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ArticleGM's Layer moves to US purchasing role
General Motor’s Peter Layer, head of Global Purchasing and Supply Chain Russia/CIS, is moving to a new role for the carmaker in North America as director, Purchasing, Chassis Systems. He will be based in Warren, Michigan.Layer is being replaced by Rowina Fornica who is moving to take up the role ...
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ArticleThai-Tang to replace Brown as Ford’s global purchasing leader
Ford’s Tony Brown, group vice-president of global purchasing, has announced he is retiring after a 36-year career, 11 of which were spent as Ford’s purchasing boss. He will be replaced by Hau Thai-Tang (pictured), who is currently vice-president of engineering. Ford said Thai-Tang’s extensive experience leading the company’s global engineering ...
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ArticleBlank takes up role at Agility in Europe
Thomas Blank has taken up a new role at integrated logistics provider Agility as managing director of Area Central Europe. He replaces Thomas Peikert who has left the company after 23 years.Blank moves from his previous role as vice-president and managing director of Geodis Global Solutions for the Asia Pacific ...
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ArticleTop changes at DB Schenker in the UK
DB Schenker Rail (UK) is appointing Geoff Spencer as its new CEO from the start of September this year. Spencer returns to the UK after three years as head of European Resource Management in the European DB Schenker Rail organisation, based in Mainz, Germany.“I am delighted to welcome Geoff Spencer ...
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ArticleHasenfuss heads procurement at VW Commercial Vehicles
Jörn Hasenfuss is the new head of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ Procurement division, replacing Rüdiger Koch who is taking up a new role within the VW Group.Hasenfuss, who is now member of the Management Board for the division, moves over from his role as first vice-president and commercial executive vice president ...
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ArticleRZD Logistics re elects Baskakov as chairman
Russian Railways Logistics has appointed Petr Baskakov as its chairman for a second year. Baskakov is CEO of TransContainer.Since 2003, Baskakov has been the head of TransContainer branch of OJSC Russian Railways and later OJSC TransContainer when it was formed as a joint stock company in 2006. He has more ...
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ArticleBVL appoints Sabine Hucke as MD
Sabine Hucke has been appointed managing director of Germany’s logistics interest group BVL (Bundesvereiningung Logistik). She takes over from Jörn Fontius who is leaving the BVL after eight years to pursue other career opportunities.Hucke was previously head of Central Logistics at car interiors supplier F.S. Fehrer Automotive and brings wide-ranging ...
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ArticleYusen’s Veitch wins warehousing award
Ian Veitch, managing director of Yusen Logistics (UK), has won the chairman’s award at the UK Warehousing Association’s annual awards.The award is presented to an individual or company who has made “a real and lasting contribution to the logistics industry”."I am absoutely delighted to receive this award," said Veitch. "It ...
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ArticleConner takes the helm at WWL
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has a new president and CEO following the departure of Arild Iversen, who is moving on to a new role as consultant to WWL and its parent companies Wilhelmsen Lines and Wilhelmsen ASA.Christopher Conner (pictured), who was most recently deputy CEO and chief commercial officer, began the ...
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ArticleRiggs honoured as entrepreneur
Mike Riggs, chairman of Jack Cooper Holdings, has been recognised for his entrepreneurship at the Central Midwest regional heat of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 Awards. The award, held annually by the global accountancy, recognises outstanding high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Gerrit Hes,Brian Taylor,Jesper Hansen,Erik Jonnaert,
Gerrit Hes has left his position as managing director at Koopman Logistics Group, a role he has been in for the last five years. According to a letter sent out by Siebe Koopman, director of parent company Koopman Holding, Hes decided to stand down from his position on June ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Michael Kluger, Mark Ellis, Herbert de Saint Simon, Michael Hawes
Michael Kluger has taken up a new role as vice president of the Commercial Division at Neovia Logistics. Kluger has been working as a visiting lecturer at the Baden-Würtemberg Cooperative State University since October 2012, a position he took up when he left DB Schenker Deutschland where ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Dan Bednarzyk, David Aldana, Jim Barnett, Jean-Paul Vignal, Oliver Mélot, Yves Fargues
Dan Bednarzyk, foremerly vice president of Nissan’s Canton Vehicle Assembly Plant in the US, has moved to the newly-created position at the carmaker of vice president, Total Delivered Cost. In his new role Bednarzyk is leading Nissan's efforts to maximise the company's total delivered cost efficiency across all model ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Santiago Castro, Jan Bures, Masamichi Kogai, Alexander Raczynski, Carl Gustaf Göransson, Remco Innemee, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Yutaka Nakagawa, James Squires, Michael McClellan, Je
Santiago Castro has been appointed sales and exports director for Nissan Latin America and the Caribbean (NLAC). He will report to Jose Roman, managing director for Nissan Latin America and the Caribbean. Nissan's Latin America and the Caribbean division includes 37 countries and during fiscal year 2012 sold ...
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ArticleKrathwohl leaves GM amid reshuffle
Christine Krathwohl has left her role as the executive director for global logistics and supplier diversity at General Motors as the company made changes to its senior executive staff. Edgard Pezzo, who was previously GM South America’s vice-president of global purchasing and supply chain, has already taken over as ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Ed Wilson, Joerg Schnackenberg, Anu Goel, Fred Diaz, Reid Bigland, Justin Arnold, David Whyte, Linda Mitchell
Ed Wilson is moving from his role as manager of port operations and metrics at Volkswagen Group of America to take up a new position as general manager of vehicle logistics at the carmaker. From 1st May this year he will be responsible for all vehicle logistics activities supporting ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move:Johann Schuberthan, Jügen Maidl, Karl May, Heath Holtz, Ben Shain, Avril Palmer-Baunack, Alan Kelsey, Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Philippe Gilbert
Johann Schuberthan will retire from his role as BMW’s head of Inbound Logistics and Logistics Planning at the end of this month, with a successor (yet to be announced) in place by the beginning of June this year. Schuberthan had been in the role for four years. BMW has ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Scott Mize, Robert Pitt, Emmanuel Boudon, Larry Pavey, Michael McClelland, Julie Krehbiel, Patrick Bauer, Gilles Cudia, Monika Ribar, Peter Ulber, Matt Yearling, Yasunobu Hirag
Scott Mize, previously national manager of Vehicle Logistics at Glovis America, has taken up a new role at Nissan North America as manager of Purchasing. Prior to his short tenure at Glovis, Mize was manager of national transportation, Mazda North America Operations. There have also been moves at the ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move: Conway Jeffress, Greg Henninger, Hiroto Saikawa, Anthony Laydon, Anthony Laydon, Connie Tang,
Conway Jeffress has settled into his new role as global director of automotive at freight forwarding and logistics provider, Jas Forwarding Worldwide. Jeffress was previously vice-president of automotive at Panalpina but said that because of its restructuring of industry verticals and executive responsibilities, the time was right to make ...
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ArticleBo Andersson on being a leader
He describes on video the challenges of turning round GAZ and the approach he took