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Human resources development
Personnel development
Start of a phase of renewal
Evolving, growing, changing: companies need to constantly reinvent themselves to survive in international competition.
In service sectors such as logistics, this is primarily the job of bright minds and talented people who manage the necessary change processes with expertise, passion and determination.
The coronavirus pandemic has put the need for new forms of work and cooperation in our business to the test in a special way. We are in fact today at a point where 100 per cent of our workforce can work on a mobile basis through our company‘s digital infrastructure.
Numerous measures that a. hartrodt has been investing in for years are now paying off. Offering employees an attractive working environment and individual training opportunities, showing our trust and appreciation and nurturing an open, communicative corporate culture are all part of our forward looking human resources management.
We rely on modern recruitment concepts to gain skilled, highly qualified candidates for our company. We can also be found at career fairs and work closely together with schools, vocatio nal colleges and universities. Nevertheless, the crisis is also having an impact on the development of key figures in human resources. For example, the headcount fell slightly in 2020 compared with the previous year to 1,971 due to the order situation (previous year: 2,063).
The appointment of Felix Wenzel to a. hartrodt’s senior management set the direction in a significant way. He took on the role from his father, Andreas Wenzel, who retired in mid2021 after a career spanning 43 years. Felix Wenzel is the fifth generation of the founding family to share responsi bility at the helm of the company.
The father of two brings international management experience to the table. After his training in Hamburg to become a forwar ding agent, Felix Wenzel studied business management and logistics in England. He completed his bachelor‘s degree with distinction and then joined a. hartrodt Australia. He worked in Melbourne for four years – first as an operations manager, later as a sales and business development manager. In July 2018, he became Managing Director for Malaysia and remained in Selangor until the end of 2020.
Together with Jan van Tienhoven, Felix Wenzel (35) is pursuing local and regional growth as well as stronger cross regional networking. He has taken over responsibility for
the Far East, Oceania and Western/Southern Europe from Andreas Wenzel. Jan van Tienhoven is responsible for North and South America, and the two together are responsible for Germany/Eastern Europe.
Development of the number of employees
Year
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
FTE* concern
808 1,041 1,440 2,005 1,971
America region
82
78 138 230 247
Europe region
348 453 606 738 728
Africa region
70 78 79 68 29
Asia region
185 251 431 783 797
Oceania region
123 181 186 186 170
* FTE = fulltime equivalent
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