Alexander Eberharter took over the administration of the West discipline of the international transport and logistics firm Gebrüder Weiss on August 1, succeeding Hannes Mayr, who’s retiring after 41 years with the firm. Mayr, who became born in Tyrol, can scrutinize assist on a formidable occupation with the logistics firm.
After becoming a member of the firm in 1983, he held assorted administration positions in Tyrol, sooner than being appointed Regional Manager West and then Director in 2028. At Gebrüder Weiss, the West discipline contains the Austrian states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol, as successfully as Switzerland. Salzburg and Carinthia were added to this discipline in the origin of 2024.
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“Hannes Mayr and his personnel contain made a important contribution to the success of Gebrüder Weiss in our dwelling discipline. Thanks to his dedication and professionalism, we continue to be the quantity 1 logistics associate for the bulk of industrial and industrial corporations,” says Wolfram Senger-Weiss, CEO of Gebrüder Weiss, in recognition of Hannes Mayr’s work. It became no longer absolute top the international consignors in the West discipline that benefited from his forwarding and logistics abilities. As chairman of the examination board for forwarding agents, he handed on his recordsdata to generations of apprentices for a long time. For a range of years, Mayr additionally championed the pursuits of the industry in the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce as Chairman of the Freight Forwarding and Logistics Portion.
His successor, Alexander Eberharter, has been with Gebrüder Weiss for 22 years. After keeping assorted administration positions on the Gebrüder Weiss articulate in Hall in Tyrol, he took over as department supervisor in Nuremberg in 2017 and became subsequently gain in price of the logistics firm’s strategic replace trend in Germany. He is now in price for 1,100 employees at 25 logistics locations, six of which is able to be expanded in the arriving years: Pratteln near Basel, Wolfurt in Vorarlberg, Salzburg, Hall and Langkampfen in Tyrol, and Maria Saal in Carinthia.
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“The local economies in the western discipline are very a range of, but they abolish contain one thing in overall: industrial and industrial corporations want a logistics provider within attain that provides them get entry to to a world transportation community with excessive-quality requirements. We meet this need by tailoring the companies and products of each department particularly to the wants of regional consignors and integrating them into our global community,” Eberharter explains.
