“We reap the rewards of our long-term investment policy and growth strategies, which we are consistently implementing throughout the company,” Dachser CEO Bernhard Simon explained the company’s strategy.
European exports remains a growth engine, he added, and announced greater investments for the current year: “Having invested EUR 81 million last year, we will be investing around EUR 125 million in 2016. Some of this money will go toward information technology and technical equipment. But as in previous years, the lion’s share will be put into our European Road Logistics network where we will be building or expanding logistics facilities in Austria, France, Germany, and Poland.”
Dachser reports strong, organic growth for fiscal year 2015. Consolidated revenue increased by 6.5 percent to EUR 5.64 billion.
Shipments rose by 4.0 percent to 78.1 million, while tonnage increased by 5.2 percent to 37.3 million metric tons. The primary contributors for the positive performance were the overland freight services for food and industrial goods in Europe.
Within the Road Logistics business field, which makes up 72 percent of Dachser’s revenue, the enterprise generated revenue of EUR 3.433 billion (+ 5.5 percent) in 2015 from transporting and storing industrial goods.
Shipments and tonnage rose 3.8 percent and 4.2 percent, respectively.
Regarding food logistics, Dachser Food Logistics advanced to become the growth leader within the group with revenue growing 8.1 percent to EUR 741 million. Dachser Air & Sea Logistics generated revenue growth of 8.0 percent and contributed a total of EUR 1.599 billion to consolidated revenue in 2015.
The family-owned logistics provider headquartered in Kempten, Germany employs a staff around 26,500 at 428 locations worldwide and is represented by subsidiaries in 43 countries.
