Panalpina
| Panalpina Welttransport (Holding) AG
 
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| legal form | Corporation | 
| ISIN | CH0002168083 | 
| founding | 1935 | 
| Seat | Basel , Switzerland | 
| management | Stefan Karlen  ( Managing Director ) Peter Ulber ( Chairman of the Board of Directors )  | 
| Number of employees | approx. 14,500 (2016) | 
| sales | 5.9 billion CHF (2016) | 
| Branch | Transport logistics | 
| Website | www.panalpina.com | 
Panalpina is a Swiss transport and logistics service provider . The group of companies has 500 branches in 80 countries and works closely with partner companies in another 80 countries.
The company goes back to a Rhine shipping company from 1935, which was founded by Hans im Obersteg in 1895.
Panalpina has been listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange under the symbol PWTN since September 2005 ; the largest single shareholder is the Ernst Göhner Foundation , based in Zug, which has held 45.94% of the share capital since at least 2012 (as of October 26, 2018).
In January 2019, the Danish DSV A / S announced that it was interested in a takeover of Panalpina for an amount of around 4 billion Swiss francs (3.6 billion euros). After the Ernst Göhner Foundation initially resisted, the takeover was announced on April 1, 2019 at a price of 4.6 billion Swiss francs.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Integrated Management Report 2016. Accessed October 20, 2017 .
 - ↑ Key figures of the Panalpina Group for 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Panalpina website, accessed September 12, 2013.
 - ↑ Major shareholders , online annual report
 - ↑ It's tough air at Panalpina , NZZ , October 26, 2018
 - ↑ boerse.ard.de: Planned takeover of billions in the logistics sector, accessed on January 16, 2019
 - ^ Panalpina and DSV agree to join forces. DSV A / S, April 1, 2019, accessed on April 1, 2019 (English).
 - ↑ Sylviane Chassot: DSV takes over Panalpina. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 1, 2019, accessed on April 1, 2019 .