KNAPP, a global leader and provider of intelligent intralogistics solutions today announced a restructuring of its Atlanta based North American subsidiary board, including promotions and re-alignment of its senior management team. The re-alignment and promotions have been undertaken in response to significant market trends, major successes and growth of the subsidiary, and increased importance of the business unit to the KNAPP enterprise.
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“The only constant in today’s world is change, and in order to perform at the highest level possible on all fronts, we are taking this step to further enhance our team; adding energetic, experienced and dynamic leadership to ensure that we are well positioned for growth and success.”
Citing the reasons for the leadership changes, CEO Josef Mentzer said, “KNAPP is uniquely positioned in the global intralogistics market. Innovative and intelligent technologies, combined with a very strong commitment to the latest software technologies and strong market demand has resulted in a five year, ten-fold growth of our North American business”.
He continued, “The only constant in today’s world is change, and in order to perform at the highest level possible on all fronts, we are taking this step to further enhance our team; adding energetic, experienced and dynamic leadership to ensure that we are well positioned for growth and success.”
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The growth in importance of the North American subsidiary has been primarily driven by major account relationships and contracts with market leaders in healthcare, grocery and retail sectors. According to board member and KNAPP AG EVP Heimo Robosch, “These major, multi-site customer relationships are the result of the company investment in a very strong team and a year-over-year commitment to innovation and R&D in key growth areas – specifically including high performance eCommerce order fulfillment solutions”.
KNAPP is currently expanding service operations, scaling up its North American parts inventory, enlarging its operations team to meet the increase in market demand – and will launch a training center later this year.
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