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Achim Glass, Corporate Vice President KN Hotel Logistics, Kuehne + Nagel Management AG, CH- 8834 Schindellegi

KN Hotel Logistics - world class reputation in hospitality marketplace

Kuehne + Nagel delivers integrated solutions across the supply chain that turn companies' logistics challenges into real competitive advantages. A global leader in international forwarding, Kuehne + Nagel also ranks among the top three worldwide contract logistics players. The company, founded in 1890, has 52,000 employees at 850 locations in more than 100 countries.

Achim started his profession as apprentice in transportation in 1989 and throughout his career has been working for multinational freight forwarding companies. For the past eleven years he is with Kuehne + Nagel where he started in Hamburg being responsible for seafreight route development from Germany to South America and developed several new trade lanes for consolidation cargo. Achim then transferred to Santiago de Chile as National Sales Manager where he redesigned the sales force and turned around declining market share into leading position. As marketing expert and visionary he was called to Switzerland based head office in 2002 in order to develop, position and direct a niche product providing the most customer focused and acclaimed logistics service in the hospitality industry.

As Corporate Vice President of KN Hotel Logistics, Achim’s division specialises in supplying luxury hotel toiletries, guest amenities and spa products to the five star hospitality market and cruise lines worldwide and on demand and provide FF&E installation services and OS&E pre-opening logistics to the finest hotel brand names on all five continents.

Achim holds a degree in economics from Germany’s oldest private business school for transportation and foreign trade (DAV) as well as a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management studies from Oxford Brookes University in England. In 2005 he successfully acquired an Executive MBA in Logistics from University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Besides his German mother tongue he speaks English and Spanish fluently.

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