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China Headquarters of Germany Jungheinrich Moves to the New Address, the Company Enters into a New Development Phase


SHANGHAI, May 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ Since the entrance into China market in 2004, Jungheinrich Lift Truck (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., the China headquarters of Germany Jungheinrich (ISIN Code: DE0006219934), a worldwide famous forklift manufacturer, has been experiencing a sustained and rapid growth in the past four years; the company scale has been expanding gradually. At the beginning of this year, the company moved the China headquarters to the new office building, which occupies more than 5,000 square meters, Building 12 No. 2, Suide Road, Putuo District, Shanghai, and held the grand moving ceremony in the new office on May 16th, 2008, which is the strong demonstration of quick rising and booming development of Jungheinrich in China market and the Jungheinrich Group’s favourable expectation of China market. Based upon this, Jungheinrich enters into a new phase of development in China.

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Jungheinrich’s staff in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Fuzhou and Shenzhen as well as other VIP guests such as the reporters of media and the customer representatives, totally about 280 guests, gathered together in the Olympic Games style moving ceremony titled “Spread the Passion, Drive the Future”. Ding Song, the former champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, was also invited to attend the ceremony to have the amusing interaction full of sports spirit with the guests. The VIP guests watched the video information on the growth of Jungheinrich China in the comfortable and brand new office and listened to the introduction of the history and development of Jungheinrich, by Dr. Limberg, Member of the board, Sales & Marketing, Jungheinrich AG, and Mr. Jan Willem Jongert, regional director Asia and General Manager of Jungheinrich China.

The most noteworthy news for media is the formal declaration of the new general manager appointment of Jungheinrich Lift Truck (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. -- Mr. Jan Willem Jongert. Mr. Jongert was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1964. He finished his studies as international Marketing Management at the Rotterdam Business School. Mr. Jongert has been in the forklift industry for more than 20 years and has been with Jungheinrich since 2001. Before taking on his current role as regional director Asia and GM Jungheinrich China in April, 2008, he headed as system sales, key account Manager, export manager, and regional director North & East Europe. He demonstrated excellence in management and recorded sales growth. Mr. Jan Willem Jongert also made a proposal on site of donation for Sichuan disaster area. All the attendees kept silence for 30 seconds in condolences for those who lost their lives in the disaster. These actions show the social responsibility of this German company.

In the moving ceremony, Mr. Jan Willem Jongert said, “Jungheinrich is always committed to providing the leading logistics product and technology, as well as innovative concepts to China since the entrance into Chinese market in 2004 in order to render the high-quality service to the international and local customers. The starting point of our businesses is the concern for the customers’ production equipment, logistics and warehousing, as well as the reduction of their logistics cost. We wish to hand in hand with the counterparts of the industry to further the prosperous development of the technology in Chinese market. Meanwhile, Jungheinrich is full of confidence in the future logistics market in China.”

The Jungheinrich Group set up its direct sales company Jungheinrich Lift Truck (Shanghai) Co Ltd in July 2004, headquartered in Shanghai and since then, has established subsidiaries in Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Qingdao, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Fuzhou and Shenzhen. By using its successful European market experience to offer a range of solutions and equipment adapted to the needs of the Chinese Logistics market, Jungheinrich has been gradually enhanced its direct-sales network all over the whole of China in the past three years. In rendering the first-class products and services to the comprehensive users, Jungheinrich, as the production-based logistics service provider, pays more attention to providing tailor-made logistics solutions and implementing such solutions as the integrated service provider. Adhering to Chinese market-based development direction in the aspect of the product, Jungheinrich enhances both the high-end fields such as top warehousing market and the domestic production of trucks. The company, for example, plans to set up additional product lines in Qingpu Shanghai within next 2 years. All these strategic guidelines will make Jungheinrich quickly become the critical and outstanding role of Chinese market.

About Jungheinrich

Established in 1953 and headquartered in Hamburger Germany, Jungheinrich ranks among the leading international companies in the material handling equipments; warehousing and logistics technology sectors. Since the entrance into Chinese market in July 2004, Jungheinrich always provides the tailor-made logistics and materials handling equipment solutions of Chinese enterprises including forklift, shelf system and intralogistics integration. The Jungheinrich shares are traded on all German stock exchanges.

Source: Jungheinrich Lift Truck (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Keywords: Transportation
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