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The GEFCO group
A major, global, effective, responsible player
A major name in industrial and automotive logistics, GEFCO provides complete and efficient logistics solutions for its industrial customers throughout the world. Leading the path in combining high quality and efficient standards with responsible management of its logistics activities, GEFCO drives its business complying with cutting edge requirements regarding sustainable development.
A strategy driven by four key objectives
An ambitious corporate plan sets out the Group's Vision for the next ten years. GEFCO focuses its strategic project on satisfying its industrial customers, centred around four strong key objectives:
MAJOR: GEFCO aims to consolidate its leading position in automotive logistics and become a benchmark in industrial logistics.
GLOBAL: GEFCO is constantly widening its geographical coverage to support its industrial customers worldwide.
EFFECTIVE: In all sectors of industry, GEFCO offers innovative and effective complete solutions to optimize its customers' logistics flows.
RESPONSIBLE: GEFCO tends to develop its activities while keeping a stable ecological footprint and involves its staff and partners in the respect of people and the environment.
"Your supply chain is now more valuable than ever before"
To display its supply chain expertise worldwide, GEFCO regularly launches new advertising campaigns.
Reflecting the group’s strategy, the slogan "Your supply chain has never been so valuable", illustrates GEFCO’s commitment to creating value for its industrial customers by optimizing their supply chain.
Several animated banners and a film entitled “The Masterpiece” feature the GEFCO brand in an original way...
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Industrial customers at the core of GEFCO’s strategy
GEFCO launched a business website showcasing its innovative logistics solutions. Five videos show how GEFCO helps industrials to:
- Increase the competitiveness of the production chain;
- Optimise product distribution;
- Improve the level of service;
- Reduce the logistics cost of spare parts;
- Measure the performance of the supply chain.
2010 results
In 2010, the GEFCO group recorded a €3,351 million turnover, a 16% increase from 2009. Operating income came to €198 million, or 5.9% turnover. While pursuing its historical support to the automobile industry, GEFCO deploys a profitable growth strategy in industry and expends each year its sector-based diversification involvement. This effort concretized a €1,217 million turnover increase in 2010 realized with major industrials, up 16.3% year on year.
An expanding worldwide presence
Achieving 77% of its growth outside France this year, GEFCO confirms its ambition to prioritize international developmentin fast-growing geographical zones: +63% in South America, +38% in Central and Eastern Europe and +41% in the Mediterranean countries and in China. In 2011 GEFCO increases its expansion in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia, by reinforcing its activities in China and establishing presence in India.
Supported by 9,400 employees worldwide, GEFCO operates 29 subsidiaries:
- Western Europe: Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK
- Central and Eastern Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine
- North Africa: Morocco and Tunisia
- Asia: China, Hong Kong, India
- South America: Argentina, Brazil and Chile
