and warehouse logistics specialists. Trainees also have the possibility to take a BA course in business administration. “Professionally trained, qualified and motivated staff are the decisive factor for success in modern-day logistics,” the branch manager says.


History of Dachser Neuss
In 1938, the then transport company from the Allgäu region in southern Germany founded its first branch office in Neuss.

In 1981, the company acquired a 72,000-square-metre location on the site of the Neuss “Hochofen” (blast furnace).

The following two decades were characterized by successful growth. By 2006, it had already become clear that the present premises offered no more room for further growth. A new location was needed as the capacities of the existing site had been exploited to the full.

In 2006, a warehouse offering 26,500 pallet spaces on an area of 15,000 square metres was built in several construction phases on a 30,000-square-metre plot.

At the end of 2007, the logistics provider put a new 4,500-square-metre transshipment hall into operation for the Dachser Food Logistics business segment.

In early 2008, a new multi-storey car park was completed, providing staff with 380 parking spaces on four levels.

Hong Kong based DACHSER Far East Ltd. increased its participation in the joint venture company DACHSER Taiwan Inc. gaining now an 80% majority in the cooperation established with the Taiwanese logistics provider Leader Mutual Freight System Inc. five years ago as a 50:50 joint venture.

On 15 March 2004 the logistics provider, DACHSER, and Leader Mutual Freight System launched their cooperation by establishing a 50:50 joint venture (DACHSER Taiwan Inc.).

Managing Director of DACHSER Far East Ltd., Edoardo Podestá, is pleased about the positive development over the past five years and says: “Taiwan is an important market for us. We grow especially in the consumer electronics industry where many of our customers are based enjoying all benefits from both DACHSER global network and from the high-quality services we offer worldwide.”

For this reason, DACHSER has acquired recently another thirty percent share in the Taiwanese joint venture company of which Leader Mutual Freight System is holding currently 20%. The agreement has been signed by Edoardo Podestá, MD of DACHSER Far East and Allen Cheng, CEO of Leader Mutual Freight System.
“We are looking forward to a further successful collaboration with our partner Leader Mutual Freight System and are confident that the additional financial investment and the fact of holding the majority in this joint venture will not only strengthen further our market position but also allow us to offer our customers the standards we set worldwide and the network synergies we achieve through our global organization”, says Thomas Reuter, Managing Director responsible for Air & Sea Logistics at DACHSER.

Currently DACHSER Taiwan Inc. is operating an office in Taipei with 30 employees. In the whole Greater China region the DACHSER Far East team consists of more than 600 staff located in 15 offices generating a consolidated turnover of HKD 1.6 billion excluding inter-company.

Termination of the joint venture with Logimasters. Cooperation to be continued on a partnership basis.

Kempten/Indaiatuba. June 2, 2009. The joint venture partners Dachser and Logimasters are reorganizing the business segments in Brazil and terminated their joint venture with effect from March 31, 2009.

The internationally operating logistics provider is taking over all international business, which is to be consolidated in the newly founded “Dachser Brasil Logística Ltda.” headquartered in Indaiatuba. From there, the logistics provider manages air and sea freight business, including existing partner connections. Furthermore, Dachser Brasil is to acquire 100 percent of the shares in Logiprojects and will thus also coordinate international special and project business from and to Brazil.

With the new company, Dachser is directly connecting the Brazilian market to its international air and sea freight network. Dachser Brasil will continue to cooperate with Logimasters on a partnership basis and will in future forge ahead with the further development of national forwarding and logistics operations.

Dachser Brasil is managed by Richard Frank Schües, a locally and internationally versed logistics manager. Schües was latterly employed with Volkswagen Transport of South America and the shipping line CSAV.

“With this step, we are reinforcing our global air and sea freight network and consolidating our position in the Brazilian growth market. This also paves the way for the important pending integration of our logistics systems,” says Thomas Reuter, Managing Director Air & Sea Logistics at Dachser.

In 2008 Dachser generated total sales of EUR 3.6 billion. 18,175 staff working in 305 profit centres worldwide handled 43.3 million consignments weighing a total of 29.1 million tonnes.

Tailor-made logistics services for the chemical industry 

Kempten/Frankfurt. May 2009. Dachser is a cooperation partner to the Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. (VCI) (German Chemical Industry Association). The internationally operating logistics provider offers small and medium-sized VCI members logistics services especially tailored to meet industry requirements.

In an intensive selection process, the VCI decided in favour of a cooperation with Dachser. For members of the association, the logistics provider develops pan-European transport solutions for groupage shipments weighing between 31.5 kilograms and five tonnes.

Dachser Chem-Logistics offers tailor-made logistics services especially to meet the requirements of the chemical industry. This industry solution draws on the specific chemical logistics know-how of the staff and standardized production processes from one of Europe’s biggest logistics providers.

This industry solution is based on superior safety and quality standards. Dachser regularly organizes staff training courses on a variety of topics such as load safety. A closely meshed network of trained dangerous goods safety advisers in the individual branches ensure compliance with the high standards Dachser has set itself for meeting the requirements of customers in the chemical industry.

The VCI represents the business interests of 1,600 German chemical companies and German subsidiaries of foreign groups vis-à-vis political institutions, authorities, other sectors of the economy, scientific institutions and the media. The VCI stands for over 90 percent of the German chemical industry. In 2007, the industry realized sales of around 174 billion euros with a workforce of over 440,000 employees.

Rebranding process from June 2009

Kempten/La Verrie. 13 May 2009. Ten years after their merger, the internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, and its French subsidiary, Graveleau, have grown together to become a single organic entity. This is now being reflected in the name: Graveleau is to be rebranded as Dachser.

From June 2009, a precisely planned rebranding process will commence in the former Graveleau countries. The current designation “Graveleau, Dachser Group” will be changed: under the Dachser group umbrella brand name, Graveleau will in future utilize the claim “Intelligent Logistics”. The area-wide rebranding of the 2,400 vehicles and the 68 branches in France, Algeria, Bulgaria, Morocco, Portugal, Tunisia and Romania will take place successively up to 2015.

“We trust in the same values, work according to the same principles and produce the same service quality. What’s more, we are crusading together for the success and independence of the whole organization in the global market,” says Philippe Tardieu, PDG (président-directeur général) of Graveleau. He adds: “We have long since merged into one company. Graveleau is now Dachser. And that’s why in future we also want to be known by that name.”

All the basic objectives the logistics provider Dachser wanted to achieve through the merger ten years ago have in the meantime been realized. Bernhard Simon, spokesman for the Dachser management, sums up: “Together, we are one of the major players in the pan-European logistics market and can offer our customers all over the world the advantages of a fully integrated network: uniform products and processes, the same quality and reliability and a completely gap-free IT structure.”

Graveleau has been part of the Dachser group since 1999. Due to the rebranding, the name affixes change as well: The country organization in France for example will be called Dachser France SAS in future. The organization in Portugal will have the name Dachser Portugal SA.

Logistics provider also posts growth in sales for the past fiscal year/presentation of sales figures is adapted to international standards

Kempten, Munich. 12 May 2009. The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, again showed a positive development for the past year, posting an increase in sales for the completed business year of EUR 400 million, which is equivalent to 12% growth.

At the same time, the company is switching over to a group-oriented reporting format. In the past, the company has tended to favour a non-consolidated segment reporting approach to present its sales figures. The new presentation of consolidated gross sales shows sales of EUR 3.6 billion for fiscal 2008 (non-consolidated EUR 3.9 billion), compared to EUR 3.2 billion (consolidated) or EUR 3.5 billion (non-consolidated) in 2007. The difference is explained by CFO and managing director Dr Dieter Truxius: “For 2008, we are for the first time presenting consolidated sales in order to create greater transparency and comparability at an international level.” Previously, the published figures also included internal sales, which showed the performances of the individual profit centres.

“In past years, we have communicated our sales figures like medium-sized groupage network partners,” confirms management spokesman Bernhard Simon. With the new presentation method, the family enterprise is presenting its sales figures in line with international accounting standards. For 2008, both sales calculations are disclosed. In future, sales will be published on the basis of consolidated figures. The company presents a solid 37% equity ratio.

Increases in staff, consignments and tonnage
All in all, the logistics provider handled 43.3 million consignments last year weighing a total of 29.1 million tonnes. Simon in particular expressed his satisfaction over the continuing good development in the number of employees. At the end of 2008, Dachser employed a staff of 18,175, at 305 locations of whom 10,500 are based in the company’s home country, Germany.

All three core business segments contributed to the positive result
In its core business segment European Logistics, the transport of consolidated goods in the full-coverage European network, Dachser generated consolidated gross sales of EUR 2,360 million.
Dachser Air & Sea Logistics, the global network for intercontinental logistics with activities focused on the USA, Europe and Asia, generated sales of EUR 760 million.
The third business segment, Dachser Food Logistics, posted sales of EUR 450 million for 2008. In food logistics, Dachser offers the combination of full-coverage transport networks and contract logistics. Dachser is a leading provider in the German food logistics market.
Additional other sales amounted to around EUR 45 million.

Outlook for 2009
Dachser, too, is not immune to the current economic crisis. The company, like most others, is not making any exact forecast for 2009.
“Dachser has a diversified customer structure. We will to some extent be able to cushion crisis-induced downturns in individual sectors through good market acceptance on the part of new customers,” Bernhard Simon explains.
At the same time, the family-owned company is continuing to invest in the expansion of its worldwide logistics network: in Q1 2009, Dachser established new locations in Chile, Thailand and Bangladesh. With numerous site expansions in Europe, the acquisition and integration of the food logistics specialist Tank and the opening of the Dachser Academy in Cologne, Dachser is giving a clear signal that it is investing in the extension of its customer-oriented network and the qualification of its staff.

Ground-breaking ceremony for the rebuilding of the branch

Kempten/Koblenz, 07 May 2009. Dachser is investing 12 million euros in the rebuilding of its branch in Koblenz. At the ground-breaking ceremony yesterday, Koblenz mayor Dr Eberhard Schulte-Wissermann, Dachser managing director Bernhard Simon and branch manager Frank Walter gave the starting signal for the expansion.

The new logistics facility is being built on a 55,000-square-metre site which has a direct connection to the A61 motorway. By the end of 2009, Dachser will construct a 6,650-square-metre transshipment hall for industrial goods. This will have over 66 hall bays and can in the future be extended by a further 2,650 square metres. For the administrative building, a surface area of 1,850 square metres is planned.

“To enable us to continue in future to optimally serve the needs of our customers between the Rhine and Moselle rivers, the decision was taken to completely rebuild the Koblenz facility,” says branch manager Frank Walter. Bernhard Simon, spokesman for the Dachser management adds: “This investment will strengthen our presence in the region around Koblenz. Customers appreciate our combination of regional competence and a closely meshed pan-European logistics network.”

Attractive employer
The Dachser family enterprise currently employs a staff of around 100 at its Koblenz location. In the medium term there are plans to create 50 more jobs. In addition, the family-owned business secures 80 jobs in regional companies that cooperate with Dachser. Frank Walter places an important focus on the issue of training. Every year, Dachser trains six young people in Koblenz as qualified specialists in forwarding and logistics services, professional drivers and warehouse logistics specialists. Walter says: “Professionally trained, qualified and motivated staff are the decisive factor for success in modern-day logistics.”

On 8 and 9 May, Dachser will be represented at the “Azubi & Studientage” training and study days in Koblenz. At this trade fair for training and studies, Dachser staff will be informing about career prospects and development opportunities in the logistics sector.

The internationally operating logistics provider, Dachser, employs a staff of more than 18,000 at over 300 locations worldwide.

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Ground-breaking ceremony at Dachser in Koblenz: l. to r. Markus Wiegand, Dachser Cologne branch manager, Jürgen Czielinski, Office for Economic Development, Dr Eberhard Schulte-Wissermann, mayor of the City of Koblenz, Bernhard Simon, spokesman for the Dachser management, Frank Walter, Dachser Koblenz branch manager.

Over 5,000 Dachser customers utilize Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) 

Kempten - 29 Apr, 2009 - The international logistics provider, Dachser, has in the past two years more than doubled the number of its customers who utilize Electronic Data Interchange.

“Moët Hennessy Deutschland GmbH” is the 5,000th Dachser customer to rely on EDI. In the handling of warehousing and transport operations, the customer and Dachser’s Nuremberg branch exchange a wide range of data formats. In addition to purchase orders and delivery orders, Dachser can on request also send the delivery notification to the consignee. At the same time, inventories are transmitted electronically on a daily basis, allowing the participating ERP systems to work at all times with the most up-to-date data. “Through data interchange with and via Dachser, we have achieved a level of information quality and timeliness that meets our quality standards as a producer of premium products, as well as those of our customers,” stresses Frank Floc'hlay, managing director of Moët Hennessy Deutschland.

An increasing number of customers are discovering the benefits of EDI: being up-to-date, no interface problems, speed and data security. They transmit their data electronically to Dachser’s EDI centre. This serves as a central communications platform between the logistics company, its customers and partners. Dachser draws on internationally recognized technical standards. In the meantime, 17 of the 218 IT specialists employed at Dachser’s Kempten head office are responsible for EDI communication. “EDI brings the participating companies significant increases in efficiency because they save time and avoid errors,“ says Michael Schilling, managing director of Dachser European Logistics. Dachser exchanges over 25 million forwarding orders as well as loading and unloading lists with its EDI partners every year.

The internationally active logistics provider, Dachser, currently employs a staff of more than 18,000 at over 300 locations worldwide.

New joint venture in Bangladesh

Kempten/Dhaka - 28 Apr 2009 - As part of the global expansion of its intercontinental network, the international logistics provider, Dachser, founded a joint venture in Bangladesh at the end of March.

The beginning of April saw the launch of the joint venture trading under the name of Dachser Bangladesh Ltd., which specializes in air and sea freight as well as logistics services. The head office is in Dhaka, the country’s capital. The majority shareholder of the company is AFL Dachser Pvt Ltd., furthermore the logistics manager Syed Sadaquat Hossain has shares in the joint venture. He has been active in the region for over 25 years. Dachser Bangladesh will be represented at three locations in Dhaka City, at Dhaka Airport and in Chittagong.

Despite the present crisis, Bangladesh’s economy is currently on a steady path of growth, positioning it better than other countries of the region. A number of companies in the textiles industry, predominantly from China, Japan and Europe, are expanding or relocating their production to Bangladesh.

Dachser Bangladesh is managed by Syed Sadaquat Hossain, Detlev Janik, who is also chief executive officer of the German-Indian joint venture AFL Dachser Pvt Ltd., and Nipul Chandiwala, chief financial officer of AFL Dachser Pvt Ltd.

“Our goal is to quickly advance to the top five logistics providers in this dynamic growth market,” says Thomas Reuter, managing director of Dachser Air & Sea Logistics. Dachser is in the meantime represented in Asia through branches of its own in China, India, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and Bangladesh.

The internationally active logistics provider, Dachser, currently employs a staff of more than 18,000 at over 300 locations worldwide.

Ground-breaking ceremony for new Food Logistics terminal

Kempten/Hamburg - 27 Mar, 2009 - At the ground-breaking ceremony on 26 March, Hamburg’s senator for economics and labour, Axel Gedaschko, the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Logistics Initiative Hamburg, Prof. Dr Peer Witten, and Director of the Bergedorf District Office, Dr Christoph Krupp, together with Dachser managing directors Bernhard Simon and Gerhard Riester as well as branch manager Arne Anderssohn, gave the starting signal for the expansion of the logistics centre.

“To enable us to continue to optimally meet the requirements of our food customers in northern Germany in the future, we are building a second terminal for temperature-controlled goods,” says Gerhard Riester, managing director of Dachser Food Logistics. The new building is being built on a 35,000-square-metre site in direct proximity to the Hamburg-Allermöhe logistics centre which opened in 2004. The expansion, which will also serve to integrate the Tank Group business acquired in July 2008, encompasses a chilled transshipment warehouse with 5,600 square metres of warehouse space and a hall office covering 2,400 square metres. 61 trucks can be loaded at the same time.

Together with the locations in Langenhagen and Bremen, the Hamburg logistics centre handles pan-European distribution logistics for all north German industry and retail food customers. From September 2009, the Hamburg logistics centre will handle 2,500 shipments daily with a total weight of 1,800 tonnes. The location also serves the Food Logistics business segment as a platform for Scandinavia.

In Hamburg, Dachser employs a staff of 390 in its three business segments European Logistics, Food Logistics and Air & Sea Logistics. Training also has high priority. The company is currently training 35 young people in three office and two operational professions. The family-owned enterprise has been present in Hamburg since 1954.

The internationally active logistics provider, Dachser, currently employs a staff of more than 18,000 at over 300 locations worldwide.

German logistics provider acquires a ten percent share in Azkar

Kempten, Madrid - 19 Mar 2009 - The international logistics provider, Dachser, recently acquired a ten percent share in the Spanish logistics provider Azkar. With this, the two companies are stabilizing the excellent partnership entered into two years ago.

The logistics provider, Dachser, and Azkar launched their cooperation on 15 December 2006. The partnership between the two family-owned enterprises has developed to such a positive degree over the past two years that the managements of both companies have decided to set their business relations on a more stable footing.
For this reason, Dachser has acquired a ten percent stake in the Spanish market leader. Azkar has established a good reputation in Spain and across the borders as a specialist in particular for full-coverage Spanish and international groupage services and contract logistics. Azkar was founded in 1933, and is today the market leader in the Iberian Peninsula, currently employing more than 5,000 staff. The company has a full-coverage groupage network with 73 branches of its own in Spain and Portugal, and generated sales worth around EUR 400 million in 2008.

Dachser managing director Michael Schilling is pleased about the positive development over the past two years. “Azkar is an important partner for us, who sets the same exacting standards in logistics as we do.“ In terms of their philosophy and size, the two companies complement each other ideally. “We are confident that the financial participation will bring a new degree of positive cooperation to the partnership.”

The international logistics provider, Dachser, employs more than 18,000 staff working in over 300 profit centres worldwide.