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DACHSER is one of Europe's leading logistics service providers

With EUR 5.7 billion in revenue and over 27,000 employees worldwide, DACHSER SE is one of Germany's 50 largest family-owned enterprises. It includes both divisions DACHSER Road Logistics and DACHSER Air & Sea Logistics.

Since 1 January 2005, Bernhard Simon, grandson of the company’s founder Thomas Dachser, has been CEO. With him, a representative of the third generation has taken charge of the company’s destiny. In 2008, Bernhard Simon received the coveted award “Family-owned Enterprise of the Year,” presented by the INTES Academy for family-owned enterprises and the business magazine IMPULSE.

The company (as of 2017):

Company name

 

DACHSER SE

 

Founded

 

1930

 

Management Board

 

Bernhard Simon (Chair), Michael Schilling (Deputy Chair), Burkhard Eling, Thomas Reuter, Rüdiger Klug, Alfred Miller, Wolfgang Reinel, Alexander Tonn.

 

Employees

 

29,098

 

Annual revenue

 

EUR 6.1 billion

 

Sites (worldwide)

 

396

 

Shipments

 

81.7 milion

 

Tonnage

 

39.9 milion

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