Personnel news from intralogistics and logistics

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Picavi expands its management team

Picavi GmbH is now relying on a management trio: Carsten Funke and Ralph Schraven have been added to the management team of the pick-by-vision specialist.

New board members

DB Schenker positions itself for the future

Two top international managers are joining the Management Board. Dutchman Hessel Verhage, pictured, who as Executive Vice President "Global Strategy and Transformation" at Schenker is driving the company's further development, has been promoted to the top management team.

Change in an important position

José Miguel Sobradillo new Sales Manager EMEA at AR Racking

José Miguel Sobradillo has been appointed as the new EMEA Sales Director for conventional solutions at AR Racking, a specialist in industrial storage systems.

Marcus A. Wassenberg is his name

KION Group appoints new Chief Financial Officer

KION GROUP AG is strengthening its Executive Board with the appointment of Marcus Wassenberg as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Valeria Gargiulo as Chief People and Sustainability Officer (CPSO).

Successor to Alexander Tonn

Dachser appoints Andreas Fritsch as Managing Director European Logistics Germany

As Managing Director European Logistics Germany, Andreas Fritsch will lead and further expand Dachser's German business in the transportation and warehousing of industrial goods from January 1.

Hans-Georg Frey retires in 2023

Change in the Supervisory Board of Jungheinrich AG

The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Jungheinrich AG, Hans-Georg Frey, has informed the company that he will resign from his office as a member of the Supervisory Board and thus also as its Chairman with effect from the end of the Annual General Meeting on May 11, 2023.

The new ones!

Pallet pioneers enter the Logistics Hall of Fame

Oliver Richter, father of the CHEP pallet rental pool, and George Raymond Sr, founder of The Raymond Corporation, enter the logistics hall of fame posthumously as pallet pioneers - as do the UIC and EPAL associations.

Change of leadership

Tobias Gercke is the new Managing Director at Räder-Vogel

On October 1, Tobias Gercke (48) took over the management of the Räder-Vogel family business. The managing partners Dieter Henning (79) and his son Carsten Henning (50) are leaving the operational management of the company.

His name is Jens Lübbersmeyer

EPAL Germany appoints new Field Manager

Since October 1, EPAL Germany, the largest national committee of the European Pallet Association e. V., has strengthened its team with the addition of Field Manager Jens Lübbersmeyer.

What worries Würmser - the column

Alien and technology

What could Ridley Scott's classic film "Alien" possibly have to do with logistics? More on this later. Whether truck driver, warehouse specialist or delivery driver - there is a shortage of staff in logistics, and no one even wants to be an apprentice anymore.

Interview with SSi Schäfer's CEO

"It is important that the direction is right"

During Logimat, materialfluss editor-in-chief Martin Schrüfer spoke at length with Steffen Bersch, CEO of the SSI Schaefer Group.

Strategy: Pfenning Logistics

"Our USP is the combination of warehousing and transportation"

The logistics service provider Pfenning Logistics has also made a name for itself in recent years with the development of logistics real estate. materialfluss editor-in-chief Martin Schrüfer spoke to Managing Director Martin Königstein about the development of the enterprising company.

Focus on digitalization

Karsten Bley new Managing Director of Sievert Logistik

Sievert Logistik SE has a new top management team: Karsten Bley has been responsible for the Westphalian logistics service provider's business since September 1.

64 new apprentices and dual students

Still welcomes the innovators of tomorrow

On September 1, intralogistics provider Still welcomed a total of 64 new trainees and dual students to the company headquarters in Hamburg and its seven branches.

Successor to Bengt van Beuningen

Handover of baton at Port of Hamburg Marketing

Bengt van Beuningen, Head of Communications and Information at Hafen Hamburg Marketing e.V., left the Port of Hamburg's marketing organization as planned on 31 August.

1,000 employees

4flow continues its global growth on four continents

From 5 to 1,000: what began 22 years ago with a handful of employees in Berlin has grown into a major provider of logistics consulting, logistics software and logistics management with over 20 branches in Europe, China, North and South America.