GO! Express & Logistics

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GO! Express & Logistics (Germany) GmbH

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legal form Limited Liability Company (GmbH)
founding November 10, 1984
Seat Bonn , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Ulrich Nolte
Number of employees 1,400 (3,000 couriers)
sales 330 million euros
Branch Transport and logistics
Website general-overnight.com

GO! Express & Logistics (short GO !, previously GO! General Overnight) is a global transport and logistics company with headquarters in Bonn . It goes back to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kurierdienste (ADK), which developed from an umbrella association of independent courier services to a group of companies with a common brand.

The GO! Express & Logistics comprises over 100 locations in Germany and Europe . Around 1,400 employees and 3,000 couriers transport more than seven million documents, goods and other shipments every year . With that, GO! Express & Logistics the largest independent provider of express and courier services . One focus is traditionally on overnight delivery.

history

Sorting center in Niederaula

On November 10, 1984, eight medium-sized transport and logistics companies founded the Association of German Courier Services (ADK). It was the first umbrella organization of a network of independent courier services in Germany. This enabled law firms, insurance companies, advertising agencies, auditors and other customers for the first time to reliably deliver consignments on specific dates, even overnight.

The consignments were initially handled primarily by rail . From the end of the 1980s, the German Courier Services Association increasingly relied on its own delivery vehicles in order to make itself independent of third parties. As a result, the loose cooperation developed into a group of companies, which in 1994 became the umbrella brand GO! General Overnight introduced. The joint external appearance laid the foundation for further growth.

The newly established system headquarters took over the coordination of the business. However, the association retained its decentralized organizational structure and asserted itself so successfully in competition with new market participants such as Swiss Post . The company also expanded to Austria and other countries in order to offer customers international delivery. Here, too, the company relied on cooperation with regionally rooted service providers.

In 2001 the administration was relocated from Hamburg and Stuttgart to Bonn , where the office space was continually being enlarged. In 2008, a sorting center was put into operation in Niederaula , which is still the heart of the transport and logistics company today. An average of 25,000 to 30,000 shipments arrive there every night. Due to an expansion, the capacities have doubled from the opening to the present day.

The company has been trading as GO! Express & Logistics, to highlight the full range of its services . The slogan introduced in 2019 ("Everything extraordinary") supports the new positioning as a solution provider.

Corporate structure

The GO! Express & Logistics (Deutschland) GmbH , based in Bonn, acts as the headquarters of the entire group of companies. She is responsible for the coordination of the national and international network as well as the operation of the route network. It also takes on functions such as the operation of the IT infrastructure or quality management .

The share capital is 455,000 euros and is fully paid up. It is divided into 13 equal shares owned by regional courier companies. These grant each other territorial and competition protection. The shareholders' meeting of GO! Express & Logistics.

The statutes provide for one or more managing directors for the GO! Express & Logistics (Deutschland) GmbH . Ulrich Nolte is currently performing this function alone. It is supported by an advisory board consisting of three people. They are determined by the shareholders and bring external expertise to the company.

Services

Delivery vehicle from GO!

GO! Express & Logistics provides courier and express services , both nationally and internationally. These are sold under the GO! Courier , GO! Express , GO! Solutions and GO! Value Added Services distributed. The company positions itself as a quality provider with the lowest loss and damage rates and an above-average delivery rate. GO! Express & Logistics works for a wide variety of industries and specializes, for example, in customers from the automotive sector , medical technology and the pharmaceutical industry .

The European network of GO! Express & Logistics comprises around 100 locations. In Germany, this includes the central hub in Niederaula and the regional hubs in Bonn , Gera , Frankfurt am Main , Hanover and Heilbronn . Internationally, the company is active in Belgium , Denmark , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Austria , Poland , Switzerland and the Czech Republic .

Web links

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Individual evidence

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