Afterwards, each location will continue to celebrate offline. "We are proud of our 50-year history, during which we have established ourselves as the market leader for temperature-controlled pharmaceutical logistics in Germany," says Wolfgang P. Albeck, CEO of trans-o-flex, on the occasion of the anniversary. "This is primarily thanks to our employees. Their commitment and expertise, their ideas and their customer-oriented service have brought trans-o-flex to where we are today. With our unique logistics network and decades of experience in shipping temperature- and time-sensitive goods, we believe we are very well positioned to further expand our market share. In the future, trans-o-flex will continue to focus on individual customer service and excellent quality."

From fast delivery service to international specialist logistics provider
The origins of trans-o-flex lie in pharmaceutical wholesale. Founded on October 30, 1971, trans-o-flex was the umbrella brand of a consortium that wanted to provide fast and reliable direct deliveries to pharmacies. To this end, five forwarding companies from Germany joined forces and founded the first nationwide "express delivery service" for pharmaceuticals in Germany. To ensure greater flexibility than standard transport networks, an integrated transport network was used from the outset, which could transport goods safely both in parcels and on pallets.

From 1988, trans-o-flex offered warehousing, order picking and individual value-added services in addition to pure transportation. From the very beginning, these services were directly linked to the transport network in order to provide customers with particularly late order times, maximum transparency and relief. After the company recorded sales of more than EUR 500 million for the first time in 2007, Österreichische Post AG took over full ownership of trans-o-flex in 2008.

The current majority shareholders Schoeller Group and Amberger Group rejoined trans-o-flex in 2016, after the two logistics experts had already been shareholders in the company for around two years in the 1990s. In Wolfgang P. Albeck, they found an experienced logistics manager who consistently developed the company into a premium express service for the healthcare, cosmetics, consumer electronics and other sensitive goods sectors. Since Albeck took over as CEO, trans-o-flex has been sustainably in the black and most recently achieved earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of EUR 31 million for the first half of 2021.

Thanks to its specialization and quality approach, the company believes it is ideally positioned for strong national and international growth in the future. "The coronavirus pandemic has once again underlined the vital importance of safe temperature-controlled pharmaceutical transportation," says Albeck. In November 2020, trans-o-flex was appointed a partner of the Federal Republic of Germany's civil emergency road transport system due to the efficiency of its transport and logistics networks and its important position in the German pharmaceutical supply chain.

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