Gebrüder Weiss: Change of leadership in Switzerland
The start of July saw Thomas Niederer step into his new role as Switzerland’s Country Manager for Land Transport at the international transport and logistics company, Gebrüder Weiss. He succeeds Oskar Kramer who is retiring after 45 years with the company. “Oskar Kramer’s many decades of hard work and dedication have been pivotal in making […]
Gebrüder Weiss enlarges logistics center in Budapest
The transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has enlarged its logistics facility at the Dunaharaszti location near Budapest. The new logistics complex covers 10,000 square meters and includes office space, a handling facility, and a high-bay warehouse. The logistics company is creating additional storage capacity for its customers. In addition, in future, all Home Delivery […]
Cycling to the moon and back: Gebrüder Weiss launches a new competition
Gebrüder Weiss again calls cyclists to participate in the company’s international cycling campaign “GWcycles”. Starting on March 25, cycling enthusiasts worldwide will be pedalling for all they are worth. The goal of the sports competition in 2024 is ambitious: cycling to the moon and back. International participants have until September 30 to cover the distance […]
Gebrüder Weiss maintains course in 2023
Logistics company Gebrüder Weiss invests 187 million euros to expand its global network and leverages its solar power to meet electricity needs in the DACH Region. The international transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss ended its 2023 fiscal year with a net revenue of 2.47 billion euros (2022: 3 billion euros). Despite this decline, the […]
Tradition meets change
The logistics industry is undergoing rapid and dynamic changes, influenced by both external and internal factors. Events like COVID have resulted in a fluctuation in the flow of goods, while digitalisation and automation are transforming operations. “The history of Gebrüder Weiss goes back over 500 years. There’s always been change and we’ve got used to […]
Gebrüder Weiss now uses eco-friendly electric tricycles
Providing delivery services on Croatian islands with their small towns and narrow streets has never been easy. This is why Gebrüder Weiss has started to offer its customers a particularly eco-friendly transport solution this summer: the logistics company now uses electric tricycles for deliveries to private homes and companies located on the islands of Rab […]
Gebrüder Weiss strengthens German Air & Sea network with acquisition of freight forwarder B+A in Nuremberg
Gebrüder Weiss is expanding its German network by acquiring B+A Luft- und Seefrachtspedition GmbH in Nuremberg. The new wholly owned subsidiary, which specializes in the import and export of groupage freight containers between Asia and Germany, will be integrated into the Gebrüder Weiss network as of June 27, 2023. “Nuremberg is one of the top […]
Gebrüder Weiss announces a new location in Albania
Gebrüder Weiss opened a new location in the Albanian capital of Tirana on 6th February, closing the geographical gap between Montenegro and North Macedonia and enabling the international transport and logistics company to expand its transport connections in South-Eastern Europe. Gebrüder Weiss locations in the West Balkans include Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. […]
Gebrüder Weiss focuses on growth in Turkey’s logistics market
International transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss is preparing for Turkey’s growing appeal to European importers and exporters by making more specialists and transport connections available. The main focus is on transports between Turkey and its key trading partner, Germany, as well as the Benelux countries. Early in December, as part of expanding its services, […]
Gebrüder Weiss targets climate neutrality by 2030
As a modern logistics service provider, Gebrüder Weiss has set the goal of gradually reducing the company’s carbon footprint to zero with its sustainability strategy GWcares, aiming to make the company’s logistics facilities climate-neutral by 2030. This is one of the ways in which the company is facing up to its responsibility and contributing to […]
Partners for 45 years: Gebrüder Weiss and Hellmann
Two logistics giants celebrate their brass anniversary. It has now been 45 years since Gebrüder Weiss and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics embarked on their partnership together. Representatives of the two companies came together at the Gebrüder Weiss branch in Vienna, where they looked back on the past and everything that had been achieved. “What unites us […]
On your bike: Gebrüder Weiss launches international campaign
On April 1, the logistics company Gebrüder Weiss launched a campaign entitled “Cycling around the World,” open to cyclists around the world. Cyclists use an app to record and count the kilometres covered through to the end of September. The original aim was to cycle a total distance of 40,075 kilometres throughout the campaign – […]
Gebrüder Weiss charters largest cargo aircraft for project cargo to Poland
Gebrüder Weiss has chartered the world’s largest cargo plane, transporting goods from China to Poland. The Antonov An-225 landed at the airport, located 170 kms east of Krakow, in the late evening of November 13, carrying project-based cargo for the Polish industry on board. The Antonov had left the Chinese airport of Tianjin a day […]
Gebrüder Weiss takes over 3S Transport & Logistics
The international transport and logistics service provider Gebrüder Weiss is taking over Istanbul-based 3S Transport & Logistics with effect from January 1 2022. The Turkish forwarding company specialises in partial load transports between Turkey and its key trading partner Germany. With this step Gebrüder Weiss Turkey doubles its transport volume and positioning itself as a […]
Gebrüder Weiss expands in Straubing
The transport and logistics provider Gebrüder Weiss is taking over the operations of Wolf Internationale Spedition GmbH and Air System Luftfracht Spedition GmbH in the Lower Bavarian town of Straubing. The companies’ 20 employees possess considerable expertise in international forwarding – in both the land transport and air and sea freight sectors. The new Gebrüder […]
Gebrüder Weiss: myGW customer portal is a success
One year after the launch of its digital customer portal myGW, the logistics company Gebrüder Weiss sees it has been a resounding success. The online tool already has over 12,000 users in 18 countries, with the benefits brought by it confirmed in an internal satisfaction survey (rating: 4.5 out of a possible five stars). The […]
Gebrüder Weiss acquires Spedition Lode
With effect of October 1 this year, the international transport and logistics provider Gebrüder Weiss will be acquiring Spedition Lode GmbH – which is based in Waldkraiburg, Bavaria. Following the 100% takeover of the family-owned specialists in land transport and warehouse logistics, its 60 employees will be joining the ranks of Gebrüder Weiss. The parties […]
Gebrüder Weiss remains number 1 in Altach
Gebrüder Weiss had expanded its partnership with the soccer club CASHPOINT SCR Altach and now outfits all of the club’s goalkeepers. Everyone from the youth to the professional teams will wear the Gebrüder Weiss orange jersey in the future. The partnership between Gebrüder Weiss and SCR Altach launched in 2019 when the goalkeepers of the […]
Gebrüder Weiss wins gold at the Austrian Export Prizes 2021
Gebrüder Weiss was awarded the Gold Export Prize for the category of Transport and Traffic by the Austrian Economic Chambers (Wirtschaftskammer Österreich, WKO) on June 29. The company was presented with this prestigious award during the Exporters’ Nite held at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier. According to the jury, this logistics company managed to successfully expand its international […]
Gebrüder Weiss acquires Rhenus Bulgaria
The international logistics company Gebrüder Weiss is taking over the business of Rhenus Bulgaria. The purchase agreement was recently signed in Sofia, and the acquisition awaits approval by the antitrust authorities. Rhenus has been a long-standing partner of Gebrüder Weiss in many countries and is now withdrawing from the Bulgarian market in the Road segment. […]
Gebrüder Weiss expands in Hungary
Gebrüder Weiss is gaining traction in Hungary. With a comprehensive investment package of around €30 million, the logistics company is underscoring its strong market position and setting the course for further growth over the next five years. Two strategically important locations in Zalaegerszeg (western Hungary) and Pécs (southern Hungary) will enter service in June. They […]
Gebrüder Weiss moves into new logistics centre near Graz
International transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has opened a new location in Kalsdorf near Graz, Austria. The state-of-the-art terminal with a total area of around 70,000 sq m replaces the previous logistics facility in the Styrian capital. The logistics company has invested around €28 million in the new building, which was completed in less […]
Gebrüder Weiss demonstrates resilience
The international transport and logistics company, Gebrüder Weiss posted net sales of €1.77 billion in its 2020 financial year. This represents a year-on-year increase of 3.7% (2019: €1.71 billion). As such, the company continues to drive the growth it has been generating in previous years. “Key to our positive development was the fact that we […]
Successful rollout at Gebrüder Weiss as 1,000 customers use myGW
With only a month having passed since its launch, the new digital customer portal of Gebrüder Weiss has already reached the one-thousand-customer mark: the corrugated cardboard plant TEWA GmbH in Carinthia is the 1,000th customer to have integrated myGW into its processes. The myGW platform provides customers with real-time cross-divisional information about their flow of […]
Gebrüder Weiss opens new representative office in Christchurch
Gebrüder Weiss has opened a new representative office for air and sea freight services in Christchurch, the largest city on New Zealand’s South Island. This is the second location, after Auckland, that the globally active transport and logistics service provider has opened this year in New Zealand, further evidence of the company’s work to further […]
Gebrüder Weiss given the green light for Ipsen takeover
Gebrüder Weiss’s strategic takeover of Ipsen Logistics was contractually fixed back at the end of July. Now that the responsible antitrust authorities in Germany and Austria have given their approval, the takeover will now be implemented as of October 1. Gebrüder Weiss will take on the 180 employees spread across eight locations, thereby strengthening its […]
Gebrüder Weiss selects BluJay’s LSP Platform
BluJay Solutions, a leading provider of global supply chain software and services, has announced that Gebrüder Weiss GmbH selected BluJay’s LSP Platform, a powerful supply chain execution technology solution the company will deploy in its land transportation depots. Gebrüder Weiss is one of Europe’s largest privately-held logistics service providers, with 7,300 employees, 150 worldwide locations, […]
Gebrüder Weiss takes over Ipsen Logistics’ Air & Sea business
Gebrüder Weiss has taken over large parts of the operational business of Ipsen Logistics. The globally active logistics company has now increased its presence in Germany and, at the same time, expanded its global network to include national companies in Belgium, Poland, and Malaysia. The acquisition is subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities […]
Gebrüder Weiss opens new home delivery freight handling facility near Vienna
Nearly every country in Europe reported growth in the B2C e-commerce segment as the first half of the year drew to a close. The number of consignments shipped to end consumers, comprising furniture as well as TV sets and washing machines by Gebrüder Weiss in the first half of 2020 rose from around 410,000 to […]
Even more solar power at Gebrüder Weiss
International logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has inaugurated a new solar power plant at its Pöchlarn location to produce a total of some 1,725 megawatt hours (MWh) per year on a total surface of 16,000 sq m. The major part of the photovoltaic modules on the roof area of the branch are rented out to investors […]