Acting Sustainably 04 Joachim Fink Focuses on New Tasks – in His Active Retirement 08 Joachim Henneberger Says Goodbye 09
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Logo auch realistischer Acting sustainably 04 Joachim Fink focuses on new tasks – in his active retirement 08 Joachim Henneberger says goodbye 09 PAGE ROAD SERVICES 04 Long-term contract signed with the Kunert Group 10 LOGISTICS SERVICES Ohrdruf – 20 years of multi-user logistics centre 11 Construction start for new logistics centres 12 Übernahme, Seite 12 Fashion that catches on 13 PAGE 11 AIR + SEA SERVICES High-tech by rail to China 14 Protective masks fly business class 15 A new start in Nuremberg 15 GENERAL NEWS Bilddynamik optimieren Hauttöne anpassen The new apprentices have arrived! 16 Youth fire brigade delighted with masks 17 PAGE More space for our IT 17 Focus Award – “Highest Reputation” 18 15 Our logistics heroine 18 Anniversaries – 40 and 25 years with Geis! 19 New task for Peter Gayer 19 Bilddynamik optimieren Hauttöne anpassen IMPRINT PAGE Published by Hans Geis GmbH + Co KG Internationale Spedition Rudolf-Diesel-Ring 24, 97616 Bad Neustadt/Saale 18 Phone: +49 (0) 9771 – 603 0 Fax: +49 (0) 9771 – 603 109 www.geis-group.com Responsible for the contents Management of the Geis Group Editorial STROOMER PR | Concept GmbH Christian Stephan, Karin Nowack, Christina Stroomer Rellinger Straße 64a, 20257 Hamburg Phone: +49 (0) 40 – 853133 0 Fax: +49 (0) 40 – 853133 22 E-mail: [email protected] Übernahme Hans-Georg Geis, Hans-Wolfgang Geis, Jochen Geis and Wolfgang Geis (from the left). Dear Readers, Protecting the environment, acting in a climate- and intensify our efforts for more sustainability friendly manner and conserving resources – day by day. We have summarised our goals and sustainable action has been a fundamental goal of measures in a sustainability report. Find out more our company for many years. It has long been part about this on the following pages. of our daily routine to optimise supply chains and transports and to reduce the number of empty runs. DECADES OF FULL COMMITMENT We use low-emission vehicles, pay attention to ecological aspects in all construction projects and Joachim Fink and Joachim Henneberger have been avoid waste. and are working sustainably for our company. Both have helped shape our company for decades. On CREATING MORE SUSTAINABILITY the occasion of their imminent retirement, in this Transfer issue we would like to thank and pay Sustainable action encompasses much more than tribute to these two great personalities. ecological issues, however. We are also committed to society and our employees. Our goal therefore is We also want to thank all of you, our customers, to keep the company fit in a changing environment – employees and business partners. Thank you for for example by investing in the qualification and going through this extraordinary year with us further training of our more than 6,000 employees. as partners. Now it‘s important for us to look to After all, people are and remain the most important the future with confidence. In this spirit we wish resource in logistics. you a Merry Christmas and a healthy and Happy New Year! As an internationally active logistics service provider as well as a family business, we have a Yours, special responsibility. We take it very seriously The Geis family ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY EDITORIAL 03 ACTING SUSTAINABLY Acting responsibly towards people and the environment is one of the key principles of our group of companies. Our first sustainability report reating efficient transport shows how we are putting solutions, making optimum this principle into Cuse of resources and assuming social responsibility – practice. our sustainability report provides Bavarian Environmental Pact, the information on how we tackle Hesse Environmental Alliance these and many other issues. In it and the Lower Franconia Envi- we summarise our activities ronmental Support Association. under the three sub-areas of environment and energy, people Our commitment is primarily and society, and innovations aimed at making our processes and sustainable foundations for environmentally compatible and success. we are continuously working to improve our energy-related ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY performance and our environ- mental performance. Environmental and climate protection are fundamental We have already made many corporate goals for us. We were improvements, including in the one of the first logistics service following areas: providers in Germany to intro- • Last year, we succeeded in duce a DIN EN ISO 14001-certi- reducing CO2 emissions in fied integrated environmental relation to our company‘s sales management system back in by 5.24 percent compared to 2005. We are involved in the 2018. 04 TOP STORY Lkw, bitte sauber in den Farben Blau/Gelb branden. realistisch erscheinen lassen. Logo auch realistischer DIESEL CONSUMPTION PER 100 KM 100 % 98.5 % 95.9 % 2017 2018 2019 © iStock/Milos-Muller • In 2019 we were able to reduce We are also increasingly focusing the volume of waste from on ecological features in our cardboard and paper by properties. For example, we are FOCUS ON ENVIRONMEN- 7.1 percent and that of wood by equipping new buildings with TAL ASPECTS: 4.7 percent – in each case in energy-efficient LED lighting and relation to turnover. are also successively converting • Pollutant emissions Over the past two years, the our existing properties – for • • Consumption of packaging average consumption of example our logistics centre in material and cardboard boxes our truck fleet has fallen by Regensburg. Here, the newly • Discharge into watercourses, 4.1 percent. With fuel-efficient installed LED lighting system wastewater pollution, soil and low-emission vehicles, saves 76,000 kilowatt hours of contamination innovative technology and electricity per year, is much more • Use of hazardous substances targeted training of our drivers, durable and creates better work- • Raw material consumption we have been able to save a total ing conditions thanks to a much • Waste management of 167,591 litres of diesel. This higher light quality. corresponds to 444 tonnes >>> of CO2. • While turnover rose by 8.6 percent from 2018 to 2019, our total energy consumption increased by only 1.2 percent. TOP STORY 05 professions. Our apprenticeship quota in Germany is 7.8 percent, The sustainability report is available and almost all apprentices are for download at taken on. This also applies to the www.geis-group.com/ en/downloads dual-degree students for whom we act as training partners. It's well worth a look! Even after vocational training or studies have been completed, we are committed to the further development of our employees‘ Fertig. skills. We apply a holistic concept for employee advancement and personnel development – with regular and individually compiled seminars and training courses. In PEOPLE AND SOCIETY 2019, each employee received an average of 11.5 hours of further In addition to our commitment to training. the environment, we are also assuming social responsibility. In doing so, our concern is to ensure our company‘s relations with our social environment and society are both fair and cooperative. Bright prospects in The training, safety and health of the future-oriented our employees are all of great logistics sector: We take on almost importance to us. More than all our apprentices. 6,000 people are employed by our group of companies. With their know-how and commitment, they form the basis for our diverse and high-quality services. Passing on knowledge to employ- ees – this is our goal when train- ing young people. Sound voca- tional training is high priority for us, as the figures show: We currently have 308 apprentices being trained in nine different Hauttöne anpassen 06 TOP STORY One focus of the training courses INNOVATIONS AND is occupational safety, because FOUNDATIONS FOR SUCCESS the safety and health of our employees is particularly impor- Last but not least, sustainability is tant to us. Other measures, such also about strengthening our as ergonomically designed company in the long term and workplaces and on-site events making it fit for the future. To such as health days, also help achieve this, we have, for exam- ensure the latter. ple, systematised the develop- ment and testing of new solutions “IN THE LONG Our commitment to society is and digital processes. Innovations TERM WE CAN ONLY primarily local and regional. Our such as Google Glass, glove BE SUCCESSFUL sites support aid projects with scanners and exoskeletons can THROUGH free transportation and personal increase productivity and process commitment. They sponsor reliability. At the same time, they SUSTAINABLE associations and events and back are able to relieve employees in ACTION.” fundraising campaigns for local their daily work through ergo- Hans-Georg Geis and Wolfgang Geis, projects. nomic and supporting functions. Managing Partners In addition, all the elements of our Integrated Management System (IMS) are geared towards sus- tainability and continuous im- provement. The aim of the IMS is that our processes always take the best possible position in the area of conflict between economy, ecology and social demands. Evidence of our sustainable orientation includes among other things our certifications for quality, environmental and Hauttöne anpassen occupational-safety manage- ment. But information security management, food safety, AEO/ customs and air freight security are also part of it. We are certified according to a total of eight standards. Hauttöne anpassen Google Glass and glove scanners – such innovations lighten the workload of employees and make us fit for the future. TOP STORY 07 JOACHIM FINK FOCUSES ON NEW TASKS – IN HIS ACTIVE RETIREMENT An untiring commitment to our company: For more than 35 years Joachim Fink has played a key role in our Road Services division.