20 DC VELOCITY APRIL 2014 www.dcvelocity.com
newsworthy
NACCO Materials Handling Group
(NMHG), the parent company
of Hyster Co. and Yale Materials
Handling Corp., announced a corporate reorganization during last
month’s Modex 2014 show in Atlanta.
Greenville, N.C.-based NMHG said
it would focus its sales and service
offerings on meeting the material handling requirements and challenges of
end-users in specific industries and
market segments. Toward that end, the
company has created three specialized
teams: Warehouse, Counterbalance,
and Big Trucks. Jonathan Dawley
has been named president of the Big
Trucks group, and Bill Pfleger is vice
president, Counterbalance Solutions.
The leader of Warehouse Solutions has
not yet been named.
David Furman, recently appointed
president of NMHG sales, will lead
sales for all three product groups. The
Hyster and Yale sales teams will be
realigned in three North American
regions, as well as Latin America
and national accounts. According
to NMHG, the new structure will
strengthen the alignment between the
parent company and the Hyster and
Yale dealer networks.
The realignment is also intended to
create a more customer-centric, nimble, and responsive organization that
can focus on broader material handling solutions, said Chuck Pascarelli,
president of sales and marketing for
NMHG.
NMHG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling
Inc., designs, manufactures, sells, and
services lift trucks and aftermarket
parts for the Hyster, Yale, and Utilev
brands.
Kuehne + Nagel will provide a logistics solution that will help
the Irish Dairy Board expand the reach of its butter and cheeses, such as Kerrygold, Dubliner Cheese, and Pilgrim’s Choice, to
markets around the world. Also, well-known luggage company
Samsonite has awarded Kuehne + Nagel a contract for managing its warehousing and national distribution in Australia. …
RS Components has selected LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru
as the standard application for supply chain design throughout the company’s global enterprise. … Hannibal Industries’
TubeRack product has been successfully installed in the warehouses of Dean Foods, a food and beverage company, and
Saladino’s, a food-service distributor. … I.D. Systems Inc. has
received a contract from the U.S. Postal Service to upgrade and
expand the organization’s wireless vehicle management systems. I.D. Systems has also received purchase orders to deploy its
PowerFleet wireless vehicle management system on lift trucks at
multiple distribution centers of a Fortune 100 company.
alliances Hyster, Yale parent
reorganizes based
on equipment type,
end market
Gerald Perritt has been named president and CEO of
Kenco, a provider of integrated logistics solutions, real
estate services, and material handling equipment. … Mary
Adams will transition her role as CEO of the material
handling company SDI Group USA over to Krish Nathan,
the company’s current president. … Alejandro Nieto has
joined supply chain software company LLamasoft as senior
vice president of international sales. … Stan Danzig and
Jules Nissim of Cushman & Wakefield’s East Rutherford, N.J., office completed more than 3 million square feet in leasing and sales transactions
as well as 700 acres of land sales in 2013, which landed them on the
commercial real estate services firm’s list of Top 10 Industrial Producers
nationwide. … Merle Davis, president of Wynright Corp.’s Automotion
brand conveyor and sortation manufacturing division, has been elected
to the board of directors of the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers
Association. … Westfalia Technologies Inc., a provider of logistics solutions for plants, warehouses, and distribution centers, has appointed
Robert (Bob) Douglas service manager. … Penske Logistics Mexico has
named Pedro Sanchez as its sales director. … Savi Technology, a provider of sensor analytic solutions, has promoted Eric Gill to vice president,
international sales. … Paul Henningsen has been promoted to the newly
created position of chief operating officer of Henningsen Cold Storage
Co. … Jason Steinke is joining RIM logistics as executive vice president,
while Mike Powell is coming on board as vice president of technology
solutions. … Jon Fox has joined Load Delivered Logistics, a technolo-gy-enabled third-party logistics service provider in Chicago, as vice president of strategy.
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