04/13/2010

Geodis is getting stronger and aims to be the Global Provider reference for logistics market in Italy

More than 2 million sqm of open areas, more than 623.000 sqm of covered area, 22 logistics warehouses, ‘tailor-made’ services and the forecast to close 2010 with a sales revenue of 200 million Euro, more than doubling 2008 business (75 million Euro). A rise up that made Geodis Logistics redoubled open areas in Italy during the last three years - from 1 million sqm in 2008 to 2 million sqm in 2010 – and almost to triple covered areas, from 237.500 sqm in 2008, arriving nowadays at 623.500 sqm. Getting in the Top 3 logistic players in Italy.

With these facts and figures Geodis Logistics presents itself, where Geodis invests, gets stronger and dares the market. Geodis’s purpose is becoming the Global Provider reference in the national area with an extremely specialized and complete offer – groupage, express and full truck load, freight forwarding, 4PL services – and a waving factory with the idea of a “collaborative logistics”.
“This new merger is part of an accurate strategy” – said Francesco Cazzaniga, CEO of Geodis Logistics in Italy - “which aims to reinforce our presence in the logistic market, trying to become leader as well as steadying the position of the whole company in Italy”. Geodis looks straight to the future with a strategy examined in details and based on two features: strengthening of its own structures on the national areas - through merger of consolidated and well known companies – and the ongoing improvement of high value added services, like the innovative co-packing (kitting, labbeling, ecc.) – and the Reverse Logistics regarding the management of the end-of-life electronic product, the last flagship of logistic service offered by Geodis.

From the strategy and the research on innovation, Geodis goes straight to the facts. Despite the negative economic scenario, Geodis improves its logistic presence in Italy with the three acquisitions closed between 2009 and 2010, which expanded the basis of Geodis on the national area.

In fact, after the merger of GTL, company that manages the delivery of Colgate-Palmolive products in Italy, and Sincrolog, company specialized on end-to-end services with activity managed with innovative Information Technology tools, Geodis has finished today – 12th April – the acquisition closing of Bertola Servizi Logistici S.P.A, acquiring an important position in Veneto too.

About Geodis Logistics

Through a network covering 120 countries, 26.000 employees and 5,2 Billion Euro revenue, Geodis is positioned, in Europe, among the first four Global Logistics Services Provider. Geodis, society of the Group SNCF, is particularly recognized for its competences multiple business and for its ability to manage the trials of the supply chain of its customers, what air and sea freight, logistics, distribution – groupage and express and full truck load.

In Italy, Geodis Logistics S.p.A. is the Logistic Division of the Group Geodis.