The FIEGE Group is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Over the past one and a half centuries, the family business from Greven in Westphalia has grown from a small haulage company to a provider of international logistics with a headcount of 23,500. Attending the ceremonial act: the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hendrik Wüst and the Lord Mayor of Münster, Markus Lewe.

The FIEGE Group expands its Executive Board. Kenza Ait Si Abbou, an AI and data expert, will be overseeing the Digital Services, IT and Data Driven Company units at the Greven-based logistics company.

The logistics company, FIEGE and the tire maker, Continental have been working together in tire logistics for over 20 years. At the location in Bellheim, FIEGE will now also oversee the delivery to customers of Continental based in Germany’s south.

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) is a crucial factor in upholding competitiveness. FIEGE recently trialled a new tool together with a long-time client. The aim of the so-called bootcamp: to expand knowledge, to strengthen the team spirit, and to optimise outbound operations.

FIEGE is expanding its location in Bülach, Switzerland. In the immediate vicinity of Zurich Airport, a new logistics centre offering 17,000 square metres of additional storage space is being built. The building is expected to be completed in the summer of 2024.

Tannico has what must be the world’s largest collection of fine Italian wines. The international e-tailer holds licences for 15,000 wine labels from 2,500 wineries. The logistics was outsourced to FIEGE in 2016. Only five years later, FIEGE opened a fully automated warehouse for Tannico in Castel San Giovanni near Milan.

Just in time for the start of a new school season, roughly nine million schoolbooks are delivered every year in Austria. FIEGE will be handling this in the future for Österreichische Bundesverlag (öbv), a publishing house that specialises in educational textbooks.

The FIEGE Group has received the Logivisor Award. The Carrier Claims Management of the Greven-based contract logistics expert won in the Retail category.

The online platform Palettenheld.com traces the journey of unit load devices in real time. FIEGE thus creates a more efficient pallet management with short routes that saves time, money, and effort.

The contract logistics expert is automating its storing and order picking of small parts. The new autostore features over 75,000 bins as well as intelligent robots and packaging technology.

The Bünting Group of Companies from East Frisia optimises its Germany-wide delivery service for its online supermarket, myTime.de. ANGEL bringt’s, a FIEGE subsidiary, will make sustainable deliveries for the Bünting trading company using reusable distribution boxes.

The logistics company FIEGE has added yet another client from the expanding Home Décor and furniture segment to its portfolio with the Dutch interior design brand, POLSPOTTEN. FIEGE will provide a new home for this business at its multi-user centre in Westzaan, which is to the north of Amsterdam and where the contract logistics expert is already running operations for the Zuiver Group.

From today onwards, the logistics company FIEGE will be using electric trucks. The battery-powered vehicles will be in operation for the Healthcare and Fast Moving Consumer Goods business units at four locations. They are expected to help FIEGE move one crucial step closer to its declared goal of climate neutrality.

Construction of the new office complex by the logistics company FIEGE at Münster’s Hafen district is rapidly advancing. Structural engineering work is already in full swing – and the name for the x-shaped edifice has also been chosen.

The logistics company FIEGE has acquired Vienna-based AV Logistic Center GmbH. Next to a large part of client operations, all employees as well as fixed assets relocated to the neighbouring FIEGE logistics centre situated at ‘in der Schußlinie’.

The logistics company FIEGE has added a further warehouse to the multi-user centre located to the south-east of Hamburg. The region of strategic importance now offers around 90,000 square metres of logistics space to clients from a range of different industries.

In Switzerland, FIEGE is renewing its location in Bülach and investing into the construction of a 17,000-square-metres-large logistics centre near Zurich Airport.

In April 2020, FIEGE incorporated a new business: FOR Freight. Fast forward two and a half years, and it has become a success story – despite Covid. Its performance speaks for itself.

The big 150-year celebration is about to take place in 2023, but this year will already see corks flying: Our colleagues at Central Eastern Europe are celebrating 25 years of FIEGE in Poland. On the occasion of the anniversary celebration that took place this week in Warsaw, we look back at a story that started in a village called Odrzywołek.

The Greven-based logistics company strengthens its presence in the Netherlands. At the new logistics centre in Zaandam, the Dutch subsidiary FIEGE B.V. consolidates a large part of its clients’ business in the consumer products sector.

The Greven-based logistics company is responding to the growth performance of its longs-time client, CBR Fashion Group. At the logistics centre in Burgwedel, autonomous robots by Locus Robotics will be doing the work in the future.

The Greven-based family business is building a particularly sustainable multi-user centre for healthcare north of Magdeburg. Completion is scheduled for the end of 2022. The key tenant and biggest client has already been found for the location.

The family-owned company from Greven in Westphalia is implementing a major automation project together with the sports shop retailer at the Apfelstädt site – on an area of almost 10,000 square metres.

The Greven-based family business is adding 32,000 square metres of logistics space to its Lower Rhine facility. The start is scheduled for January 2023. The key tenant has already been named.

The family business from Greven in Westphalia is building new offices in the heart of Münster. The move-in is scheduled for 2024. The foundation stone was placed last Thursday.

5.7 million euros – that is the amount that FIEGE has helped its clients save with optimisation projects that were rolled out in 2021. Lean Management is the magic word on the way to greater improvement and less waste.

On an area of around 90.000 square metres located to the north of Magdeburg is where a new multi-user location is being built for the healthcare business unit.

The Fiege Group has increased its interest in heyconnect GmbH to over 90 per cent. This makes the family business from Greven in Westphalia the largest shareholder of the Hamburg-based specialist for online marketplaces. Its founders, Marcel Brindöpke and Florian Curdt will remain on board as managing directors for the long term.

Following 13 months of construction, FIEGE has completed a new single-user centre for zooplus SE in Hungary.

FIEGE is the new logistics partner of Beam Suntory Deutschland GmbH. Starting 1 July 2022, the logistics company based in Greven in Westphalia will take charge of warehouse logistics, value-added services, and transportation within Germany, but also to Austria as well as parts of France for Beam Suntory, a world leader in premium spirits.

After a good ten months of construction, the FIEGE family business has completed its multi-user centre at the Peine Ost industrial estate, which is based in the Hanover metropolitan region. The roughly 30,000 square metres of logistics space split across three hall bays.

The logistics provider FIEGE has brought a PV system online at its location in Zülpich which will generate power for captive consumption by FIEGE. Covering a 5,000 square-metres-large rooftop, the system will produce over 400,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year. This is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 115 households.

Movement on the B side: Excavation has started for the modern office building which FIEGE is building in Münster’s Stadthafen I. Preparations for the bored pile wall to waterproof the retaining walls have been underway since September. The FIEGE family business will have around 10,000 square metres of useful area at its disposal once the new building is completed.

WERNS, ruler of animal kingdom. Since the end of last year, the young designer brand from Münster has been selling their extravagant products from the animal kingdom via their own online shop across the whole of Europe – backed by logistics from FIEGE NOW.

shopdaheim is an online platform that was called to life by the booksellers Thalia Mayersche and Osiander in 2020 with the goal of boosting local retailers in the long term and assisting them with their digitalisation drive.

Since spring, the logistics company has been storing a broad product range for the Swiss online giant at its warehouse in Oftringen.

What does the city of the future look like? What role will inner cities play? Many people around the globe are tackling questions like these. One of them is the renowned Danish architect, Jan Gehl who has overseen urban development projects around the world. His conclusion: “A good city is like a good party – people stay longer than really necessary because they are enjoying themselves.”

And to achieve this, our urban centres need to change. New mobility concepts, progressing digitalisation and changing consumer habits put pressure specifically on the brick-and-mortar retail trade. “The problems existed long before Covid did. However, the crisis and here in particular, the lengthy lockdowns acted like an accelerant”, says Felix Koch, Strategic Project Manager City Logistics at Fiege.

The Fiege Group has taken over World Fashion Logistics (WFL) to expand its contract logistics operations in Asia.

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FIEGE has devised a whole new product family. Under the name of FIEGE NOW, the logistics company offers a range of fully standardised services.

FIEGE is the new logistics partner of Lobenbergs Gute Weine GmbH & Co. KG. Since mid-2021, the Greven-based family business has been managing the warehouse and distribution logistics for the international wine e-tailer headquartered in Bremen.

FIEGE is defining new product development processes to spot market niches sooner and fulfil its customers’ needs more purposefully by drawing on the power of information.

Fiege is building a new logistics hub in the province of North Holland. By August 2022, Zaandam, which is north of Amsterdam, will see around 43,000 square metres of warehouse space being built. Excavations started at the end of October 2021.

Smartlane uses algorithms to handle piece goods more efficiently and just received financing in excess of €6 million. The start-up’s business model also won over the venture capital fund, F-LOG Ventures, whose anchor investor is the Fiege Group.

BOXIT in charge of Germany-wide delivery of periodicals

Jens and Felix Fiege, who together have been spearheading FIEGE since 2014 as fifth-generation family members, have received the Family Entrepreneur of the Year award from INTES Academy. The award is presented jointly with FBN Deutschland and the German association of family entrepreneurs, Die Familienunternehmer.

FIEGE is upping capacities. As of mid-2023, the Vienna multi-user centre situated directly in the heart of the city will add around 20,000 square metres of extra space for clients operating in a variety of sectors.

Since July 2021, new rules on how to pay and to calculate value added tax on cross-border online sales have come into effect within the EU. To take the pressure off eCommerce players, FIEGE has partnered with the Berlin tech company, countX.

FIEGE is launching yet another customer service location. As from 1 October, the family business from Greven in Westphalia will be setting up a further service site in Essen to assist eCommerce players with the implementation and development of their customer care ideas.

Anyone who wants to know what the current state of e-commerce is like should take a look at FIEGE’s balance sheet on Black Friday weekend.

Motatos is a start-up that combats the waste of food with the help of FIEGE’s know-how in Großbeeren.

Greven-based logistics company takes over eCommerce fulfilment for the e-tailer specialising in wound care.

The logistics companies FIEGE, Grieshaber and Rothermel cooperate under the name of FGR Logistics & Distribution GmbH for efficient tyre distribution operations at the location in Fürth.

Fiege has reached an agreement with AIT Worldwide Logistics to sell the legal entities within the Business Unit International Freight Forwarding (IFF) as well as the Forwarding Business in Far East. Closing of the transaction is anticipated on December 29th, 2020.

FIEGE will be building a new home for the logistics provider’s digital business units in Münster’s Stadthafen I district. An architectural competition was sponsored which called for design proposals of the planned building to be situated on the B-side of the Hafen area.

At the Lufthansa Cargo Center (LCC) in Frankfurt, “Fiege Air Cargo Logistics GmbH & Co. KG” (FACL) will take over the operative handling and co-ordination of inbound and outbound standard shipments in several phases until mid 2021. The physical cargo handling processes in the LCC had already been largely outsourced to various external service providers for many years.

At the Lufthansa Cargo Center (LCC) in Frankfurt, “Fiege Air Cargo Logistics GmbH & Co. KG” (FACL) will take over the operative handling and co-ordination of inbound and outbound standard shipments in several phases until mid 2021. The physical cargo handling processes in the LCC had already been largely outsourced to various external service providers for many years.

Fiege was the readers’ and experts’ first choice for Best Logistics Brand 2020 in the category of contract logistics.

The logistician Fiege is distributing urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical staff working across Germany on behalf of the country’s Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).

The logistics service provider Fiege is implementing additional steps under its contingency plan following the ongoing spread of the coronavirus.

The logistics company Fiege is actively preparing a concept which secures the flow of critical goods throughout Europe should the coronavirus continue to spread. This includes pharmaceutical as well as medical supplies, food and crucial production materials for the industry.

The FIEGE Company Builder, XPRESS Ventures added the Dortmund-based start-up, Logistikbude to its portfolio. The seed funding for the platform for automatic management of loading equipment management amounted to 2.2 million euros.

In 2017, FIEGE invested in the robotics start-up, Magazino and has since enjoyed a close collaboration with the Munich-based enterprise. FIEGE has now sold this investment to Jungheinrich. The intralogistics company will be taking over Magazino as a whole.

FIEGE staged an Innovation Day at its branch in Marklkofen in collaboration with its client, MANN+HUMMEL. Next to an exciting look at everything from digitalisation and automation to Lean Management, participants were able to experience one of FIEGE’s new electric trucks live on location.

XPRESS Ventures, the Company Builder by the logistics provider FIEGE, is backing the start-up, HomeRide. The technology facilitates a multi-shop buying experience including same-day delivery across a steadily growing network of retail partners.

Since the summer of this year, employees at the FIEGE Mega Center Ibbenbüren have been using exoskeletons. This technology provides powerful support for lifting movements during order picking.

At the FIEGE IDC in Worms, operations are abuzz. On 80,000 square metres of logistics space, our employees turn over some 10,000 parcels packed with power tools on a daily basis. And in the context of an ongoing Proof of Concept (PoC), they have been receiving automated support from driverless floor conveyors.

At the FIEGE location in Greven-Reckenfeld, two Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) assist with the storing of small items.

Yesterday saw FIEGE once again invite clients, partners, and friends of the company to join it for its FAST & FORWARD event in Berlin. This year’s networking get-together was dedicated to sustainability.

FIEGE has invested in the German logistics start-up, sennder, as part of the company’s June extension to its Series D funding round. The logistics company will act as an investor and a strategic partner to the Berlin-based entity that, since its formation in 2015, has become Europe’s leading digital road freight forwarder.

Managing Partners Tanja Rosendahl and Tim Gudelj (second from left), Head of FIEGE Ventures Andreas Pott (second from right) and Investment Manager Michael Geers (l.). (Foto: F-LOG)

XPRESS Ventures, FIEGE's company builder, launched in 2019 as FIEGE’s very own brand. It is a further building block in the FIEGE Group's investment strategy which strives to systematically advance technology-driven ideas from within its own organisation as well as external founders.

E-tailing is a booming market with the number of online transactions on marketplaces like Zalando, Amazon, Otto growing by the minute. The Hamburg-based start-up Heyconnect helps brands and retailers connect with online platforms and supports them in using marketplaces as a sustainable sales channel. The fulfilment provider Fiege has now joined forces with the company.

The FIEGE Group has pledged its commitment to becoming carbon neutral and has now published its first sustainability report. The report is informed by the internationally recognised Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and refers to the financial year 2022. In anticipation of the mandatory EU regulations which will come into effect starting 2025, it aims to create transparency for clients, partners, and other stakeholders.

FIEGE regularly donates IT equipment that it no longer needs to educational and social organisations. Now the Greven-based family business has handed over 46 laptops to three institutions from Münster that are involved in child and young welfare.

»für nierenkranke Kinder« e.V. is a Münster-based charity supporting children with kidney disease. The organisation was thrilled to receive a donation from the family business, FIEGE. The funds were donated by employees of the Greven-based logistics company as well as the company’s own foundation, the Josef Fiege Stiftung.

Climate neutrality is not achieved overnight – but FIEGE is definitely on its way. Climate neutrality has been laid out clearly and established as a goal. But how does an enterprise change into becoming a sustainable business? It needs determination, focus, conviction – and a good plan.

The logistics company FIEGE and its long-time client, ESPRIT held their annual sale of samples for staff members. Proceeds reached a record 55,000 euros and will be donated to charity.

The family business FIEGE has recognised five employees with the FIEGE Volunteer Award. The prize is awarded by the Josef Fiege Stiftung in support of personal social commitment.

The joint airlift by SunExpress, Lufthansa Cargo, DPD, FIEGE, time:matters and Customs Broker has transported more than 3,000 parcels on eight cargo flights to Turkey since its launch. The initiative will be maintained in the coming days.

Synergien nutzen und gemeinsam unbürokratisch helfen: Das ist das Ziel der Hilfsgemeinschaft führender Transport- und Logistikpartner SunExpress, DPD, FIEGE, time:matters, CB Customs Broker GmbH und Lufthansa Cargo.

FIEGE regularly donates IT equipment that is no longer needed to educational and social institutions. In January, the Greven-based family business handed over 40 laptops plus the respective accessories to the Anne-Frank-Realschule, a secondary school in Greven, to boost digital teaching.

FIEGE is once again supporting five projects for socially disadvantaged children in the Münsterland region for Christmas. The employees of the Greven-based family business have fulfilled almost 200 children's wishes. The presents are already on their way under the Christmas tree.

The FIEGE Christmas Express rolled through the Münsterland again in 2022 and visited families who especially deserved a little pre-Christmas surprise this year. The gratitude of the recipients was great - and one or two tears were shed.

It’s never too early. That also goes when it comes to sustainability. Three Greven elementary schools that have been promoting environmental protection projects together with their pupils, have been awarded the 2022 Environmental Prize from the Josef Fiege Stiftung for their commitment.

This year will yet again see the FIEGE Xmas Express visit families living in the region, to deliver pre-Christmas gifts. Proposals are accepted starting today.

The Family business based in Greven Westphalia produces solar energy in the black Forest for Captive use, taking yet a further step towards climate neutrality.

From the North Pole to the South Pole and then back north again, all the way to Gardno in Poland: The tracker’s final count showed a solid 34,635 kilometres!

Happy news just in time for the festive season: Fiege is to remain the main sponsor of the regional league’s football club, SC Preußen Münster. The contract, originally set to expire in summer of 2022, was renewed early until 30 June 2024 regardless of the club’s league affiliation.

In the early 1990s, FIEGE devised the pioneering business concept of resource-friendly contract logistics. The company’s then managers, Heinz and Dr. Hugo Fiege, received the Eco-manager of the Year award for this in 1996.

SC Preußen Münster and its main sponsor, FIEGE teamed up for some pre-Christmas surprises. “Because you deserve it” is the motto of FIEGE’s Xmas express which will be calling on 6 families in Münster and the surrounding areas. Preußen’s captain, Julian Schauerte and the goal-getter, Gerrit Wegkamp are also on board this year.

FIEGE has called to life an innovative inclusion project in Nagarole Rocca. RED: Responsabilità e diversità – Responsibility and Diversity – is the name of the project that is dedicated to the employment and inclusion of by now eleven people with disability at the Italian facility.

The test phase was successful – the xSite pilot electromobility project by FIEGE and E.ON begins functional operations in Greven.

Since January 2020, the logistics company Fiege has been tapping into CO2-neutral power sources across Germany, thus investing sustainably into the protection of our climate. Next to greater energy efficiency and sensitising employees on the issue of climate protection, this is a further material step in the company’s approach towards stepping up sustainability at Fiege.

Soccer Cup on the big stage: The 150th anniversary edition of the company’s signature football tournament goes down as the biggest event in the history of FIEGE. A venue set against a breath-taking backdrop made up of 3,500 participants is what the Preußen Stadium in Münster was.

In 1873, Joan Joseph Fiege, then a farmer, founded a small haulage business in Greven in Westphalia. Fast forward 150 years, and FIEGE has become an international logistics company with a workforce of more than 23,000 people working in 16 countries that pursues – next to its core activity, contract logistics – also real estate, ventures, and digital services. Despite ongoing growth for one and a half centuries, the FIEGE family business has maintained its values as well as a special attachment to their home region.

We are celebrating our 150th anniversary. Many special events are planned for the anniversary year, all with a view to saying: Thank you!

FIEGE Italy is changing its role from sub-contractor to principal contractor at the fashion sites in Castel San Giovanni and Stradella. This will benefit employees in particular.

FIEGE’s Equality Power project creates even greater awareness for equal opportunity and works out measures that help to advance employees at FIEGE in more ways than one.

Corporate culture is a matter of utmost priority at FIEGE. But how exactly is it formed? And how does it evolve in an organisation with 23,000 employees? Who or what defines it? And why is how so much more relevant that what? An interview with Alexander Neudorf, Director People & Culture at FIEGE, and the Leadership & Culture associates, Charlotte Heithoff and Dr. Matthias Teine.

You learn from your mistakes – or so they say. However, the basic requisite for this is: Mistakes and their consequences must be made visible and openly addressed without reservations. In-house Fail Forward sessions allow FIEGE to create the starting point for a no-blame culture free of fear.

FIEGE had once again invited friends to join it for its FAST & FORWARD event held in Berlin on Thursday. The goal of this year’s networking event is to bring companies and start-ups together, engage in discussions, and take along fresh stimuli for one’s teams and organisations. An expectation which once again was more than fulfilled.

Das Familienunternehmen aus dem westfälischen Greven setzt am Standort Apfelstädt zusammen mit dem Sportartikel-Händler ein großes Automatisierungsprojekt um – auf einer Fläche von fast 10.000 Quadratmetern.

Continued professional development (CPD) is key to good HR policy. Next to in-company training offers, FIEGE also relies on the specific development of skills outside of the company.

“Let’s grow! Learn & develop together” is the next-level maxim defining continued professional development at Fiege. The project initiated in 2020 with this motto aims to establish the FIEGE Academy as an international platform.

FIEGE wants to learn about its employees’ level of satisfaction as well as opinion and refers to a company-wide employee survey for this. The goal is to help identify where FIEGE is getting things right, but also unveil the potential for optimisation, and where change processes can be set into motion.

FIEGE has called to life an innovative inclusion project in Nagarole Rocca. RED: Responsabilità e diversità – Responsibility and Diversity – is the name of the project that is dedicated to the employment and inclusion of by now eleven people with disability at the Italian facility.