For the 20th time, the consulting and auditing firm EY (Ernst & Young) has honoured successful entrepreneurs with their “Entrepreneur des Jahres“ (Entrepreneur of the Year) award.
Dachser CEO Bernhard Simon was among the winners of this year's prize, which is given for entrepreneurship, innovation and personal dedication; he accepted the award for family-owned companies in Berlin on 18 November.
This is the fifth time that the award has been given in the family-owned companies category. It honours entrepreneurs who actively contribute to sustainability, values orientation, and the assumption of social responsibility. The jury based its decision to give the award to Mr. Simon on the fact that he has prepared the successful family-owned company for the future by instituting exemplary leadership and succession rules. In this way, according to the jury, he has strengthened the innovative and earning capacity of the company, one which has set many industry standards over the course of its history. Among other innovations, its use of bar codes laid the foundation for the digitalisation of logistics.
Other winners of the 2016 award include the Siegwerk Druckfarben AG & Co. KG (in the industrial category), the Stern-Wywiol group (in the consumer goods/retail category), the Motel One Group (in the services/IT category) and Celonis (in the start-up category), as well as Dr. Brigitte Mohn of the Bertelsmann foundation (who received a special award for social entrepreneurship).
Dachser, a family-owned company headquartered in Kempten, Germany, is one of the leading logistics providers. The Luxembourg branch is located in Grevenmacher and opened in 2011 and currently has 36 employees.
Dachser provides comprehensive transport logistics, warehousing, and customized services in two business fields: Dachser Air & Sea Logistics and Dachser Road Logistics. The latter is divided into two business lines, Dachser European Logistics and Dachser Food Logistics. Comprehensive contract logistics services and industry-specific solutions round out the company’s offerings. A seamless shipping network—both in Europe and overseas—and fully integrated IT systems provide for intelligent logistics solutions worldwide.
It employs a staff around 26,500 at 428 locations worldwide and is represented by subsidiaries in 43 countries. In 2015, the company generated revenue of €5.64 billion and handled a total of 78.1 million shipments weighing 37.3 million metric tons.
