SBS Worldwide Announce Lars Kloch as CEO – Freight Division

London, 18 March 2013

As part of its global growth strategy SBS Worldwide has promoted their USA CEO Lars Kloch to CEO - Freight Division, expanding his existing US role to take responsibility of their global freight operations.

Kloch takes up the role with immediate effect and will become responsible for developing SBS Worldwide's global freight product offering, both nationally and internationally.

SBS Worldwide Group Chairman, Steve Walker, said; "We are delighted to announce Lars as CEO - Freight Division. His experience on a global level places him perfectly to further grow SBS Worldwide in an ever competitive market place."

Lars Kloch added: "This is a wonderful opportunity to further grow SBS Worldwide across its businesses operations. I know we have great teams working for us globally and I'm looking forward to meeting everybody and excited at the prospects of what we can achieve together."

Lars started his career at Dan Transport in Denmark (now DSV) and went on to work at Exel Global Logistics before  moving to the US in 2004 where he held various senior sales, operations and supply chain solutions positions, including managing the global account manager team at Geodis Wilson.

From there Lars joined SBS Worldwide in January 2010 as Managing Director and in October 2012 became US CEO. 

Notes to Editors

About SBS Worldwide

SBS Worldwide offers global freight forwarding and supply chain solutions to clients around the world. It has an established reputation for reliability, innovation and leading-edge solutions, helping to drive costs out of its customers' international supply chains. SBS's consultancy division, Virtualized Logistics, offers clients an in-depth review of their supply chains as well as state of the art visibility systems and management information. A privately-owned British company set up nearly 30 years ago, SBS Worldwide is headquartered in the UK, has offices across the US and China and has partners throughout the world. SBS Worldwide was named Freight Forwarder of the Year at IFW's Freight Industry Awards 2010 and won the BIFA Ocean Freight Award in the same year.

Mission Statement

"SBS Worldwide's central tenet is to ensure that its operations provide the highest quality of Freight and Supply Chain services throughout our privately owned company.

"We will ensure that our customers' expectations will be delivered by providing the highest quality of service appropriate for each market segment served through our focused business units.

"We will develop mutually rewarding relationships with our employees, partners and suppliers beyond their expectations.

"Safety and compliance is the first consideration in all our operations.

"All of our corporate activities will be conducted to the highest ethical and professional standards."

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