Karen Klement becomes Head of Sales at the pfenning Group
Heddesheim, 30 April 2024
The pfenning Group has succeeded in recruiting Ms Karen Klement for the company’s sales department. With effect from 1 April 2024, the experienced logistics expert has taken over the position of Sales Manager and will be responsible for acquiring and developing new customers for the contract and transport logistics business of the full-service supply chain service provider from Heddesheim.
Thanks to her 25-year career in the logistics industry, Ms Klement brings with her extensive expertise in both contract logistics and business development. A graduate in public administration, Ms Klement began her sales career in key account management at Deutsche Post and at Fiege, where she was ultimately appointed Managing Director of a joint venture for new customer business in the “Alternative Delivery Services” division. In the years that followed, she held various management positions at renowned logistics companies such as Kühne + Nagel, Stute and Dachser, where she was responsible for regional or global business development and, most recently, strategic marketing. Here she has built up extensive expertise and a corresponding network in industry and trade. In addition to her professional activities, Ms Klement is also involved on a voluntary basis with the important BME association as a board member for the Regensburg region and the BVL logistics association as regional group spokesperson for southern Bavaria.
In her new position at the pfenning Group, Karen Klement reports to Managing Director Martin Königstein. As part of a long-term strategy, the company has expanded the nationally renowned multicube concept and, in this context, also reorganised its marketing strategy in terms of personnel. By reorganising the areas of marketing, sales, tender management and logistics management, the company is meeting the needs of market participants even more precisely with tailor-made logistics solutions. “With the arrival of Ms Klement, we are taking the next step in this strategic development and strengthening our position as a leading provider in the logistics sector. With her logistics experience and her network, she is the ideal person for this position,” says Martin Königstein, Managing Director of the pfenning Group.
“I am looking forward to my new role at the pfenning Group, where I am returning to my roots in sales and business development for contract logistics. Explaining and developing practical and future-orientated logistics solutions together with and for potential customers has always been the basis of a long-term logistics partnership for me,” adds Karen Klement.
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 service providers in Germany in the “Top 100 Logistics” study. Since May 2023, the company has been ranked 18th out of 10,000 German family businesses with 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 security and metal construction to property development. The pfenning Group is one of Germany’s leading service providers in the nationwide retail supply sector. But other sectors 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. It 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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