Manuel Pfenning is moving to the holding company of the pfenning group – Georg Lammers is joining the operational management
Heddesheim, 18 February 2025
The pfenning group, full-service provider for supply chain solutions from the Rhine-Neckar region, is reorganising and changing its management due to the strategic growth of recent years and an increased focus on customer needs. Manuel Pfenning will move to the holding company of the pfenning group. Rana Matthias Nag and Martin Königstein will be joined on the management board of pfenning logistics GmbH by the experienced logistics manager Georg Lammers.
Mr Karl-Martin Pfenning, managing partner of the pfenning group, will gradually hand over his active tasks in the holding company to his son-in-law Manuel Pfenning during the current year. The aim is to ensure the clear positioning as a family company in the next generation at holding level in the long term. Manuel Pfenning, previously Managing Director of pfenning logistics GmbH, will therefore be moving to the holding company of the pfenning group on 1 February 2025 in order to drive forward strategic issues relating to logistics and the family office. In his role as Managing Director for Operations, IT and Quality Management, the 41-year-old has made a significant contribution to the development and growth of the pfenning group in recent years.
This change also entails a reorganisation of the responsibilities of the operational management. The pfenning group was able to recruit Mr Georg Lammers as of 1 February 2025, who will now strengthen the management team around Rana Matthias Nag and Martin Königstein. Born in Münsterland, Mr Lammers, who has held management positions at Fiege, Rhenus and Infraserv in Germany and abroad, has more than 30 years of experience in the logistics industry with a focus on operational and sales responsibilities. He also has a high level of expertise in contract logistics and a broad knowledge of the industry. Most recently, he was Managing Director of the Contract Logistics division of Logwin Solutions Logistik GmbH in Germany. In future, he will head the sales, contract logistics and logistics management divisions, which have been merged as part of the reorganisation.
Rana Matthias Nag will continue to head the Finance & Controlling, Real Estate & Purchasing and Human Resources divisions as Spokesman of the Management Board. Martin Königstein, who has helped drive the organic and inorganic expansion in recent years, will continue to ensure the integration of the subsidiaries. He will also be responsible for the IT and Quality Management departments and, with his long-standing focus on transport logistics, will continue to drive forward the transport & distribution division.
This reorganisation is aimed at bundling the strengths of the group of companies, achieving further synergies through integration and growth and pursuing the strategic goals of the pfenning Group in an even more customer-oriented manner.
‘We are convinced that these changes and the bundling of our group-wide activities will enable us to offer our customers the best possible solutions from a single source. Mr Lammers also brings with him extraordinary expertise in the field of contract logistics and will help us to serve enquiries in an even more customer-oriented manner and further strengthen our position as a leading logistics services provider,’ says Rana Matthias Nag, Spokesman of the Management Board.
About the pfenning group:
The pfenning group is a full-service provider of supply chain solutions for German SMEs from the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. Managed by the third and fourth generation of the Pfenning family, the company can look back on 125 years of logistics experience and employs 7,000 people at 110 locations in Germany, Poland, Hungary and Sweden. With a fleet of 1,000 lorries and a total storage area of 1 million m², the company is the strong backbone for its customers’ logistics and is ranked 55th out of 60,000 logistics services providers in Germany in the “Top 100 logistics” study. Since May 2023, the company has been ranked 18th among 10,000 German family companies that generate a total turnover of up to 1 billion euros, according to ‘Die Deutsche Wirtschaft’.
The Heddesheim-based group of companies has continuously expanded its product portfolio. State-of-the-art warehousing and transport solutions are accompanied by a wide range of value added services, from plant protection to metal construction and property development. The pfenning group is one of Germany’s leading service providers in the nationwide retail supply sector. But other industries also rely on the expertise of the Heddesheim-based company: several special warehouses have been built and put into operation for the chemical, automotive, FMCG, food and pharmaceutical industries. The company has acquired further expertise through strategic acquisitions in the areas of fashion logistics and e-commerce for consumer and medical technology goods. The company supplies solutions that ensure stable merchandise management cycles, guarantee an excellent price-performance ratio and pave the way for market success.
Four decades of experience form the foundation on which pioneering property projects are realised. With the multicube rhein-neckar, pfenning logistics developed an innovative, multi-award-winning multi-user concept in 2012 that offers space for individual forms of use and sustainable requirements. This success story has been continued with the multicube rheinhessen since 2018. Both logistics centres are among the top 10 industrial buildings in Europe to have been awarded DGNB Platinum. Based on this model, pfenning logistics has been building up to 300,000 m² of qualified warehouse capacity in Germany and Europe since 2022.
For short-term requirements, pfenning logistics offers the Europe-wide logistics service concept ‘WAREhouses+’, which is available at several transport hubs, including Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, Rhine-Main and Wroclaw in Poland.
The pfenning group’s corporate philosophy is based on responsibility, commitment and trust. These values guide the team in its daily business. The focus is on transparency, openness and honesty – so that individual and pragmatic solutions can be developed efficiently and flexibly.
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