& co. kg type limited partnership gmbh & co. kg industry logistics founded 1 . may 1852 key people philip w. herwig hans ludger k rner ulrike baum jan skovgaard thomas hansen hylton gray revenue 547 mio . 2013 number of employees 2585 2013 consolidated 2048 2013 group website http www.rohlig.com r hlig is a global logistics provider with a network of more than 2 000 people in over 30 countries . established in 1852 and based in bremen the company s core business is sea freight air freight project logistics and supply chain management . contents 1 history 1.1 1852 to 1890 1.2 1890 to 1960 1.3 since 1960 2 strategy 3 literature 4 external links history edit 1852 to 1890 edit carl r hlig r hlig was initially set up by businessman carl r hlig on 1 may 1852 in bremen as a tobacco and insurance company . shipping and freight operations commenced in 1859 . as industrialisation free trade and steam ships took hold the company grew . when carl r hlig died in 1886 his sons oskar and eduard took over continuing to expand business operations in north america throughout the 1880s . branch offices soon opened in hamburg bremerhaven and overseas . 1890 to 1960 edit sea freight project logistics headquarter haus am fluss as computer simulation karl herwig oskar r hlig s son in law and great uncle of the current owner took over the company in 1913 . the shipping industry changed rapidly with the transportation of bulk goods . oskar and eduard r hlig died in 1929 and 1930 respectively . the company was destroyed in world war ii . in the 1950s and 60s karl herwig and his partner adolf backhus rebuilt the international sea freight forwarding business . in 1956 the sons oscar herwig and walther backhus took over the management of the company together with hans h. schackow . since 1960 edit the company branched out into a second line of business with intercontinental air freight . representative offices were opened in 1963 in johannesburg and in 1973 in sydney . karl herwig died in 1964 . his son oscar managed the business from hamburg together with his partner hans h. schackow in bremen until the 1980s . hans h. schackow died in 1985 followed by consul oscar herwig in 1997 . thomas w. herwig became the fifth generation to take over the business in 1985 setting up branch offices in places such as poland hong kong singapore france italy and spain . new locations in india north and south america as well as asia were subsequently added to the network . in 2011 the firm increased its presence in latin america by taking over its long term partner procargo . nowadays r hlig s network covers more than 2 000 people in over 30 countries . in january 2015 thomas w. herwig handed over the management to his son philip w. herwig . he heads the global executive board that manages the company from their sites in bremen miami hong kong as well as johannesburg . the company has been headquartered in the haus am fluss in bremen since 2009 . strategy edit r hlig operates with three year strategies . previous strategies were the intensification of its core competencies namely sea and air freight the establishment of project s logistics as new concentration the expansion and implementation of modern it tools and the increased significance of customer relationship management . the current strategy titled directions 2018 focuses on the development of next generation businesses to further support the different methods used by its partners in order for the partner to become market leader . literature edit florian langenscheidt peter may publisher deutsche standards aus bester familie . second revised edition deutsche standards editionen cologne 2011 . wfb wirtschaftsf rderung bremen gmbh publisher business directory maritime industries logistics in the federal state of bremen . bremen 2012 . external links edit official r hlig website weiss r hlig r hlig grindrod retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title r hlig logistics & oldid 740439581 categories companies established in 1852logistics companies of germany1852 establishments in bremen1852 establishments in germanyhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 21 september 2016 at 02 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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