“By taking over the freight forwarding activities of the Cretschmar Group in Düsseldorf, we’re expanding our market presence in the region and can particularly continue to develop our range of services for our customers. This also includes the chemical expertise that is available at both companies, which we’ll pool,” says Thilo Streck, Managing Director of Rhenus Road in Germany.
The long-standing Cretschmar family business generated turnover of EUR 103 million in 2018. Cretschmar is part of the System Alliance, Night Star Express and Kombiverkehr cooperation schemes. “It’s very important for us to safeguard reliable supplies for the major mid-sized cooperation schemes in the region in the long term,” Thilo Streck adds.
The Cretschmar Group will maintain its freight forwarding activities in Neuss, Leipzig and Stuttgart with its current managers and will continue to operate in the third-party logistics, night express, trade fair logistics, air and sea freight areas – at its business site in Düsseldorf too.
“Our decision to sell is the result of the ongoing process of consolidation in the freight forwarding market. We’re delighted to have found a purchaser in the Rhenus Group, which can offer our transferred employees good future prospects,” says Kay A. Espey, the Managing Partner of L.W. Cretschmar. “We want to focus even more strongly on expanding our other corporate activities, in particular third-party logistics, after the sale of our freight forwarding activities in Düsseldorf.
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