Alexander Eberharter took over the management of the West space of the international transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss on August 1, succeeding Hannes Mayr, who is retiring after 41 years with the corporate. Mayr, who became as soon as born in Tyrol, can watch help on an spectacular occupation with the logistics company.
After joining the corporate in 1983, he held a lot of management positions in Tyrol, sooner than being appointed Regional Supervisor West and then Director in 2028. At Gebrüder Weiss, the West space comprises the Austrian states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol, as effectively as Switzerland. Salzburg and Carinthia had been added to this space within the origin of 2024.
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“Hannes Mayr and his crew grasp made a necessary contribution to the success of Gebrüder Weiss in our home space. Due to his commitment and professionalism, we proceed to be the number 1 logistics accomplice for nearly all of industrial and industrial companies,” says Wolfram Senger-Weiss, CEO of Gebrüder Weiss, in recognition of Hannes Mayr’s work. It became as soon as no longer finest the international consignors within the West space that benefited from his forwarding and logistics expertise. As chairman of the examination board for forwarding agents, he handed on his recordsdata to generations of apprentices for a few years. For a lot of years, Mayr moreover championed the pursuits of the change within the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce as Chairman of the Freight Forwarding and Logistics Fragment.
His successor, Alexander Eberharter, has been with Gebrüder Weiss for 22 years. After holding a lot of management positions at the Gebrüder Weiss residing in Hall in Tyrol, he took over as department manager in Nuremberg in 2017 and became as soon as due to the this truth keep accountable for the logistics company’s strategic enterprise pattern in Germany. He’s now to blame for 1,100 workers at 25 logistics locations, six of which is ready to be expanded within the upcoming years: Pratteln attain Basel, Wolfurt in Vorarlberg, Salzburg, Hall and Langkampfen in Tyrol, and Maria Saal in Carinthia.
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“The native economies within the western space are very different, nonetheless they carry out grasp one thing in frequent: industrial and industrial companies want a logistics provider nearby that affords them salvage entry to to a world transportation network with excessive-quality standards. We meet this need by tailoring the products and companies of every department namely to the wants of regional consignors and integrating them into our global network,” Eberharter explains.
